EDITOR’S DESK

LIVE CURRENT:NEWS WIRE

THE ARMY IS IN SAFE

HANDS.

WHERE IS TABLET HEADED?

KAIZEN-AN ENDLESS JOURNEY

TOWARDS EXCELLENCE

TOYOTA KANBAN SYSTEMS

ESSENCE OF LIGHT

EDITORIAL TEAM

EDITOR’S DESK

Imaginosus being a product of Kaizen, the operations of club of IBS has shown

continuous improvement in every next issue it has come up with. Imaginosus is not just an e-

magazine but it is also a supplementary source for value addition to classrooms of B-schools.

Readers have shown interest in reading as well as contributing to Imaginosus .Anupama

Chauhan, an MBA 1st year student of IBS ,Hyderabad has been the first to add stars to our

magazine by her critique article.

The writers of Imaginosus have put forth to its readers the essential must- knows.

Breakthroughs in technology, new products in the market, politics, business processes and

some critique are highlights of this issue.

I appreciate the junior

editorial team’s sincere efforts and also

IT& Creative team for the amazing look

and feel of the magazine which has been

appreciated by a lot of our readers as well.

Please help us serve you better by mailing

us your feedback to imaginosus.emagazine@gmail.com.

Nikita Berry, MBA 1st Year

hile all of us are busy preparing for our CPs, NCPs, doing WACs, assignments etc, a

group of 37 students(18 seniors and 19 juniors) are searching and researching the topics of

importance.

The members of the four year old

NEWSWIRE club are

pouring out an open

invitation to Karōshi, given

that these people are also

supposed to keep up with

the demands of their MBA

course and also presenting

varying topics of news.

With essentially four areas,

namely: sports, economic,

national and international,

of news presented daily by the members of

the club, the e-news site also feature

articles by its editorial team and guest

writers.

You might be receiving the

informative mails saying “NEWSWIRE-

Reality………delivered daily” daily these days

but after 5th September, you will find all the

news by clicking just one tab at the Stu-Z

site. In its whole new avatar, the newswire

webpage would share the highs and lows of

all what’s going around

us as “News-wire 3.0”. As

the President of the club,

Kisslay, puts it, the club

also releases a monthly

movie, the first of this

semester being “A DAY

IN THE LIFE OF AN IBS

STUDENT”. The movie

deals with the life of the

IBS students being so

busy that they don’t have the time for

reading newspaper and how “the savior”

news-wire, comes in to fulfill the needs of

all the students. The movie’s script was

prepared by Kisslay himself, Prakrit, the

technical head of the club was the

protagonist and Milan was cameraman.

The 4 minute 47 seconds entertaining movie

is available at the news-wire tab at stu-z

site. The next planned movie is “seniors vs

juniors”, a movie capturing

the difference in the behavior

of the students in the first and

the second year of MBA in IBS,

regarding CPs and grades, in

general. The innovatively designed web-

page also features a cartoon of the day,

photo of the day, joke of the day and

graffiti. The news team works five days a

week to bring all that is

latest, i.e. Monday through

Thursday, by very smartly

distributing the work

amongst the work team. The

different verticals: Editorial, News-analyst,

Technical and Marketing work together to

bring about the brief, informative and to-

the-point news ppts.

The main organizing and creative work is at-the-moment being handled by

the seniors but Kisslay plans to give the reins in the hands of the juniors by the end of

September. Overall the club is like the “inside-reporter” of the campus and that too a good

one.

The movie deals with

the life of the IBS

students being so busy

that they don’t have

the time for reading

newspaper

It always felt nice witnessing

regiment level games. In the Army, Inter

Unit Kabaddi Championships, and a host

of other games are played with a lot of

enthusiasm from the players as well as

the audience.

Nothing changes. The flags still

flutter from afar pinpointing the distant

arena. The red soiled path decorated

with banners winds its way towards the

grand stand. The same familiar glitz

awaits you as everyone greets each

other.

There is a buzz around the ground

when the teams line up to be broken by

the trumpet announcing the arrival of the

Commanding Officer. An announcer

informs us that Kabaddi is the national

game of Bangladesh and that the word

itself is derived from a Tamil word

meaning "holding of hands”. The referee

in perfectly starched whites asks

permission to commence proceedings as

we all sit to attention. With a ‘let the

games begin’ followed by a whistle a

huge roar erupts. Match on.

I hear the old familiar battle cries.

I belong to neither team, but I am

hooked. The involvement of each and

every member in the audience is so

passionate. As each competitor is

knocked to the ground one side goes

crazy with excitement while the other

groans. This is what people join the army

for: The camaraderie; the loyalty to the

unit. It’s not just the seven members of

the team in there but it’s the whole unit.

The officers go hoarse screaming

instructions and cheering and amazingly

there are feminine voices too.

After the initial prodding one team

was slowly gaining ground over the

other. By the interval time, it was getting

pretty one sided and it seemed that the

losing side was pretty shaken up. We

were well into the second half when

suddenly a lady officer, barely five feet

tall ran out and asked the referee for a

time out for the losing team.

.

It was quite ironic that hose huge, mud clad players

were staring down at the tiny woman as she coached them

earnestly. Then they huddled, she said something and trotted back

to her seat in complete confidence. “Mission accomplished”.

During the next few minutes we watched in utmost amazement as

the tables turned. Now it was our unit’s turn to get delirious as our team recovered the

lost ground. Men were dancing down the sides and so were the officers. The commanding

officer sat stoically, trying to remain impervious to the excitement building up, till he lost

it when his team won with the final whistle. He rushed onto the ground and hugged each

and every sweaty team member.

The table drill, the prize distribution, all went on with military precision. I

watched, feeling pride and nostalgia. After the customary ‘jai kara’ all of us stayed on for

a sumptuous tea. Standing aside with the other Army children I surveyed this next

generation of officers.

Quite by chance, I

spotted the “tiny lady

officer” who had

performed that last

minute miracle. She

was dwarfed by her

group, as I went up to

her. With a brief introduction I asked the question that was intriguing me all along. “What

exactly did you tell them to change the game around so clear?” I queried.“Oh that!” she

replied confidently, “I just told them that if they lost any more points I was entering the

ground to fight for my unit”.

That was it. Keep it simple silly. I watched in amazement at that lady

officer who meant every word she said. It was time to pass on the baton. The army is in

safe hands.

Aruna Satpathy,

MBA 2ND year

Tablets have been around

for a while now. The first

commercially available tablet-

type portable computer was the

GRiDPad from GRiD Systems,

released in September, 1989.

Its operating system was based

on MS-DOS. The term ‘tablet’

was made popular with the

Microsoft Tablet PC concept

presented by Microsoft in 2001.

But today, the term tablet is

also used to refer to computer-

like devices operated primarily

by a touch screen but not

intended to run general PC

operating systems or

applications.

Over the last 10 years

the Tablet has travelled far in

terms of innovation, portability

and functionality. The success

of Amazon’s Kindle, an e-book

reader in 2008, showcased the

world, what the tablet could

offer the public. The launch of

Apple’s iPad triggered a chain

reaction in the tablet industry.

It was a runaway success.

Other big players like Samsung,

Motorola, Dell and RIM

followed the suit by coming up

with their own versions of the

tablet- Galaxy Tab by Samsung,

XOOM by Motorola, Black Berry

Playbook by RIM and Dell

Streak by Dell. These tablets

have become synonymous with

personal entertainment as they

are popularly used by young

city slickers for watching

videos and photos online,

surfing the web, reading e-

books, playing games and

listening to music. But it is now

increasingly becoming a

business tool. According to a

recent Zogby International poll,

the number one reason US

Customers would use an Apple

iPad is that they can work on

the go. In India, the use of

iPads is coming up in a big way,

and the Indian

consumer is gung-

ho about the

device. The tablet

industry in India is

booming right now

and newer and

more affordable options are

popping out of the woodwork.

People are demanding mobile

devices that blend consumer

and enterprise functionality.

Information workers and their

employers are seeing clear

value of tablets for work

related activities. Medical

professionals are using tablets

to view patients’ medical

images, health records and

access key

medical

applications.

IT managers

use them to

remotely

monitor and

manage

business critical systems from

anywhere. Universities are

filled with students and

professors using them as an

integral part of everyday

learning and life. With the

presence of Wi-Fi and other

mobile wireless facilities in

most business and educational

institutions the delivery of

information becomes easier on

tablets. Students and

professors carry them for

taking notes and presentations

instead of bulky laptops and

books. Professionals carry

tablets for conducting sales

presentations on the road and

checking inventory in retail

stores. And the amount of

promised upcoming

applications is endless.

Tablets are here to

stay. As they become more and

more prolific, with increased

functionality, the IT and

wireless requirements must

keep up. Laptops are now sold

more than the desktops. Smart

phones are everywhere.

According to Gartner, 43% of

enterprise workers use

wireless networks and this

number is expected to rise to

58% by 2014. IT people have

their jobs cut out for them as

they need to prepare for the

wave of mobile devices arriving

on the shores of the corporate

wireless networks. With an

increasingly tech-savvy

workforce and products that

are more and more intuitive,

the pace of the enterprise

adoption will only accelerate.

Here’s a list of the

various tablets available today

in the Indian Market. So guys,

take your pick according to

your pocket and needs. My pick

is Apple iPad2 with WiFi + 3G.

fter World War II, entire Japan was suffering from many

problems. A great challenge ahead of Japan was to revive from the debacle of human

resources as well as other natural resources. So, since then Japan has been very

sensitive towards wastage of the scarce natural resources.

In order to turn waste into valuable resource or profit, Japan has

restlessly looked for the best practices in the world. In its endless search of best

practices, Japan discovered a golden principle - Kaizen. Kaizen word is derived from

Japanese language. ‘Kai’ means change and ‘Zen’ means improvement. So, Kaizen

means change for improvement.

The Kaizen philosophy is to "do it better, make it better, and improve it

even if it isn't broken, because if we don't, we can't compete with those who do." For

kaizen, quality satisfied customers.

Value system of Kaizen includes, improve everything at all levels and all

the time. Because, for it, good is never good enough, it is a never ending journey to

excellence. Therefore, Kaizen endlessly looks for best practices for improvement.

Complacency is the enemy of Kaizen. It focuses on problem awareness and provides

clues to identify the problem. Unless we change the process, there is no point in

expecting results to change. Kaizen therefore ensures that not a single day is wasted

without making some small improvements in the processes.

Many companies across the world have improved their processes by

adopting the Kaizen Philosophy in their organization. It is not possible for a single

person in the organization to implement the Kaizen principles. Top management of the

organization requires a proactive and visionary approach to implement (the) Kaizen

Management philosophy.

Kaizen Management performs 2 important functions, first: maintenance

and second, improvement. In the maintenance function, management establishes

standard rules and procedures of operating managerial

and technological tasks. Then, it ensures that all the

people from top management to workers in production

department follow it religiously. While, the

improvement function can be further divided into 2

parts: A) Innovation and B) Kaizen

1. Innovation requires radical changes and

improvements in the existing procedures. Many a time,

it calls for huge capital investment. For example, the management decides to

adopt TQM (Total Quality Management) standards. Then, all the procedures in

the organization will be adapted according to the international standards of

TQM.

2. While, Kaizen focuses on continuous small improvements in the daily

processes through the scientific method of working. It encourages all the people

working in the organization to come up with ideas to improve the existing

standards.

Kaizen is a humane approach in improving the existing standards because it doesn’t

discriminate people on the basis of their position in the organization. It treats all alike. It

not only accepts ideas but also implement them all the time and rewards employees for

their contribution.

Today the scope of Kaizen is not limited only to the production department.

Organizations have successfully implemented the principles of kaizen even to other areas

of management: Marketing Management, Human Resource Management, Financial

Because, its ultimate aim is to remove waste and make processes and people more

efficient and productive.

The waves of Kaizen are also reaching the shores of disciplines other than

business management, i.e. health-care, psychotherapy, life-coaching, banking and

government.

Being the students of management, we must embrace the Kaizen principles in

our leadership to bring out the best out of available resources. Kaizen is a magical and

endless journey towards excellence, perfection and high standards. The moment

someone discovers a standard and rule, Kaizen is always ready to break those rules and

standards to show us a new horizon of victory.

Swati Ponnala,

MBA 1st year

Kanban (看板?), also spelled kamban, and literally means

"signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related

to lean and just-in-time(JIT) production. According

to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-

time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved.

Kanban is not an inventory control system. Rather, it is a

scheduling system that tells you what to produce, when to

produce it, and how much to produce. The need to maintain

a high rate of improvements led Toyota to devise the kanban

system. Kanban became an effective tool to support the

running of the production system as a whole. In addition, it

proved to be an excellent way for promoting improvements.

Toyota Motor Corporation's vehicle production system is a

way of "making things" that is sometimes referred to as a

"lean manufacturing system" or a "Just-in-Time (JIT)

system," and has come to be well known and studied

worldwide.

History of Kanban:

In the late 1940s, Toyota began studying supermarkets with

a view to applying store and shelf-stocking techniques to the

factory floor, based on the idea that in a supermarket,

customers get what they need at the needed time, and in the

needed amount. Furthermore, the supermarket only stocks

what it believes it will sell, and customers only take what

they need because future supply is assured. This led Toyota

to view a process as being a customer of preceding

processes, and the preceding processes as a kind of store.

The customer process goes to this store to get

needed components, and the store restocks."Kanban" uses

the rate of demand to control the rate of production, passing

demand from the end customer up through the chain of

customer-store processes. In 1953, Toyota applied this logic

in their main plant machine shop.

Operating principle of Kanban systems:

Toyota Production System has two major features, “Just-in-

Time Production” and “Jidoka (Automatic line stopping

when something goes wrong)”.The ideal state for producing

goods is the one where machines, equipment and men

perform waste less operations which serve nothing but to

increase added value. “Just-in time production” was

thought out to convert this ideal state into a practical one

everywhere, between each operation, each process, each line

and each shop. In other words by “Just-in-time production”

each process can supply necessary parts in necessary

volume at necessary time.

On the other hand

“Jidoka” means that

whenever an abnormal or

defective condition arises,

machines, equipment or

general conveyor lines

can be supported by the

judgment of these

machines, equipment and

line workers themselves.

In short “Jidoka” lays

emphasis not on operating

machines to full extent

but on making them stop

by themselves as soon as

machining defects happen

in order to take necessary

actions. To make “just-in-

time production” and

“Jidoka” flexible to a

workshop following

conditions are devised:

1) Hourly production at

every process is levelled

with respect to volumes

and specifications of products.

2) Attention is paid to prevent over production.

3) Occurrence of abnormality can be easily identified by

some means of indication (buzzer or lamp)

Toyota Production System employs “Kanban” or a form of

order card as working device. This is the reason why the

production system is called “Kanban System. “This system

connects a supplier as a production process with each of

Toyota’s plans and realizes to minimize the work in process

inventories, which every process in a shop used to keep in

considerable volume formally.

Types Of Kanban

Dual-Card Kanban:-This kanban system is more

commonly referred to as the Toyota kanban system as

Toyota was the first to employ this system in full scale use.

It is a more useful kanban technique in large-scale, high

variety manufacturing facilities. In this system, each part

has its own special container designed to hold a precise

quantity of that part. Two cards are used: the production

kanban which serves the supplier workstation and the

conveyance kanban, which serves the customer

workstation. Each container cycles from the supplier

workstation to its

stockpoint to the

customer workstation and

its stockpoint, and back

while one kanban is

exchanged for another.

No parts are produced

unless a P-kanban

authorizes it. There is

only one C-kanban and

one P-kanban for each

container and each

container holds a

standard quantity (no

more, no less).

Single-Card

Kanban:- The single-

card kanban system is a

more convenient system

for manufacturing

facilities requiring less

variety in their parts.

Essentially, the single-

card kanban system is

simply a dual-card kanban

system with the absence

of the production kanban

and designated stock

points.

Advantages and disadvantages of Kanban System

Advantages:-

Toyota adopted the “kanban” method to promote efficiency and reduce inventory.

Reduced inventory meant less wastage.

Disadvantages:-

After the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, it swept away japans 4 most important

automobile parts factories. Due to this Toyotas whole kanban system failed, as it worked on

the principle of reduced inventory. Due to this it was not able to quickly recover from the

disaster.

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Nilanjan Majumdar,

MBA 1st Year

It’s been said human soul travels hundreds and thousands of

dismal and caliginous years before its birth. When life starts that is the first time a

soul feels and touches light through its eyes and senses. After such an endured and

rugged dark years light comes up as a blessing. Right from the beginning of a life

light always come across as an envision and reflection of different aspects of life or

its component. Light reflects mind, power, beauty, speed, knowledge, life and death.

Energy is what we

think of when we think of

light. Celestial bodies

sparkling and triggered with

light making life the way it is

around us. It becomes not

only the basic necessity but

the root of life. It is the one on

which this system is

stabilized. With energy comes

power, which is associated

with divine and omnipotent

God and so does light. Rays of

light behind every God depicts the power they exhibit, which concludes the reason

of trust and anticipation we all have in almighty, moreover it vindicates why we

bend our heads down in front of them. They make us realize the fact that there is

some force which exhibits power and can use it.

COURTESY: http://www.speakingtree.in/public/4jbpnaoql71i1yk1dqdyraxx2- SWATI PONNALA

Throughout the

journey of life one always gets

enlightened by one or the other sources.

‘Ray of Knowledge’. All of us are

cognizant of power and importance of

knowledge. Once earned remains with

a soul throughout the lif e and shows its

importance on each and every step.

Thinking about the light another thing which encompasses in mind is speed. Physics

had already proved that speed of light is more than anything else even more than

sound. Speed comes along practice and moves along perfection. Light also depicts

hope that is the reason hope comes in the form of ray, ‘Ray of Hope’. It exhibits a

new beginning, a starting which can bring changes not only in a person’s life and

his persona but his surroundings.

Throughout our journey of life light comes to us in different

phases and moods and we experience its different forms. But this is not just the end,

it’s been told by many who have experienced death from close that in that phase

they move towards a milky white light which just assimilate them. Yes, not just in

the starting of a life or just throughout the life light remains with us till the end and

might be even after that. It’s noticeable that all these aspects connect to each other

in one or the other way.

Connecting these dots while experiencing all these aspects and

notions of light one thing which can’t be overlooked is light within yourself. I believe

it is the most cardinal and consequential to recognize light within yourself and let

your light shine and brighten the world. Human life completes its meaning and

purpose if it does so.

Anupama Chauhan,

MBA 1st year

(Guest Writer)

Designers: DESIGNER DESIGNERS

EDITORIAL TEAM:

EDITOR: MEGHA KSHATRIYA, (MBA -2ND YEAR).

Editorial

Members

Arpita Mathur (MBA- 1ST year)

Sd.Julnar Hafiz (MBA- 1ST year)

Aruna Satpathy (MBA- 2nd year)

Nikita Berry (MBA- 1st year)

Nikhil Turaga (MBA- 1st year)

Nilanjan Manjumder (MBA- 1st year)

Swati Ponnala (MBA- 1st year)

Anupama Chauhan

(Guest writer)

(MBA- 1st year)