16 Sebab Kegagalan PerniagaanOleh: Irfan Khairi

Berikut adalah sebab-sebab kegagalan perniagaan. Pastikan andamenjauhinya!

1: Tiada matlamatTiada matlamat yang jelas apa yang ingin dicapai oleh perniagaanyang dibina. Apakah matlamat perniagaan anda dalam masa 1 tahundari sekarang? Apakah matlamat perniagaan anda dalam masa 3 tahundari sekarang? Apakah matlamat perniagaan anda dalam masa 5 tahundari sekarang? Apakah matlamat perniagaan anda 10 tahun darisekarang? Matlamat akan menentukan arah tuju sesuatu perniagaan.Tanpa matlamat yang jelas, perniagaan tidak mempunyai daya danmotivasi untuk berkembang.

2: Tidak mengutamakan pelangganPelanggan merupakan aset utama apa sahaja perniagaan. Utamakanpelanggan oleh kerana apa sahaja perniagaan berfungsi untukmemenuhi keperluan pelanggan. Ianya sering dikatakan dalambuku-buku perniagaan bahawa pelanggan adalah raja!

3: Tidak usahakan jualanKeuntungan perniagaan datangnya dari jualan. Amat jarang sekalisesuatu jualan akan datang dengan sendiri. Usahawan perlumengusahakan untuk mendapatkan jualan. Pastikan momentum diteruskanuntuk mendapat jualan demi jualan oleh kerana tanpa jualan, tiadakeuntungan!

4: Tidak sabarNaluri ramai usahawan adalah untuk menjadi kaya dengan segera.Perniagaan perlu dilihat untuk mendapat keuntungan jangka waktupanjang dan bukan meraih keuntungan maksima pada jangka waktusingkat.

5: Gagal meletakkan prioritiIanya dikatakan, 20% daripada usaha akan menghasilkan 80% daripadapulangan. Kesilapan ketara bagi mereka yang tidak bijak meletakkanprioriti adalah memberi fokus kepad 80% usaha perniagaan yang hanyamemberi 20% daripada pulangan. Agihkan kerja-kerja perniagaan yangtidak memerlukan masa dan tenaga anda kepada orang lain supayatenaga dan masa anda dapat ditumpukan pada aktiviti 20% yangmemberi keuntungan 80%.

6: Melakukan sesuatu di luar bidangSebaiknya, jalankan perniagaan di mana letaknya kekuatan anda.Memulakan perniagaan yang bukan dalam kekuatan anda hanya akanmengurangkan motivasi anda.

7: Tidak mempunyai daya saingan pada produk atau perkhidmatanPersaingan semakin sengit dalam arena perniagaan. Sesuatuperniagaan perlu mempunyai daya saingan yang hebat berbandingdengan pesaing dari segi lebih baik, atau lebih murah, atau lebihpantas dari pesaing. Tanpa daya saingan untuk membezakan andadengan pesaing, ianya hanya akan menenggelamkan perniagaan anda.

8: Produk tidak memenuhi keperluan pelangganMempunyai produk untuk dijual adalah langkah utama memulakanperniagaan. Namun, dengan mempunyai produk sahaja, tidak mencukupi.Produk yang dijual perlu dapat memenuhi keperluan pelanggan.Mungkin anda ingin jual bahan kosmetik untuk memutihkan kulit,tetapi produk anda bukan sahaja memutihkan wajah pengguna, ianyamenyebabkan kulit berminyak di wajah pengguna pula. Maka, produktersebut tidak dapat memenuhi keperluan pengguna.

9: Produk dan perkhidmatan pelanggan yang tidak berkualitiZaman ini, pelanggan mementingkan kualiti produk dan perkhidmatanpelanggan. Oleh kerana persaingan semakin tinggi, terdapatberbagai-bagai pilihan yang boleh dibuat oleh pelanggan. Produk danperkhidmatan yang berkualiti akan menjadi pilihan utama.

10: Gagal mengenalpasti pelangganSiapakah bakal pelanggan anda? Dimana komuniti bakal pelanggananda? Apakah kemampuan kewangan bakal pelanggan anda? Bagaimanacaranya anda boleh mencapai bakal pelanggan anda? Strategiperniagaan adalah menetapkan tumpuan pasaran anda (niche market).Dengan menetapkan tumpuan pasaran anda, ianya adalah lebih mudahmengenalpasti pelanggan anda untuk melakukan sebarang jualan.

11: Lemah dalam urusan kewanganFahami angka kewangan perniagaan anda. Pastikan setiap transaksiperniagaan diambil kira dan walaupun bunyinya mudah, namun, terlalubanyak perniagaan membelanja lebih daripada apa yang diterima.Bijak dalam berbelanja untuk perniagaan, walaupun usahawan perlumengambil risiko kewangan, namun risiko yang terbaik adalah risikoyang telah diselidik.

12. Gagal mengikut trend semasa dan pasaranTrend dan pasaran berubah mengikut masa. Satu ketika dulu, walkmanmenjadi pilihan utama muda mudi berhibur, kini trend sudah berubahmenjadi pemain MP3! Usahawan perlu peka kepada trend semasa danpasaran supaya perniagaan sering dikemaskini mengikut arus zaman.

13: Perbelanjaan overhed yang tinggiSeringkali kos overhed memakan segala keuntungan perniagaan.Pastikan kos overhed adalah pada minimum. Kos overhed termasuk koselektrik, kos pekerja, kos premis, kos air, kos Internet dansebagainya. Kos overhed akan sentiasa dikenakan setiap bulan.Sekiranya kos overhed mencecah RM20,000 setiap bulan, maka,keuntungan perniagaan perlu melebihi RM20,000 hanya untuk mendapatkeuntungan.

14: Tiada perancangan perniagaanTidak melakukan perancangan adalah merancang untuk gagal. Sediakanpelan dan langkah-langkah untuk mengembangkan perniagaan anda.Aturkan strategi pemasaran dalam mendapat pelanggan yang ramai.Perniagaan menjadi cemerlang bukan kerana nasib, tetapi keranaperancangan perniagaan yang lengkap.

15: Perancangan tanpa tindakanPerancangan hanyalah langkah pertama. Perancangan tanpa tindakansusulan tidak akan membuahkan hasil! Pastikan apa yang dirancang,diimplementasikan. Apa akan terjadi sekiranya apa yang dilaksanakantidak menjadi dan gagal? Tidak mengapa, kegagalan akan mengajaranda untuk mengubah perancangan. Kegagalan adalah guru yang palingbaik dalam perniagaan sekiranya anda membenarkan diri andamempelajari dari kesilapan.

16. Gagal berhubung dengan pekerjaSememangnya agak sukar menjalankan perniagaan dengan sendiri tanpamengagihkan kerja kepada pihak lain. Fahami kehendak dan keperluanpekerja oleh kerana pekerja akan membantu memajukan perniagaananda. Hubungan yang baik dengan pekerja akan memberi motivasikepada pekerja untuk berusaha dengan lebih tinggi dalam memajukanperniagaan anda.

Dengan mengetahui dan memahami sebab-sebab kegagalan perniagaan,ianya dapat membantu anda menghindari dari kegagalan perniagaan.Namun begitu, perlu diingat juga bahawa, sekiranya sekiranya rezekiperniagaan tidak menyebelahi anda dan anda menghadapi kegagalan,gagal sekali, bukan bermaksud gagal selamanya. Teruskan usaha olehkerana kejayaan sering dijumpa disebalik kegagalan!

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WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ? - Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss.Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

"Jack Welch of GE once said. A company's value lies "between the ears of its employees".

Queensbay Mall Penang - The cause for the massive traffic jam from Bayan Lepas FIZ to Penang Bridge during evening since it Opening.

Queensbay Mall - The cause for the massive traffic jam from Bayan Lepas FIZ to Penang Bridge during evening since it Opening.

Queensbay Mall with a gross built up of 2.5 million sq ft and more than 1 million sq ft net lettable area will emerge as the largest, longest and most modern shopping mall in Penang Island.

It is in the heart of a prime waterfront development, supported by up-scale residential (semi-ds, bungalow, villas, condominiums) and commercial (shop offices, corporate suites, corporate towers, service apartments, hotels etc) developments sprawling over a land area of 73 acres. Surrounded by a well established neighbourhood of affluent catchments such as Bayan Lepas, Sri Nibong, Sg. Dua, Greenlane, and Island Glade. It is minutes away from the Penang Bridge and close to prominent landmarks such as Penang International Airport, Bukit Jambul Country Club and highly populated institutions including University Science Malaysia, Penang Silicon Valley or Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone (FIZ), INTI International College and Penang Skills Development Centre.

Queensbay Mall will be the preferred retail destination and a real shoppers' paradise - with 5 levels of retail and 8 levels of parking, Jusco as its anchor tenant, 17 junior anchors and more than 500 retail merchants. Several international brands will be opening up their first or flagship outlet in Queensbay Mall.

Introduction to DSP. Basics: What is DSP?

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is used in a wide variety of applications, and it is hard to find a good definition that is general.
We can start by dictionary definitions of the words:


Digital
operating by the use of discrete signals to represent data in the form of numbers


Signal
a variable parameter by which information is conveyed through an electronic circuit


Processing
to perform operations on data according to programmed instructions


Which leads us to a simple definition of:
Digital Signal processing
changing or analysing information which is measured as discrete sequences of numbers


Note two unique features of Digital Signal processing as opposed to plain old ordinary digital processing:
-signals come from the real world - this intimate connection with the real world leads to many unique needs such as the need to react in real time and a need to measure signals and convert them to digital numbers
-signals are discrete - which means the information in between discrete samples is lost


The advantages of DSP are common to many digital systems and include:


Versatility:
-digital systems can be reprogrammed for other applications (at least where programmable DSP chips are used)
-digital systems can be ported to different hardware (for example a different DSP chip or board level product)


Repeatability:
-digital systems can be easily duplicated
-digital systems do not depend on strict component tolerances
-digital system responses do not drift with temperature


Simplicity:
-some things can be done more easily digitally than with analogue systems


DSP is used in a very wide variety of applications.
but most share some common features:

-they use a lot of maths (multiplying and adding signals)
-they deal with signals that come from the real world
-they require a response in a certain time


Where general purpose DSP processors are concerned, most applications deal with signal frequencies that are in the audio range.

MAS Boeing 777




"AIRLINERS.NET"

About 10 seconds after liftoff from runway 19R something happens with the left engine. Alot of smoke and fragments of metal and other material falls down on the runway. At first the pilots don't get any indications in the cockpit and plan to go on to Kuala Lumpur. Then we decide to call Arlanda duty officer to make sure that they have noticed the pieces from the engine on the runway. Shortly after that the pilots requests fueldump and return to ARN safely. [Nikon D70, Nikkor 80-200 f2.8] - Fredrik Granberg

Electronics Communication

Question 1

a) Define simplex, half-duplex and full duplex communications and give an example of each type.

ANSWER:

Simplex – one way communications. Information travels in one direction only. Examples are such as radio and TV broadcasting.

Half-duplex – two way communications. Information travels in both direction but alternate. Only one party transmits/receive at a time. Examples are such as CB radio, amateur radio and walkie-talkie.

Full-duplex – two way communications. Information travels in both direction and simultaneously. Example is such as telephone system.
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