Fr.Thomas More CMI

Have you heard of Fr.Thomas More CMI. A catholic priest, a social reformer, thought provoking speaker and a simple human being who loved the peasants and farmers of kuttanadu, the rice bowl of Kerala. Fr.Thomas more passed away an year ago. Kuttanadu Catholic Association and Kuttanad Integral development Society, two of the many associations nurtured by Fr.Thomas More, has released a memoir on him on the first death anniversary gathering at the Darsanapuram model village created by him.

This 114 page booklet has several articles including one written by me on page 108/109. If you would like to read, please use the following link.

http://issuu.com/karikkampallilfamily/docs/suvachanam_final_01/1

My thoughts on next big thing is software and IT industry

Dear Friend,

Some fundamental questions in software based application systems were never got me any answers.

One of them is - Why should any customer need to buy software like a garden, when they only need a flower? Most of you who have spent time in implementing systems would have surely felt the unnecessary usage of time, resources and efforts during the phase of implementation. Software systems take too long to implement in an enterprise and comprises of a huge quantum of wasted efforts in comparison with the finite results aimed which are seldom achieved completely. The reason for the IT industry does not often deliver what is expected is debated is attributed to many aspects including process, people, technology etc. and many more. My belief is that the main reason is in my question. The customer wants a flower, but the industry is offering him a garden, sometimes a forest itself. The industry convinces the customer that you cannot get a flower unless you have your garden, which appears logical to the customer. The customer also feels comfortable being in the community of other customers who have similar gardens.

If we have to make good applications, which is precisely providing end result as required by a customer, it is important that the customer should be able to demand what he needs and there should be technical capability and subject matter knowledge available in the industry to deliver the needs. The concept that I would like to evangalise under the name "Subscriber Computing" is covering the various aspects that could potentialy be the next evolution in the industry.

I have been talking to variety of professionals over last 6 months about this subject and made notes of what they feel about the Subscriber Computing approch. I have recieved seveal creative critisism which helped me refine my thoughts. All these collective thoughts have been put into an eBook form and published for you. You can download the eBook and read it on your PC, iPad, tablet or even on your smartphones. I have avoided printing the book so that  I can keep the cost of making the book available at a bare minimum.

The title of this book is "Subscriber Computing: Divergence of Application software development from Software engineering".

You may download this eBook at http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/subscriber-computing-divergence-of-application-development-from-software-engineering/18829729

Kindly forward this to people who are in your contact list about the book and join me in evangelising the concept of the next big step in software industry.

Please give me your feed back either by an email to me at gtk918@gmail.com or visiting my blog site at http://gtk918.blogspot.com/ Your comments are very valuable in improving the concept and making an impact with it in the industry.

Thanking you,
Sincerely Yours,
George Thomas

At last the leaders in Kerala are talking something for the people

I have written earlier in this blog about the inertness by the leadership on the Mullperiyar dam. Finally, the leaders have woken up, thanks to Minister PJ Joseph. His remarks in public followed by a public uproar has made everyone to react to it.

It is now the turn of Central government and the Judicial institutions to listen to the worried millions of people in the state. People in Tamil Nadu and their leadership has to understand that by supporting the safety requirements of 3.5 million people in Kerala, they are not going to loose even one drop of water. Instead they will gain goodwill in the state. Hope wisdom prevail.

Project management success mantra

Be in control as a leader but never behave like a boss,

Enhance knowledge with Subject matter Experts,

Do not enter when exit is not clear,

Depend on God but never ignore Numbers and Dates,

Believe that Quality is a culture and

none would be proud to produce sub-standard results,

Measure all possible downfalls,

An effective communication would be your key to success,

Break it into smaller meaningful blocks,

Plan it macro and then plan it micro,

Review review review always while in execution.

Mulla periyar can be the largest dissaster world has ever experienced

I read a note written by a person on facebook about MullaPeriyarDam, which inspired me to write these words here.

Those who do not know the context, MullaPeriyarDam is a large reservoir situated in the Kerala Tamilnadu state border which has exceeded its life expectancy and still holding water at dangerous levels to supply water to Tamilnadu State primarily. While this water is essential for agriculture and other requirements in Tamilnadu, the reservoir is reported by many knowledgable people that it might not survive for long. Any collapse of the reservoir will wipe a few districts in Kerala and could lead to the death of millions of people in Kerala.

Kerala has a funny polical balance (or imbalance) between the 2 alliances namely UDF and LDF. Every 5 years the opposition alliance switch over to become the ruling party. Both the alliance parties are very thick headed and quite irresponsible to the people of the state. Politians in Kerala treats people as votebanks that has to be maniputed for their benefits. They are too pre-occupied with their own internal politics and intra party politics. It is a pitty, but the reality of the situation in Kerala is that there is a complete absence of a committed leadership in Kerala. A subject of grave importance such as risk of millions of people's life is just another subject for them of average importance.

Hope the national leadership would take note of this risk and quickly do someting about it. At least consider that there is a risk of loosing a million votes(that is the only risk politicians and political party takes up as their own problem). It is our parents, brothers, sisters and children who are living under the threat of MullaPeriyarDam. We have equal right of living safely as much as the people on the other side of the Sahya moutain range.

Information technology in Healthcare, baby steps today....on fast track growth.

From mid 1980s, I have seen a evolution of systems and adapation of these by verical industries. Some industries embrased IT faster than others and very few have not even indulged at all. As we all know banks,telcos etc. have a very high degree of usage, which is to the extend, without very high dependency on information technology their business cannot be conducted or progressed in today's world. Manufacturing, Retail, Government and many others have moderte consumption of IT systems, but the IT in these areas is steadily increasing its footprint.

One of the industry which has very little or no IT penetration was Healthcare. Healthcare, though was a heavy consumer of healthcare technology innovations in the field of pathology, radiaology, invasive or other forms of eqipments etc. was reluctant in moving fast in adapting information technology. It appreas to me that the trend of IT consumption in the healthcare industry is changing a lot. Certainly the wave started in the western world but now it is reaching the shores of Asian countries. There are some African countries are also following the pursuit.

Healthcare industry and its associated industries such as health insurance industry, pharmacuetical reasearch and manufacturing industry, bio-medical equipment, clinical and other consumables industry etc. form a large slice of global economy. I would think that what is possible in this industry strata is minimally explored and the possibilities are unlimited and c be compared to that of financial services industry. As we can see in financial services industry utilises IT capabilities to address every aspect such as the traditional banking transactions and others like the internet based, ATM/CDM based, mobile based etc. In additional, it uses information technology for risk management, channel management, automation of every internal processes, fraud detection, compliance reporting etc.etc. are some of the examples. Like this, healtcare industry could slowly cover hugely and increase the quality of care and coverage.

My Home state, Kerala - No way it is God's own country !!! Hmm !!

We get what we deserve - So we need to change what we deserve.

For years we kept saying that the leadership of our state doesn't have the vision and hence the situation in Kerala is not going to improve. We blamed corruption, we blamed the strikes conducted by all policals parties....we blamed everything.... Except blaming ourselves. We believe that it is our fate and we accepted that as statusquo. Hence we are a community in comma.

My fellow keralites, please don't get me wrong. I am not talking about changing Kerala Politicians, although they are certainly part of the problem. I am talking about us, all Malayalees - in and outside the state. We should start somewhere.....the journey of success. The million dollor question is HOW ?!! I think the first hurdle in the journey to success is our mentality towards success. Years of influence on our thinking from the old schools of thought drag us back and carelessly make judgements on our ethics in every spere of life. A close look at each aspect that an induvidual make judgements should be studied to understand the huge effect of the mentality on our road to success. Some examples are our understanding of democarcy, our attitude towards work, our view of wealth creation, our quality of life, Our tolerance toards crime, our inertness on abuse of power or position................many more.