“L&D teams need to focus on impact that justifies investment”

Interview of the Day: “L&D teams need to focus on impact that justifies investment”

Raghavendra K, Vice President and Head HR, Infosys BPO

How can companies increase learning and development effectiveness with decreased budgets during a slowdown? 

Amongst the many approaches, a couple of areas where LD effectiveness has been enhanced is the focus on digitisation and proper vendor management.  Where ROI is something which is increasingly being asked for, everyone is looking at cutting costs. The need is to additionally look at impact and outcomes which justifies the investment and this is something the L&D team needs to be conscious of. Based on outcomes, more often than not, it is the people in operations who then become the advocates for additional investments in employee development. There has to be a strong belief and conviction that our employees are our real assets and we need to invest in them to get returns. While developing and firming up the training calendar and interventions the L&D would need to dovetail and prioritize the offerings based on the business need and availability of budgets. The focus has to be on offerings and interventions which will have maximum impact on both the top/ bottom line of the organisation.

What should LD professionals keep in mind?

In order to meet the growing demands of the market and budget constraints, knowledge professionals have to constantly create, innovate and produce learning experiences to help build tomorrow’s enterprises. Today Infosys BPO has translated the L&D expertise into various training programs to create a talent pipeline for the entire Industry. We have taken learning and development outside the confines of the organization and across global borders to build human capabilities. As part of this strategic capability building, collaborating with the experts and leveraging on their experience and expertise organizations should look at different approaches to institutionalize and be ahead of the curve with respect to learning processes and its life cycle. Recently, Infosys BPO and the American Society for Learning & Development joined hands to host L&D Insights Summit where over 150 CLOs and L&D professionals participated. In this learning conference, experts reflected the current L&D trends, the future of L&D, the significance of linking learning to business and valuable knowledge sharing.

How can operations managers be convinced of the ‘ROI’ of LD initiatives during a downturn?

It is important to get buy-in from operations managers for the LD initiatives. In our organisation, we have a ‘Training Council’ which comprises of operations managers who endorse and ensure implementation of new learning initiatives. The council develops the Training Road Map that aligns with meeting the customer’s requirement. Involving the folks from operations and line into decision making provides the required buy-in. We also measure the training effectiveness using the Kirk Patrick model up to level 3 and assess the impact of delta in behaviour and capability.

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5 things to eat to lose weight

5 things to eat to lose weight

Stop worrying about your weight, just eat right. Here are five tips you need to keep in mind.

Have a healthy breakfast
The cardinal rule to any weight loss programme is never to miss breakfast. And oatmeal, a complex carbohydrate is ideal. It is a satisfying breakfast cereal, and compared to any other grain it provides more protein per serving. The fact that it takes longer to digest and hence releases energy slowly makes it perfect because you feel full for longer. Oats also keep blood sugar and insulin levels stable, which helps prevent fat storage. Have it with skimmed milk or yogurt.

Opt for skimmed milk
Milk and its products are rich in calcium and can help keep your bones strong. Skimmed milk, low fat cheese and yogurt helps to break down fat cells.

Bean it
Foods that are high in fibre and are good sources of protein, can help you feel full for a very long time. And that, will help you control unnecessary bingeing. Protein has a very high satiety index and that is why make proteins an essential part of your meals.

Go for the grain
Grains have complex carbohydrates which during digestion release glucose slowly. Jowar, bajra and ragi etc can help in maintaining your blood sugars levels. The fibre and vitamins in them play an important role too.

Snack on nuts through the day
Stay away from fried and salted nuts but you can munch on raw, unsalted ones — almonds, and walnuts. These have essential roughage, protein, fat, minerals and micronutrient.
A handful can keep hunger at bay and provide energy.

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Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates.

Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates.

A poor job market should logically have had a knock-on effect on B-school preplacement offers (PPOs). But no, these are actually thriving, even at non-IIMs.

It seems counter-intuitive but the worse the market, better the PPO offers to students. Also, PPOs have become a key hiring strategy for companies that would rather avoid the intense scramble for talent in the few final placement days.

With companies such as Citibank, Wipro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Philips, among others, increasingly using the PPO route to pick candidates, this is reflecting in a flurry of such offers at leading B-schools.

XLRI, XIM, MDI-Gurgaon, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,TAPMI and IMI are all confident of surpassing last year’s numbers.

It’s a similar situation at the Indian Institutes of Management, with IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Lucknow and IIM-Bangalore witnessing a big surge in PPOs.

Companies feel PPOs are more efficient and cost-effective, besides being a win-win situation as candidates also get the opportunity to see whether a company is the right fit for them.

“I am personally a great fan of PPOs because instead of trying to gauge a candidate from a 40-60 minute sort of interview, it is far better to have them immersed in the system for 8-10 weeks, and see how they function,” said Pratik Kumar, executive vice-president for human resources at Wipro.

PPOs are made by companies to students who have interned with them based on performance, and generally result in a firm job offer. Summer interns are among the preferred profiles of students recommended for hiring for full-time management associate positions, said Anuranjita Kumar, country HR officer, Citi India. The twomonth stint provides an opportunity to assess work ethic and values, she said.

Citi has already awarded seven PPOs to students from XLRI, JBIMS, MDI, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Faculty of Management Studies. “About 60% associates of the 2013 batch at Citi were hired through the summer internship channel,” Kumar said.

Top institutes are reaping the dividends. MDI-Gurgaon has already received 52 PPOs till now from the likes of Deloitte, P&G, Coca-Cola, Reckitt Benckiser, Mahindra & Mahindra, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. That’s 27% up from the 41 PPOs it received in the whole of last year. It is expecting a 10-20% jump in remuneration. “The increasing number of PPOs showcases the fact that companies are realising the investments that incur on training the students for two months,” said Kanwal Kapil, chairperson-placements, MDI-Gurgaon.

TAPMI has received 12 PPOs already, compared with seven last year, and is confident there are more in the works. XIM-Bhubaneswar has nearly 40, with the highest salary offered being Rs 18.25 lakh.

Students at XLRI-Jamshedpur have got 41 PPOs and 27 PPIs (preplacement interviews), with offers ranging from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 22 lakh. Last year’s total PPO count was 72. ABG, Asian Paints, BCG, Capgemini, Cisco, Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, DBS, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Philips and Tata Administrative Services are among those who have made PPOs at XLRI. IMI, which had 17 PPOs last year, has got 12 offers this time. “We should be getting at least 24 by December,” said Irfan A Rizvi, dean-corporate and alumni relations, IMI.

JBIMS has received 25 PPOs and PPIs so far and is confident of surpassing last year’s tally of 55 by December. Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management, which had its first batch going for summer internships this year, has around 10 offers already.

Debashis Sanyal, dean at NMIMS, confirmed that PPOs are turning out to be the favoured recruiting method for companies, with 85 offers in the bag.

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Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates

Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates.

A poor job market should logically have had a knock-on effect on B-school preplacement offers (PPOs). But no, these are actually thriving, even at non-IIMs.

It seems counter-intuitive but the worse the market, better the PPO offers to students. Also, PPOs have become a key hiring strategy for companies that would rather avoid the intense scramble for talent in the few final placement days.

With companies such as Citibank, Wipro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Philips, among others, increasingly using the PPO route to pick candidates, this is reflecting in a flurry of such offers at leading B-schools.

XLRI, XIM, MDI-Gurgaon, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,TAPMI and IMI are all confident of surpassing last year’s numbers.

It’s a similar situation at the Indian Institutes of Management, with IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Lucknow and IIM-Bangalore witnessing a big surge in PPOs.

Companies feel PPOs are more efficient and cost-effective, besides being a win-win situation as candidates also get the opportunity to see whether a company is the right fit for them.

“I am personally a great fan of PPOs because instead of trying to gauge a candidate from a 40-60 minute sort of interview, it is far better to have them immersed in the system for 8-10 weeks, and see how they function,” said Pratik Kumar, executive vice-president for human resources at Wipro.

PPOs are made by companies to students who have interned with them based on performance, and generally result in a firm job offer. Summer interns are among the preferred profiles of students recommended for hiring for full-time management associate positions, said Anuranjita Kumar, country HR officer, Citi India. The twomonth stint provides an opportunity to assess work ethic and values, she said.

Citi has already awarded seven PPOs to students from XLRI, JBIMS, MDI, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Faculty of Management Studies. “About 60% associates of the 2013 batch at Citi were hired through the summer internship channel,” Kumar said.

Top institutes are reaping the dividends. MDI-Gurgaon has already received 52 PPOs till now from the likes of Deloitte, P&G, Coca-Cola, Reckitt Benckiser, Mahindra & Mahindra, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. That’s 27% up from the 41 PPOs it received in the whole of last year. It is expecting a 10-20% jump in remuneration. “The increasing number of PPOs showcases the fact that companies are realising the investments that incur on training the students for two months,” said Kanwal Kapil, chairperson-placements, MDI-Gurgaon.

TAPMI has received 12 PPOs already, compared with seven last year, and is confident there are more in the works. XIM-Bhubaneswar has nearly 40, with the highest salary offered being Rs 18.25 lakh.

Students at XLRI-Jamshedpur have got 41 PPOs and 27 PPIs (preplacement interviews), with offers ranging from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 22 lakh. Last year’s total PPO count was 72. ABG, Asian Paints, BCG, Capgemini, Cisco, Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, DBS, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Philips and Tata Administrative Services are among those who have made PPOs at XLRI. IMI, which had 17 PPOs last year, has got 12 offers this time. “We should be getting at least 24 by December,” said Irfan A Rizvi, dean-corporate and alumni relations, IMI.

JBIMS has received 25 PPOs and PPIs so far and is confident of surpassing last year’s tally of 55 by December. Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management, which had its first batch going for summer internships this year, has around 10 offers already.

Debashis Sanyal, dean at NMIMS, confirmed that PPOs are turning out to be the favoured recruiting method for companies, with 85 offers in the bag.

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Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates

Boom time for PPOs as Citibank, Wipro, M&M, Philips, others use the route to pick candidates.

A poor job market should logically have had a knock-on effect on B-school preplacement offers (PPOs). But no, these are actually thriving, even at non-IIMs.

It seems counter-intuitive but the worse the market, better the PPO offers to students. Also, PPOs have become a key hiring strategy for companies that would rather avoid the intense scramble for talent in the few final placement days.

With companies such as Citibank, Wipro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Philips, among others, increasingly using the PPO route to pick candidates, this is reflecting in a flurry of such offers at leading B-schools.

XLRI, XIM, MDI-Gurgaon, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,TAPMI and IMI are all confident of surpassing last year’s numbers.

It’s a similar situation at the Indian Institutes of Management, with IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Lucknow and IIM-Bangalore witnessing a big surge in PPOs.

Companies feel PPOs are more efficient and cost-effective, besides being a win-win situation as candidates also get the opportunity to see whether a company is the right fit for them.

“I am personally a great fan of PPOs because instead of trying to gauge a candidate from a 40-60 minute sort of interview, it is far better to have them immersed in the system for 8-10 weeks, and see how they function,” said Pratik Kumar, executive vice-president for human resources at Wipro.

PPOs are made by companies to students who have interned with them based on performance, and generally result in a firm job offer. Summer interns are among the preferred profiles of students recommended for hiring for full-time management associate positions, said Anuranjita Kumar, country HR officer, Citi India. The twomonth stint provides an opportunity to assess work ethic and values, she said.

Citi has already awarded seven PPOs to students from XLRI, JBIMS, MDI, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Faculty of Management Studies. “About 60% associates of the 2013 batch at Citi were hired through the summer internship channel,” Kumar said.

Top institutes are reaping the dividends. MDI-Gurgaon has already received 52 PPOs till now from the likes of Deloitte, P&G, Coca-Cola, Reckitt Benckiser, Mahindra & Mahindra, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. That’s 27% up from the 41 PPOs it received in the whole of last year. It is expecting a 10-20% jump in remuneration. “The increasing number of PPOs showcases the fact that companies are realising the investments that incur on training the students for two months,” said Kanwal Kapil, chairperson-placements, MDI-Gurgaon.

TAPMI has received 12 PPOs already, compared with seven last year, and is confident there are more in the works. XIM-Bhubaneswar has nearly 40, with the highest salary offered being Rs 18.25 lakh.

Students at XLRI-Jamshedpur have got 41 PPOs and 27 PPIs (preplacement interviews), with offers ranging from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 22 lakh. Last year’s total PPO count was 72. ABG, Asian Paints, BCG, Capgemini, Cisco, Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, DBS, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Philips and Tata Administrative Services are among those who have made PPOs at XLRI. IMI, which had 17 PPOs last year, has got 12 offers this time. “We should be getting at least 24 by December,” said Irfan A Rizvi, dean-corporate and alumni relations, IMI.

JBIMS has received 25 PPOs and PPIs so far and is confident of surpassing last year’s tally of 55 by December. Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management, which had its first batch going for summer internships this year, has around 10 offers already.

Debashis Sanyal, dean at NMIMS, confirmed that PPOs are turning out to be the favoured recruiting method for companies, with 85 offers in the bag.

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Mumbai start-up Wonobo takes on Google, on the street!

Wonobo.com, owned by little-known Genesys International, has captured a 360-degree view of the city roads.

In its two-year journey since ideation, a dozen data-collecting vehicles of Wonobo.com have traversed as much as 150,000 km scanning the major cities in the country to launch an indigenous ‘street view’ service on the lines of Google’s offering.
Wonobo.com, owned by little-known Genesys International, has captured a 360-degree view of the city roads, including the narrowest bylanes, amid a plethora of regulations and rising concerns over privacy.
“The defence ministry is the nodal agency that clears the imagery. Due to the obvious concerns, there are some no-go areas but others they are fine with this,” says Sajid Malik, head and founder of the city-based Genesys International.
Malik, who has been in the mapping industry for over two decades, feels that there is a market for offering a 360- degree street views, which is created by sewing up multiple images taken by cameras fitted on vehicles.
He roped in Zaki Ansari, whose resume includes being part of the launch team of Rediff.com from a small south Mumbai apartment when the Internet was in its infancy, to spin a easy-to-use and consumer-friendly product.
After putting in about USD 35 million, long trips, mixed experiences and tens of zillion bytes of data, the duo launched Wonobo.com a fortnight back.
It can be noted that search engine giant Google is yet to launch its street view application in the country and is reportedly yet to get all the regulatory go-aheads.
Google Street View was launched in May 2007, in several cities in the US, and has since then expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide.
Ansari, however, dismissed the comparisons with Google. Wonobo possesses a host of features that makes it useful from a city chronicling and also civic administration perspective, apart from empowering a person to indulge in a virtual tour of a place sitting anywhere in the world, he said.
“Suppose there is a pothole on the road. You can click a picture of it and pin it on the actual location on the website. A civic official sitting anywhere can access the same imagery and take action,” he explained.



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LG throws open its door-in-door fridge lineup

 

LG must have had a lot of success with its current door-in-door refrigerator models, because the company just introduced three more to the lineup. If you don't already know, LG offers the door-in-door design on select French door models, and it's basically a special storage space contained within the right refrigerator door. This compartment is magnetically sealed and allows you to access that area with the push of a button without having to open the whole fridge. This easy-access design is ideal for your very favorite fridge items. And the good news is that all three of these new models will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

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LG LFX32945ST

Price:$3,699.99
Total capacity: 32 cubic feet
Refrigerator capacity: 21.5 cubic feet
Freezer capacity: 10.5 cubic feet
Door type: French 3-door
Dimensions (WxHxD): 35.75x70.25x37.125 inches
That $3,699.99 may seem like a hefty price for a fridge, but a 32-cubic-foot capacity is kind of unheard of in the French door world. Need to feed a (very) large family? LG's LFX32945ST might be your solution.

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LG LMX30995ST

Price: $3,699.99
Total capacity: 30.3 cubic feet
Refrigerator capacity: 20.5 cubic feet
Freezer capacity: 9.8 cubic feet
Door Type: French 4-door
Dimensions (WxHxD): 35.75x70.25x36.25 inches
Here's another $3,699.99 model with a slightly smaller internal capacity of 30.3 cubic feet. This model stands out because it offers four doors rather than three. That's two different freezer drawers for optimal organizing.

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LG LFX29945ST

Price:$3,199.99
Total capacity:29.2 cubic feet
Refrigerator capacity: 19.4 cubic feet
Freezer capacity: 9.6 cubic feet
Door type: French 3-door
Dimensions (WxHxD): 35.75x70.25x35.25 inches
This $3,199.99 model may be a little shorter on storage space at 29.2 cubic feet. But what it doesn't have in capacity, it makes up for in ice makers. Yep, it comes with dual ice makers. So if you regularly entertain a whole bunch of people, you probably won't run out of ice with the LFX29945ST.


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