Amit Kumar's Blog

Decision making is an important activity, not only for executives but for everyone in the world. In our day to day life, we make lot of decisions. Starting from choosing between chocolate and strawberry to life and death, we make tons of quick decisions unconsciously. Some of these decisions may not be so important but some can be really vital and may result in disaster. We choose actions from opinions via mental processes which are influenced by biases, reason, emotions and memories.  While pursuing AMDA Silver certification, I came across a white paper on Decision Making which explained lot of interesting hidden traps that a decision maker may ignore while decision making. In this blog, I would like to share some of those common traps which we should avoid while making a decision. Anchoring Trap : When considering a decision, mind gives disproportionate weight to the first information it receives. You can try it!! If I ask you two questions: a)  ...

Hi Everyone!!   Yesterday, I was having a discussion with one of my colleague on how to empower your web page to make it visible on the first page when searched from a search engine like Google. Just putting across my understanding on the same based on learning from several sources–   Search engine has always fascinated me in the way it searches across millions of pages, filter them and gives us the pages which we want. There is definitely a smart algorithm that does the background work.   Crawler-based search engines – This type of search engines use a process called Web crawling / spidering.   Such search engines (e.g. Google) create their listings automatically. They crawl (in literal terms) the web and then people search through what they have found. If we change our web pages, such search engines eventually detect the changes and that can affect how the web pages are listed. Details on web crawling could be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cr...