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Dear Readers, Before I explain further on CAPSIM, hope you have read the previous posts ( LINK1 , LINK2 ) on CAPSTONE. Remember the ground rules: Round 1 to 3 even if you make no profits its OK. But aim should be that from Round 4 you are steadily making NET and cumulative profits. The round where the market goes into recession could be changed so accordingly change your strategy The round where the labor goes on strike could change so always apply the round 7 details below for that specific round of yours. Always remember that long term loans are always cheaper to short term loans. Also this game is for 8 years only, while some loans will mature only after that. Always take loan and avoid emergency loan in any round. Never sell your shares too much into market. Never buy shares unless you have excess cash reserves. Any R&D and buying of plant capacity will take effect only at the end of the year !! If your R&D finished in August, then all pending units and future...

Dear Readers, This article will focus on inventory estimation in CAPSIM. I would like to mention that all articles will only lead you to better "estimation" and not the accurate numbers. At the end of the article I have also provided references to other procedures as well. Parameters required from Capstone Courier: 1. Total Industry Unit Demand                     - TIUD    (Every segment analysis page) 2. Next Years Segment Growth Rate            - SGR      (Every segment analysis page) 3. Potential Market Share % per segment     - PMS     (Page 10 of courier) Now take the product of all these 3 per segment: [A] Pessimistic Value = 90% (TIUD x SGR x PMS) [B] Actual Value = TIUD x SGR x PMS [A] is what you shall use in Marketing page and [B] is what you shall use in Production page in...

Disclaimer : The fundamentals mentioned below are my viewpoints and what we learned at IIMB . Thanks to professor Mr. Dharam Pal to give me the permission to post this blog. Before you start any round of the CAPSTONE , please remember the following points. I would suggest one of your team members to check all your decisions against this checklist before you submit every round decisions. Guidance: 1. Keep the assets low and sales high. Market Cap should be around 6 times of sales to do well in CAPSIM.          - Market Capitalization (MCAP) greater than Profits, and          - Profits greater than Assets (these two condition should be met always) 2. What are intangible while running any business?:          - Price to volume equation, Capacity to employee planning          - Competitor analysis*, Customer aspirations          - (Most im...

How often have you felt that the Guest Lecture organized was not worth it. Well, I have gone through this and thought of writing this blog just to help some, from making the same mistakes again. Let us start with some points to remember (prior to inviting him/her): Prepare a list of topics that your group wants to keep the lectures focussed on, never digress from that. Verify the work performed by the lecturer and view the lecture videos if available online Do not fall for big names or firms and call them just because they hold or have held a big position in those firms Remember you want to learn and not waste time. The lecturer should be a good orator. If possible the lecturer could send the macro level topics he shall cover, in advance to guage class involvement Always take a voting amongst classmates to know if your own batch would attend or not Never try to call a lecturer for current affairs (less than 3 months old), you may get one-sided views Keep the questions pr...

Disclaimer : The thoughts / ideas are completely of my own and any resemblance to existing application / article / product are meager coincidence. If any of the points mentioned here are already part of any patent (prior to date of publish) or future product of any company then it is purely coincidental. One could email me to remove the content if required. If anyone gets an idea to patent this, then they could include me in references. As the name suggest, I am trying to think aloud on the futuristic applications / gadgets that could enhance human life until it exists. This is the first article of the many which would get published here in future. In this first article we shall discuss on what could be the major features we could expect in our future automobiles with the addition of "Internet of Things (IoT)". So lets call this futuristic cars as "Smart Cars with IoT". Many of us would have read about the current hot topic called " Internet of Th...

India has been one of the earliest civilizations and not known to slavery for longest time. You shall see some interesting facts about India in the link here . I would also like to share some of the Vedic literature here for my visitors. Upanishad 1 , Upanishad 2 , BhagavadGita Lectures (Audio & Lietrature) Sanskrit Documents

This is the new section in my webpage to showcase some of the documentaries I have written in 2006-07. All copyrights reserved (C) 2016-2020. I shall be updating them soon as and when I get time. Do post your comments / suggestions to me. Road to Marriage Birth of Gods

This is the section where you shall find some of the finest lyrics ever written by different lyricist garnered among various Hindi movies & Ghazals. If you have any song or movie in mind which has some of the finest meanings, please inform me using the comment section below and I shall have the lyrics posted soon with meanings in English (if required)[Link to the website given below]. This is a tribute to all the great and talented lyricists who have given us some great songs in this journey of life. I hope you shall appreciate the effort and encourage me in this journey. Please feel free to post your comments and requests. Lyrics Website

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My thesis was on " Secure Data Relaying via Vehicles for Wireless Sensor Networks " in the FULTON School of Engineering, Computer Science Department, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ under Dr. Hasan Cam (May 28, 2004). Conference Papers : 1] Energy Efficient Security Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks - IEEE VTC Fall 2003 Conference, October 4-9, Orlando, 2003 2] ESPDA: Energy Efficient Secured protocol for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks - IEEE Sensors - The Second IEEE Conference on Sensors, Oct. 22-24, 2003, Toronto, Canada 3] Wireless Sensor Network Security - REAS Symposium 2003 at Arizona State University, Tempe. Journal Papers : 1] Energy Efficient Secured protocol for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks -- appeared in IEEE Computer Communications on Sensor Networks, December 2004. 2] SDDA: Secure Differential Data Aggregation in wireless sensor networks -- appeared in IEEE Sensor Network Operations Monograph, Septemb...

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