Enterprise Communication Strategy

Enteprise communication strategy is one of the buzzwords in the Technology Industry. Every organization be it Banking, Insurance, Finance, Health, IT, Infrastructure, Construction, etc., needs to have a well defined communication strategy towards enabling seamless communication through various channels like Instant messaging, Email, Telephony, Intranet, Voicemail, Fax etc., With the IP Telephony adoption rate increasing with the leading vendors like Cisco, Avaya, Lucent are pushing very hard to sell their portfolio products in the enterprise communication. Unified communication and colloboration of all the channels is the next big happening in the enterprises. With almost all the larger corporations having migrated to IP Telephony (solely the benefit being reduced operational expenditure and also ease of Moves, Adds and Changes (MACs)) the focus is now on the advent of Unified communications trying to integrate / unify the different channels of communication like Instant messaging, Email, Telephony, Intranet, Voicemail, Fax etc., that would enhance the productivity with the ability of PRESENCE... Yes you get to know the presence status of the individual and also Unfied Mobility with the Single Number Reach no matter wherever you are.... Reachable Anywhere Anytime with one number !!! Will share more on later blogs !!!!

Port sector review

http://pmindia.gov.in/press-details.php?nodeid=1423
The communication from the PMO on the Public-Private partnership initiatives for the country's ports is glad news. As noted, the security clearance from the Ministries of Defence, Home and Envrionment has been the major bottleneck for such initiatives like dredging towards increasing the port capacity. I would like to highlight the need for having a defined Response Level Agreement for every ministry for such clearances that affect such large scale projects. We need to categorize the type of clearances and their priority level and set a response time for every Ministry. I would assume the PMO headed by the Prime Minster will review such administrative bottlenecks by having regular meetings with the concerned ministries. I would assume the government already has such governance structure with the steering committee in place to oversee the Projects. We have to review the governance structure at all levels and come up with new processes and methodologies to remove the unwanted bottlenecks/delays/red-tapism and make the roles(not the persons) responsible for the delays. Such a revamp of governance is the need of the hour to achieve faster processing of administrative tasks and better governance