Tej Kohli Personal Blog

Tej Kohli shares an interesting questionnaire on people management:

Take the following questionnaire and choose your answer from true, not true or partly true.

1. The human resources department is represented in srategy-building sessions of top management.
2. The performance of the human resources department and of the organisation are linked.
3. In your company, all human resources issues are closely linked to every other business process.
4. Line managers are recruited along with trained specialists in the human resources department.
5. The human resources department links appraisal and compensation to corporate objectives.
6. The human resources department has knowledge of behavioural sciences and industrial psychology.

Tej Kohli shares information on Ofcom courtesy mbayair.org.

UK telecom regulator, Ofcom, has ruled that internet telephone carriers must provide uninterrupted access to Britian’s emergency number, 999, as well as the European Union’s universal emergency line, 112.

Carriers have until September 2008 to comply with the ruling, which applies to all VoIP firms that allow their customers to call normal phone numbers over the internet.

Ofcom says that the regulation is necessary to ensure that emergency victims can summon help as quickly as possible. According to a recent survey, an astounding 78% of those using non-emergency-enabled VoIP services in the UK thought that they had access to 999 and/or 112.

To manage people better, the following processes should be top priority for the managers:

Communication

Performance Management

Training and Development

Competency Development

Compensation

Career Development

Participatory Culture

Tej Kohli gives a list of his favourite Product Management books:

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

The Product Manager’s Handbook : The Complete Product Management Resource by Linda Gorchels

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making (3rd Edition) by Thomas T. Nagle

Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch, Third Edition by Robert G. Cooper

Harvard Business Review on Brand Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Erich Joachimsthaler

How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon

Sales & Operations Planning — The How-To Handbook by Thomas Wallce

Software Product Management Essentials by Alyssa S. Dver

Retail Product Management by R. Varley

Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota’s System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It by Michael N. Kennedy

Product Development for the Service Sector: Lessons from Market Leaders by Robert G. Cooper

Harvard Business Review on Marketing by Harvard Business School Press

Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin