October 2007
  
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events update
 
  Doing it Better Than Before

It’s true that the biggest barrier to improved performance is our own constraining “mental model” about how we should conduct ourselves. It’s not just what we do; it’s our own perceptions of the world and how we think. Our constraints don’t come from the outside world, they come from within. If we can overcome these our effectiveness will surely rise.

Mental Models relates to the deeply held internal images of how the world works, images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. As a community we don’t engage much in self reflection, even though we often say we wish we had the time to do it. Taking the time to deepen our knowledge of the external environment, the trends and stresses in the field, and especially our own experiences, is critical for improving performance.

Like everyone, we are reluctant to hold a mirror up to ourselves. There is virtually no critical analysis of performance. Outsiders don’t write much about us. In those rare cases of “real” criticism, our mores suggest that we have little responsibility to publicly respond, defend, to argue, to justify. Things tend to go silent.

Also systematic ongoing data collection and dissemination to a standard practice is required for doing better as such information could be useful for learning form the past and improving in future.

We can choose to be better if we decide. We don’t have to finish up the job, but infact we have to start it again with a view of DOING IT BETTER THAN BEFORE.

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 Events Update


The long wait finally ended as Rose IT Solutions Pvt Ltd celebrated its half yearly party on the19th of August, 2007.It was a great pleasure to have workforce accompanied by their family members to be present under the same roof and share their moments as being a family altogether. The success was monitored by the fact that employees across various departments got together along with their spouses to make those moments more graceful. The venue was all dazzling with the animated lighting along with the enthusiasm of the employees who danced all the way through the party. To add up we had few scintillating performances that portrayed creative skills of our
workforce. The aroma of the mouth watering delicacies was more than a delight to satisfy the tantalizing taste buds of everyone present in the party. Shall we then say the party has just ended or is it a new beginning…………….

 
 Did you Know?


Did you know that the original idea and patent that led to cellular phone technology comes from the movie star, Hedy Lamarr?

She'd kept her mind active on what she'd heard about the problems of radio controlled missiles and how easy it was to block the simple signal. She realized that if the signal jumped from frequency to frequency quickly (like changing channels on a TV or radio) and both sender and receiver changed in the same order, then the signal could never be blocked by someone "listening in" who didn't know how the frequency was changing.

In those days before the transistor was invented it was difficult to design a way for this to be accomplished. Composer George Antheil suggested using something similar to piano rolls, from player pianos, to keep both sides in synch. Together, he and Lamarr patented the "Secret Communication System" in 1942. At that time the idea of using the paper rolls was too cumbersome to be practical.

When the transistor did become available the Navy used the idea in secure military communications and when transistors became really cheap the idea was used in cellular phone technology. By the time the Navy used the idea, the original patent had expired and Lamarr and Antheil never received any royalty payments for their idea.

In 1997 she was honored with an award at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference for "blazing new trails on the electronic frontier." Hedy Lamarr died on January 19, 2000.

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