Get the Human Software Right

In the era when the technology is evolving, anybody can get the hardware according to the requirements but the main challenge is to get right minds at the right time and right place. Like Nandan Nilekani always say in his interviews, the only advantage he had was that he was present at the right place with right minds and the right time. Brilliant minds attract other brilliant minds.

So the main challenge is to get the trained professionals or subject matter experts with or without experience; having no experience is more a mental hurdle than otherwise.

The main elements to develop a trained professional are team work, exposure to risks, decision taking ability. These lessons can be taken from Honeybees, they exhibit best team work; they work in small teams and whenever a team gets big, they split into small teams. Their approach is ‘too-big-to-fail’ i.e. whenever a team gets large, the inefficiency increases and thus resulting in under performance.

Another analogy could be honeybee strategy for decision taking capability. Bees take decision depending on the output required and the sources available i.e. they check the capacity of beehive before working too hard. There is no point in manufacturing honey if they are not going to use it and also under production can reduce the life saving chances.

When making big decisions, honeybees discuss among themselves. They have a strong communication technique through which they take informed decisions. They use their experience to reiterate their decisions.

Prosperity of small countries is the best example of importance of skills and not the manpower. If the attitude of the person is right, no one can stop him from achieving success. So before using the advanced softwares, an individual should work on his own software.

Courtesy : Ankur Goel
Batch      :  2011-2013