The Transformation Process in Hindu Mythology: HINDUISM PROVIDES a unique window into the three perspectives:

“Managing the present, selectively forgetting the past, and creating the future”

The religion recognizes many gods but only three main deities: Vishnu, the god of preservation Shiva, the god of destruction and Brahma, the god of creation.

The Hindu mythmakers even paired each of the three gods with symbolically relevant wives. Vishnu was married to Lakshmi, who bestowed wealth. Shiva’s partner was Parvathi, who symbolized power, a vital necessity when selectively destroying the past. Brahma was betrothed to Saraswathi, who symbolized creativity, ideas, and knowledge- critical inputs in formulating strategies. According to Hindu philosophy, the balanced interactions among the three gods create a continuous preservation – destruction- creation cycle that helps sustain all forms of life in a circle without a beginning or an end. Achieving that continuous cycle is a goal worthy of any farsighted organization.

ref: Spring 2012 Harvard Business Review

“And We all think that management is a new ART”

I could not stand posting a blog post about those wonderful photos. This is the moment at its best. Bravo Tobias. It must be real hard trial to get those photo streams.

Tobias Bruning’s photostream:

Rise of the Machines: Moving from hype to reality in the burgeoning market for machine-to-machine communication

 On the Brink of Something Big: sizing the M2M market

Thx for all the attendees. I hope you all enjoyed all the presentations. 1,530 attendees, covering 50 presentations in 8 parallel rooms.

Details: http://www.sap.com/turkey/about/events/isteoan/index.epx

Ref: http://allthingsbusinessanalytics.blogspot.com/

Source:http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/1280/slides/ju-information-graphics-05.jpg

I was just surfing and came across this info graphics. The resolution was not clear but it is clear that they (I do not know who they are) just visit the home page and visit cnn.com when there is an election.

I have been discussing with many c-level executives about mobility and what is the next best thing that would transform the way we operate in our companies. For sure mobility is a real game changer. I have not seen anybody objecting to this! But going into a deeper dialog requires creating a sense of urgency or awareness. In order to create this I have 5 questions to ask:

1- Do you have a mobile first strategy:

Does your IT still code and deploy software for desktop computing? Or do they deploy for mobile Era. If they are still creating solutions for desktop computing that means everyday you are creating new stuff to move out of your landscape!

2- Do you have an Internal Mobile Apps Store:

I like calling it your internal itunes. Think about having all your mobile apps being served to different devices from a single point. See the following examples for ipad and iphone

3- Do you hava a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy:

In todays mobile Era, what ever we do it must be device independent and people must be able to choose and use their own device preference. As of today we do not know who will be the winner or killer device for the next wave. The winner is changing very fast. It was Microsoft, then BlackBerry and now Apple. Can any one guess what will be the next! We should be able to manage different devices centrally. Mobile device management must be active for different mobile OS platforms.

4- Do you have  a strategy to enable your current infrastructure with mobility:

You have to unwire your current systems.  you have to make sure what you do for one platform or device group will be suitable for other emerging new mobile technologies

5- Mobility is a transformation:

It is not just technology. the way we do our day to day business will change. You must have a clear transformation roadmap in place.

 If your company is doing all 5 it is excellent. 4 is also good. 3 is still not bad.
But anything below 3 ! you have to watch out.

]]> http://ugurcandan.net/cool/top-five-things-to-consider-in-mobile-era/feed/ 2 http://ugurcandan.net/cool/algorithms-and-sex-appeal/ http://ugurcandan.net/cool/algorithms-and-sex-appeal/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:15:11 +0000 Ugur http://ugurcandan.net/cool/?p=1685 From Wikipedia: an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning. In simple words an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Now let’s analyze OkCupid.com it is a famous web site. On 2-Feb-2011 Match.com had [...]]]> From Wikipedia: an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning. In simple words an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations.

Now let’s analyze OkCupid.com it is a famous web site. On 2-Feb-2011 Match.com had acquired OkCupid for $50 million in cash. Many users expressed distress, worrying that they would now have to pay for OkCupid’s free dating services. Well, co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan, says that this isn’t the case. Now all users should be happy? Should I? No I am not a user? My relation to OkCupid started with their Okcupid Blog. They have funny talented statisticians and they like to run crazy analysis over their large set of data. They have interesting tests as well. İf you have not checked them out, you are decreasing your chance of finding the right one by 70%.

Remember we have talked about the Netflix Pragmatic Chaos algorithm. In this case the algorithm is not known or disclosed but thanks to their mathematicians that they are sharing interesting findings in their data set. OkCupid has the power of running millions of questions over thousands of their users in fairly small fraction of time. And they can easily come up with statistically very significant correlations. As we all know whaen the sample size increase the results get more and more significant.

1- If you are a okcupid user your best match is determined by an ALGORITHYM

2- How attractive you are depends on your photo!

This is how they are rated? For Woman an advice, A very significant advice:

“The more men disagree about a woman’s looks, the more they like her.”

The bar at the bottom represents the like count of those images in a scale of 1 to 5. Which one do you think got the most messages?

Ok final words: From OkCupid

“…But our advice can apply to anyone. Browsing OkCupid, I see so many photos that are clearly designed to minimize some supposedly unattractive trait—the close-cropped picture of a person who’s probably overweight is the classic example. We now have mathematical evidence that minimizing your “flaws” is the opposite of what you should do. If you’re a little chubby, play it up. If you have a big nose, play it up. If you have a weird snaggletooth, play it up: statistically, the guys who don’t like it can only help you, and the ones who do like it will be all the more excited.”

This is the place of Carrier Hotel in Manhattan. This is the place where the internet fiber channel cables come out. And then the web is distributed to the other buildings. As you might imagine seconds count when it comes to high frequency trading. The question is “what if I was a few milliseconds infront of my competitor?” Could speed of data matter in such cases. Could a distance of few blocks create a significant diference?  Yes they could. and yes it did.

Auto trader algorithms like the Carnival, Boston Shuffler, the knife running at Carrier Hotel will beat others down the road. Becouse they are close to the data stream.
Could this be modeled for the planet? Could we actually know where to mount servers?

YES we can. SURE we did. For the full story you can read the PATENT of Alex.

Here is the topology that you might want to trade.