Everyday I experience new things. Here I record my experiences with technology, quality control, policies, management as well as topics such as game theory and geological sediments.
During my interview I have been asked about my weakness. My biggest weakness so far had been that I used to take care of the most difficult task first as it interests me a lot, but when it comes to the point of completing a project, I often lost focus because I felt it was a very easy task to complete.
With time comes experience and I have gathered myself in completing the task to the fullest and giving it a 110%.
Every time someone asks me, how much of an effort are you putting in a project. I say, I am giving my 110%. They are puzzled and ask my why not a 100%?
Everyone believes in completing a given task. They consider it Success! I believe in taking the completed task to the next level. This is success for me. And hence a 110%.
Many people have a hard time following up with unplanned events. Prioritization and Time Management are very important for me.
For any of my projects I observe the following rules of success:
Always put in your 110%
Understand the requirements of the project
Plan every step of the project and consider the details
Organize your thoughts frequently to keep yourself in focus
Act as a consumer to build a better product
Work in a team as Teamwork helps to succeed
Manage your tasks by prioritizing them
Take care of the difficult part first.
Correct your mistakes by learning from your past
Always find a way to quantitatively measure your success
Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your strength. Thus with innovative thoughts, communication and proper planning one can give their 110% and take things to the Next Level.
A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses problems and how to solve them. White papers are used to educate readers and help people make decisions.
White Paper gives Scholarly advice on areas of interest. It brings the business and technology together and influences decision makers to leverage the thoughts into a business case.
My area of research includes but is not limited to the following:
Healthcare Information Systems, e.g. Electronic Medical Records, NHIN, RHIO
Applicability of Game Theory in Healthcare and Information Systems
Social / Human Aspects of Information Systems
Quantitative analysis for Search Engine Optimization
Diminishing Marginal Utility (Giffen Goods)
Application of “Consumer Centric” approach in Health care
Analyzing causes and effects of Internal Spamming
Recently I had been noticing that a lot of my White Papers were being referenced by corporate organizations, universities, standards organizations, clients and even students.
With writing two whitepapers (Healthcare Today & Organization Security) as my 2009 resolution, I want to continue my belief that “Sharing Knowledge Helps“.
I have been a part of the Product Management Team for almost a year and a half. Being a Product Manager, leads to added responsibility towards gaining insight on product development and communicating requirements from the consumer/client to the developer.
A Product Manager’s role for Requirement Writing includes:
Find problems and convey to development
Represent the customer
Own the Business Case
My experience has taught me that the product manager should:
Serve as the customer representative in planning and requirements definition
Define the requirements and the product roadmap for a market of customers
Support the ideals of agile development (we want process, but not to much process)
Recently I was exposed to White Papers on Requirement Writing from Pragmatic Marketing . My understanding on Requirement Writing has since then matured and I have documented the same in a presentation to share.
The conclusion that can be drawn from my extensive reading and past experience is “If we have been developing and prioritizing requirements for future products on an ongoing basis, we will have success’”.
You Tube, Google Videos, Veoh, MetaCafe etc. are concentrating their efforts towards Video Search Engines. With our current technology, it limits us to search text which is marked as tags to the videos. This is not an ideal way of searching for videos.
Recently Google has tried to allow users to search thru’ computer generated transcripts of Election Videos. This helps in finding more focussed videos and improving the search experience of the users.
Google is also urging its users to Submit Transcripts while sharing/uploading their videos.
Search is currently text dominated. When it becomes Video dominated, it would be interesting to see which software supports video editing. Currently the market does not have a good Video Software Editor.
This means that in future it would still be difficult to find videos as they might not be precise and to the point. It might not be able to tag only certain sections of the video.
Presentations are used during meetings or formal gatherings to explain and convey a particular topic of discussion.
Presentations can be defined as a visual representation of something (text or picture or video or demo). Recently I was introduced to SlideShare.net (a site to share powerpoint presentations)
SlideShare.net allows you to:
1. Upload your presentation
2. Share it
3. View presentations by others
4. Tag presentations
5. Mark favorites and post comment
6. Download presentations
7. Share your presentations via other Social Networking Sites like LinkedIn etc.
I remember the days when I used to request a speaker to send his/her presentation via email. Now, I request them to upload it on SlideShare. I use presentations for documenting what I have learned and for explaining our project status. Sometimes, I use powerpoint for building a project plan. The scope is unlimited. With Slideshare, I can learn ways of designing new slide templates and it helps me make my presentations interesting.
The notion of sharing knowledge excites me. I have created more than 100+ presentations and I have uploaded many of them on my SlideShare Network.
My goal is to share knowledge by creating interesting presentations and making the audience understand what I am trying to convey. SlideShare seems to be the right tool for helping me move in that direction.
With 2008 gone so fast, I have realized that every moment that I spent touches my family, my work, my thoughts and the rest of the world.
For 2009, I choose to:
Personal:
Spend more time with my family
Plan my vacation(s) ahead of time
Watch meaningful TV shows like “Leave it to Beaver” (which teach us something good)
Work hard on keeping in constant touch with my Friends
Observe controlled emotions
Workout twice/thrice a week and observe a controlled diet
Make big decisions and plan for the future
Work:
Write a white paper on “Healthcare Today“
Gain deeper product knowledge
Try to optimize inter-departmental communication by developing better tools
Write a white paper / presentation on “Organization Security“
Try to push the concept of “Don’t Be Evil” - Both Internally (within the organization) and Externally (to our clients)
Learning more about HIE (Health Information Exchange)
2009 is going to be very important for observing Presidential Influence in the current economic situation, managing finances, making big decisions which will affect my future and helping me communicate my thoughts out in the open. I look forward for a happy and prosperious 2009!
About Me
Nainil Chheda,MS is the Knowledge Research Specialist at eClinicalWorks LLC, Member of ASTM, AMIA, AIIM, PDF/H, EHRVA, HITSP, AIS and ACM, and a practicing researcher on Healthcare Informatics.
Nainil Chheda,MS is the Knowledge Research Specialist at eClinicalWorks LLC, Member of ASTM, AMIA, AIIM, PDF/H, EHRVA, HITSP, AIS and ACM, and a practicing researcher on Healthcare Informatics.
