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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Indian City rush of future
Sep 14, 2010
McKinsey, envisions a way for India over the next 20 years to turn that influx of young population into a quadrupling. This growth hinges on adequate investment in cities so they can handle the surge in people and the simultaneous increased demand on services. The urban migration, if properly handled, could generate 70% of net new jobs and produce 70% of India's GDP.
To meet their needs, McKinsey suggests that India must build--every year for the next 20 years--between 7 billion and 9 billion square feet of real estate (the equivalent of one Chicago) a year; 220 to 250 miles of metros and subways (more than 20 times what it has built in the past decade); and between 12,000 and 15,000 miles of road lanes.
Multinationals like Aecom, Veolias and Bombardier are in the process of bidding for various projects, including building portions of metro rails in Chennai and Kolkatta and supplying rail cars to Delhi's expanding metro network. Aecom was recently awarded a contract to do the master plan for two of the six satellite industrial cities India plans to build along the 1,700-mile Delhi-to-Mumbai corridor. Each city will house 5 million people.
"This is a huge investment opportunity, but you need to cherry-pick your cities," says Vaidya. He recommends focusing on tier-2 cities like Pune in Maharashtra and Surat in Gujarat and investing in projects like ports and special economic zones (which typically build sector specific manufacturing or research hubs), and in affordable housing, as 90% of the demand is for those.
McKinsey, envisions a way for India over the next 20 years to turn that influx of young population into a quadrupling. This growth hinges on adequate investment in cities so they can handle the surge in people and the simultaneous increased demand on services. The urban migration, if properly handled, could generate 70% of net new jobs and produce 70% of India's GDP.
To meet their needs, McKinsey suggests that India must build--every year for the next 20 years--between 7 billion and 9 billion square feet of real estate (the equivalent of one Chicago) a year; 220 to 250 miles of metros and subways (more than 20 times what it has built in the past decade); and between 12,000 and 15,000 miles of road lanes.
Multinationals like Aecom, Veolias and Bombardier are in the process of bidding for various projects, including building portions of metro rails in Chennai and Kolkatta and supplying rail cars to Delhi's expanding metro network. Aecom was recently awarded a contract to do the master plan for two of the six satellite industrial cities India plans to build along the 1,700-mile Delhi-to-Mumbai corridor. Each city will house 5 million people.
"This is a huge investment opportunity, but you need to cherry-pick your cities," says Vaidya. He recommends focusing on tier-2 cities like Pune in Maharashtra and Surat in Gujarat and investing in projects like ports and special economic zones (which typically build sector specific manufacturing or research hubs), and in affordable housing, as 90% of the demand is for those.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Interesting jobs more important GenY
Thu, Jul 8, 2010
Interesting job profile, faster career growth opportunities and comfortable work environment that drive Generation Y, says a new study by Steelcase Work-Space Futures, a US-based global office workspace solutions provider.
"There has been a large paradigm shift in the behaviour and expectations of young employees below 30 years of age. Good salary and brand attract them, but it takes a better working environment and fast growth opportunity to retain them," Sudhakar Lahade, senior researcher with the study said.
According to Lahade, most employers feel that paying good salary is not enough to keep the workforce happy. Though a good salary counts, it is the companies that offer them faster career growth opportunities, challenging assignments and interesting work profiles that attract them.
Also, the employees have different expectations from employers, who they feel should be sensitive to the employees' needs and comforts inside as well as outside the workplace. They also look to their employers to acknowledge the hard work they put in.
"Workplace is not just a compulsive space but it's a refuge for them from the chaotic environment outside. So, they want facilities that are better than the outer world," he said. With 644 million people in India and China aged around 30, it is important for employers to understand the behaviour of the staff and create an amiable workplace.
Interesting job profile, faster career growth opportunities and comfortable work environment that drive Generation Y, says a new study by Steelcase Work-Space Futures, a US-based global office workspace solutions provider.
"There has been a large paradigm shift in the behaviour and expectations of young employees below 30 years of age. Good salary and brand attract them, but it takes a better working environment and fast growth opportunity to retain them," Sudhakar Lahade, senior researcher with the study said.
According to Lahade, most employers feel that paying good salary is not enough to keep the workforce happy. Though a good salary counts, it is the companies that offer them faster career growth opportunities, challenging assignments and interesting work profiles that attract them.
Also, the employees have different expectations from employers, who they feel should be sensitive to the employees' needs and comforts inside as well as outside the workplace. They also look to their employers to acknowledge the hard work they put in.
"Workplace is not just a compulsive space but it's a refuge for them from the chaotic environment outside. So, they want facilities that are better than the outer world," he said. With 644 million people in India and China aged around 30, it is important for employers to understand the behaviour of the staff and create an amiable workplace.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Future career trends
Computer Technology
The fastest growing area of employment in U.S. in recent years has been computer technology. Technological advance and the continued integration of IT and digital communications into the workplace throughout the private, public and voluntary sectors ensures that this trend will continue for some time. Systems analysts, designers and developers, computer programmers, web developers, consultants and information managers reflect the range of these career areas. Hardware engineers are also needed, working in infrastructure construction and repair, fibre, cable, satellites, etc.
Healthcare sector
Another guaranteed growth area is the healthcare sector. The increasing number of healthcare jobs is directly attributable to the growing age of the population – people are living longer so there are more people in the older age groups – and the expansion of treatments available for medical conditions, whether delivered in the primary healthcare sector or within hospitals. Consequently, there is also an expansion in the number of administrative and support roles needing to be filled.
Other Careers
Other careers deemed to be ‘hot’ future career prospects relate to areas of scientific advance, and in particular the “bio” sciences, such as biotechnology. Tissue engineers and gene programmers have been highlighted, but all skill levels are included – as companies grow, so does their administration infrastructure. Other new scientific areas include nanotechnology and energy technology. Demographic changes are leading to other needs in addition to healthcare. Teaching and tourism, training and development, and care of the elderly are all areas where openings are set to increase, as are financial advisors.
Service sector
Services that already exist will grow further as the population ages. Standard professions include the legal sector, police, teachers, tutors, etc. Meanwhile, there is a general return amongst certain income sectors of paying for domestic support with the services of maids and cleaners, drivers, etc. This is increasingly common as the higher divorce levels yield more one-parent families. New services are developing that are opening out into recognized career fields. Many of these are provided directly to the consumer. Counselling and various complementary therapies are obvious examples, as well as physical training instructors and coaches.
The fastest growing area of employment in U.S. in recent years has been computer technology. Technological advance and the continued integration of IT and digital communications into the workplace throughout the private, public and voluntary sectors ensures that this trend will continue for some time. Systems analysts, designers and developers, computer programmers, web developers, consultants and information managers reflect the range of these career areas. Hardware engineers are also needed, working in infrastructure construction and repair, fibre, cable, satellites, etc.
Healthcare sector
Another guaranteed growth area is the healthcare sector. The increasing number of healthcare jobs is directly attributable to the growing age of the population – people are living longer so there are more people in the older age groups – and the expansion of treatments available for medical conditions, whether delivered in the primary healthcare sector or within hospitals. Consequently, there is also an expansion in the number of administrative and support roles needing to be filled.
Other Careers
Other careers deemed to be ‘hot’ future career prospects relate to areas of scientific advance, and in particular the “bio” sciences, such as biotechnology. Tissue engineers and gene programmers have been highlighted, but all skill levels are included – as companies grow, so does their administration infrastructure. Other new scientific areas include nanotechnology and energy technology. Demographic changes are leading to other needs in addition to healthcare. Teaching and tourism, training and development, and care of the elderly are all areas where openings are set to increase, as are financial advisors.
Service sector
Services that already exist will grow further as the population ages. Standard professions include the legal sector, police, teachers, tutors, etc. Meanwhile, there is a general return amongst certain income sectors of paying for domestic support with the services of maids and cleaners, drivers, etc. This is increasingly common as the higher divorce levels yield more one-parent families. New services are developing that are opening out into recognized career fields. Many of these are provided directly to the consumer. Counselling and various complementary therapies are obvious examples, as well as physical training instructors and coaches.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Shortage of 70,000 networking pros! in India
New Delhi, March 24 -- Computers that process data and software that power them separately create hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide, the networking technologies that link the two together are often missed in the buzz.
The world's leading networking equipment company, Cisco Systems, estimates that India is facing a shortage of 70,000 professionals in networking alone, as data centres mushroom and the Internet expands to help businesses and homes alike.
California-based Cisco, which started out with routers and expanded into a range of switches and end-user gear such as conferencing systems, says an increasing trend to outsource IT infrastructure management will only widen the shortfall in the months to come.
Quality networking professionals are a rare species at the global level too. Globally, the shortage is as high as one million.
Apart from maintaining switches and routers, networking experts also take care of security and risk management in data centres and employ "virtualisation" under which a job done by a machine can now be executed through software, enabling easier network management from remote locations. Network architecture, network design, unified communications and cloud computing would also be the trends over the next five years.
The world's leading networking equipment company, Cisco Systems, estimates that India is facing a shortage of 70,000 professionals in networking alone, as data centres mushroom and the Internet expands to help businesses and homes alike.
California-based Cisco, which started out with routers and expanded into a range of switches and end-user gear such as conferencing systems, says an increasing trend to outsource IT infrastructure management will only widen the shortfall in the months to come.
Quality networking professionals are a rare species at the global level too. Globally, the shortage is as high as one million.
Apart from maintaining switches and routers, networking experts also take care of security and risk management in data centres and employ "virtualisation" under which a job done by a machine can now be executed through software, enabling easier network management from remote locations. Network architecture, network design, unified communications and cloud computing would also be the trends over the next five years.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Apple's 'iKey' to replace the humble door key
Sun, Mar 7
London, Mar 7 (ANI): Computer giant Apple is set to revolutionize the traditional door key with introduction of a hi-tech alternative nicknamed the 'iKey'.
The technology simply requires the users to enter a pin code and wave the device over an electronic pad beside the door to open it. The same device could be used to unlock cars, front door and gain access to their office. The application states: "The device can communicate with an external device to open a lock. By way of example, the electronic device may be a model of an iPhone.
The device may be attributed with a feature to encrypt any information that passes between the iPhone and the computer-controlled lock for enhancing safety.
London, Mar 7 (ANI): Computer giant Apple is set to revolutionize the traditional door key with introduction of a hi-tech alternative nicknamed the 'iKey'.
The technology simply requires the users to enter a pin code and wave the device over an electronic pad beside the door to open it. The same device could be used to unlock cars, front door and gain access to their office. The application states: "The device can communicate with an external device to open a lock. By way of example, the electronic device may be a model of an iPhone.
The device may be attributed with a feature to encrypt any information that passes between the iPhone and the computer-controlled lock for enhancing safety.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Soon, shoes that may harvest pounding of walking to power mobiles
Tue, Feb 16
Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): Princeton University engineers have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
The material, composed of ceramic nanoribbons embedded onto silicone rubber sheets, generates electricity when flexed and is highly efficient at converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.
Shoes made of the material may one day harvest the pounding of walking and running to power mobile electrical devices.
Placed against the lungs, sheets of the material could use breathing motions to power pacemakers, obviating the current need for surgical replacement of the batteries which power the devices.
The Princeton team is the first to successfully combine silicone and nanoribbons of lead zirconate titanate (PZT), a ceramic material that is piezoelectric, meaning it generates an electrical voltage when pressure is applied to it.
Of all piezoelectric materials, PZT is the most efficient, able to convert 80 percent of the mechanical energy applied to it into electrical energy.
"PZT is 100 times more efficient than quartz, another piezoelectric material. You don't generate that much power from walking or breathing, so you want to harness it as efficiently as possible," said Michael McAlpine, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, at Princeton, who led the project.
"The new electricity-harvesting devices could be implanted in the body to perpetually power medical devices, and the body wouldn't reject them," McAlpine said.
Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): Princeton University engineers have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
The material, composed of ceramic nanoribbons embedded onto silicone rubber sheets, generates electricity when flexed and is highly efficient at converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.
Shoes made of the material may one day harvest the pounding of walking and running to power mobile electrical devices.
Placed against the lungs, sheets of the material could use breathing motions to power pacemakers, obviating the current need for surgical replacement of the batteries which power the devices.
The Princeton team is the first to successfully combine silicone and nanoribbons of lead zirconate titanate (PZT), a ceramic material that is piezoelectric, meaning it generates an electrical voltage when pressure is applied to it.
Of all piezoelectric materials, PZT is the most efficient, able to convert 80 percent of the mechanical energy applied to it into electrical energy.
"PZT is 100 times more efficient than quartz, another piezoelectric material. You don't generate that much power from walking or breathing, so you want to harness it as efficiently as possible," said Michael McAlpine, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, at Princeton, who led the project.
"The new electricity-harvesting devices could be implanted in the body to perpetually power medical devices, and the body wouldn't reject them," McAlpine said.
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