http://blog.ephlux.com Gear up to Enterprise Agility! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:28:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Self assessment has a lot of significance. It helps in identifying the direction one is heading towards. We are usually keen in seeking other’s feedback on our work but we somehow forget the importance of self assessment that can be very useful indeed to raise one’s own performance standards. It ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/09/significance-of-self-assessment-2/ Taking short vacations from hectic work schedule once or twice a year is an important necessity. A person at work faces loads of challenges almost every day and strives to perform better and better which can increase the stress level. Therefore, short vacations or break from work is an effective way ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/08/value-of-vacations/ Tightening IT budgets and the rise of the cloud are converging to form a critical juncture for the enterprise architect. At this moment, enterprise architects have a unique chance to usher in concepts like business architecture and fine-tune business agility. Will they make progress or squander the opportunity? The economy's grip on ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/08/enterprise-architecture-vast-promise-or-lost-opportunity/ We all require admiration for the efforts we put into our work. It is important for anyone to know which direction one is heading towards. Furthermore, it is always useful to get rapid feedbacks, not only from your supervisors but more importantly from your peers and subordinates (who can liberally ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/08/importance-of-appreciation-at-workplace/ Peace. We've all had our fair share of discussions about the benefits of the Internet. Messengers, email, social media networks, VoIP, video conferencing, publishing, information access and the like. What we seldom discuss, however, is the other side of the coin. Just how safe is our virtual presence, and all our ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/internet-privacy/ This is usually observed that most of the companies don’t permit to appoint siblings/spouses or other members belonging to the same family especially within the same department. The possible reason could be to avoid any chances of conflicts, favoritism and grouping in the office which can have a negative impact ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/recruiting-members-of-the-same-family/ If online reports are to be believed, Google could be cooking up a rival for Facebook -- and bringing the maker of popular social games like "FarmVille" with them. Google Games, built around some sort of partnership with casual-gaming company Zynga, is in the works and would be part of a ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/google-zynga-teaming-up-to-take-on-facebook/ Linux is easy to learn, highly capable of fulfilling a typical computer user's needs, and 100 percent free. So why is it that Linux still has such a miniscule share of the overall desktop market? Maybe its gratis nature has been keeping it down. It seems that when consumers don't ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/linux-doesnt-cost-anything-but-should-it/ Peace everyone. Today is SNM day - where we find out just how much heat social networks are packing. Most of my IM projects get more traffic from social network propagation than they do from search engines these days. It is safe to say that SNM (social network marketing) is giving ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/social-network-marketing/ Socialization/interaction helps in adopting new scenarios at work. Particularly in an employment setting, when an employee gets into a new environment, he/she needs to make few adjustments. As a result, an individual must be adaptive towards his/her workforce, environment and management because different sets of performance standards are required to ... http://blog.ephlux.com/index.php/2010/07/socialization-at-work-recruits/