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Actually this is my old blog, when I started to learn about blog in 2008 and recently I decided to activate it again. This blog will contain all of my thoughts or I grabe something usefull from internet. So, it will be free topic and no boundary at all, anything good will be here.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
What Online Panel Companies can LEARN from STEVE JOBS?
In between February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 lived a WIZARD on Planet Earth who was called by the name Steve Jobs!! I think this article would fall short of words to describe this visionary who changed the way we do business. His life was nothing short of a BOLLYWOOD pot boiler and for ages to come he has left his mark on our thought process. This article illustrates 5 business lessons which Online Panel Companies can learn from Steve Jobs.
LESSON 1: WHERE THE ‘PUCK’ IS GOING TO BE!!
Once Steve Jobs said ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been’ – an amazing business lesson to anticipate future trends and work accordingly. Most of the companies LIVE in the PRESENT – which is not all wrong but if they fail to foresee what future demands they are bound for disaster.
Today online panel companies are in a mad race to recruit respondents & bombard them with survey requests – what they are failing to anticipate is the future is all about investing in technology!! Panel business in recent times has been churning out low quality data as companies are failing miserably to purge out ‘FAKE RESPONDENTS’. If the current trend continues clients would be really vary of using this methodology for conducting their research fieldwork.
What had separated online data collection from other methodology was the TECHNOLOGY – but if panel companies do not invest heavily in the technology department they are bound to FAIL!!!
LESSON 2: SURROUND YOURSELF WITH AN AWESOME TEAM!!
Steve Jobs wasn’t a great computer engineer. Apple would not have been what it is today had Steve Jobs was the only one building computers. That was the very reason why he partnered with Steve Wozniak. Through the years, Apple progressed thanks to the brilliant people Steve Jobs brought on board – like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Pixar CCO (Chief Creative Officer) John Lasseter.
Apart from few big ones, most of the panel companies do not understand this philosophy – YOU ARE WHAT YOUR TEAM IS!! Most of the panel companies are so much worried and concentrated around panel development that they completely ignore this fact. Employee training is something never heard of in panel domain!! It is not the right way to do business as an ill trained employee can mess up the best laid processes!!
LESSON 3: OBSTACLES ARE JUST A PHASE IN YOUR JOURNEY TO SUCCESS!!
Steve Jobs ran out of money while developing first Apple computer– instead of giving in, he sold his van – aptly signifying that ‘WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY’.
Panel management is not an easy task – if you are unable to feed your respondents a regular supply of surveys most of them will become DORMANT!! All the money you have spend to recruit people will burn away. DO NOT LOOSE HOPE – you need to just keep your respondents engaged for e.g. you can run an internal survey on a popular topic and share the results with all participating members – this will help create a very strong brand loyalty amongst your panel members!!
LESSON 4: CREATE A PERSONAL BRAND!!
Steve Jobs was one of the foremost people to understand the growing importance of personal brands in the digital age. The black turtleneck is easily recognizable!! In fact no other CEO has such a profound effect on the brand imagery of a company as Steve Jobs had. His product launches were easily the most anticipated events in the media.
Panel companies now days lag behind in the brand building exercise – ask yourself how many panel members know for whom they are filling up surveys. Many people might find the argument weak but people are sharing their personal opinions with you – they ought to know and connect with the people running the show. Imagine what if Apple was a panel company and people had received survey invitation – I guess any survey would have been completed in minutes!!!
Create a personal brand for your panel company and CONNECTwith your respondents!!!
LESSON 5: PUT A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE!!
Steve Jobs once said, “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?”
The very reason that panel companies are POPPING UP now days is ‘LOW ENTRY BARRIER’ & ‘GREED FOR QUICK MONEY’!! But I personally believe that having a higher purpose doesn’t just help you find SUCCESS – it redefines the meaning of the word. People in the panel business have an amazing opportunity to change the course of the market research – they can REDEFINE the value proposition. My humble request would be not to get stuck in the labyrinth of greed but make your earnest contribution in changing the face of the market research.
Now you have a choice. You can comment, share, or implement. I prefer if you implement, but I’ll appreciate all three – Akshay Kanyal
Monday, February 13, 2012
Professor Facebook
More connective tissue may make academia more efficient
Feb 11th 2012 | from the print edition
GIVEN journalists’ penchant for sticking the suffix “gate” onto anything they think smells of conspiracy, a public-relations consultant might have suggested a different name. But ResearchGate, a small firm based in Berlin, is immune to such trivia. It is ambitious, too—aiming to do for the academic world what Mark Zuckerberg did for the world in general, by creating a social network for scientists. And it is successful. About 1.4m researchers have signed up already, and that number is growing by 50,000 a month.
Non-scientists might be surprised that such a network is needed. After all, the internet was originally created mainly by academics for academics and Mr Zuckerberg’s invention, Facebook, got its start on college campuses. But though the internet has speeded things up, it has not fundamentally changed how researchers are connected. Academic communities are still pretty fragmented, frequently making it hard for scientists to find others doing similar research. And results often are not shared across disciplines.
To make things more efficient and interdisciplinary, ResearchGate wants to help the academic world to grow more connective tissue, as Ijad Madisch, one of the firm’s founders, puts it. As on Facebook, users create a profile page with biographical information, list their interests and research skills, and join groups. They can see what others with similar interests are up to and post comments. They can also upload their papers and create invitation-only workgroups.
The big question is whether ResearchGate will make enough money to keep its investors happy. So far, it is running on cash from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, two venture capitalists based in Silicon Valley. A third firm is expected to join them soon. But these people will want a return on their investment.
Some of that may already have come from the Max Planck Society, which runs many of Germany’s best research campuses and had ResearchGate build it a private network. Over the longer haul, the firm hopes to charge companies and universities for using it to advertise jobs, and to operate a marketplace for laboratory materials. It has no plans to post other advertising, though, nor to charge its users directly.
At the moment, most of those users are in their 20s. Their favourite activity is to ask each other questions about practical research problems, from DNA-sequencing techniques to statistical tricks. They are also busy reading each other’s papers: more than 10m have been uploaded. (Most scientific journals now allow authors to post their work on “personal web pages”, which includes profile pages on social networks, according to Dr Madisch.)
The service certainly saves these young researchers trial and error, and therefore time and money. They will probably also like a new feature ResearchGate is planning to introduce in April: a feedback system which lets users rate each other’s contributions. This would allow them to build a reputation other than by publishing papers.
Scientists whose reputations are established may be more hesitant, though, and not just because they are set in their ways. Science is not only about collaboration but also about competition. This limits what people are willing to share. But Dr Madisch is optimistic. Those who have grown up with Facebook, he says, know that sharing will improve their research. And their older colleagues will eventually come around—or retire.