Prediction

Solving a problem requires good professional skills but predicting a problem in prior needs extremely good analytical skills. Predicting problems early helps us to plan the solution in advance so that the problem can be solved with less side effects. A good example would be the kathiapara project. The traffic at kathiapara has been heavy for a quite long years. Had we anticipated this traffic a bit early, the project could have been implemented without the traffic chaos that has been affecting commuters through the junction. The analysis could have been made using the data such as number of vehicles in the city, the purchase ability of people i.e., if the purchase ability is more, more people would buy vehicles and therefore will lead to increase in traffic and similar other factors.


Predicting problems also has many other advantages like adequate planning of resources, developing an accurate plan, establishment of an efficient implementation team, creating a co-ordination among team members (which is otherwise impossible, since we would be concentrating more on the problem rather than team co-ordination). A separate team can be dedicated for prediction of possible threats and problems, the team must be provided with the necessary details from all departments to derive out the possible problems in the future. Software industry also requires anticipation of problems in the software. It is better to predict the possible bugs that may creep in or possible points of system crash. This will help in embedding proper recovery measures into the software. But, its always better to be cautious that we don't predict too much and create unwanted complexities. A good planner will anticipate problems that will occur in near future with high probability and solving which will benefit most number of customers.

Fostering research

This article suggests an idea to foster research at professional educational institutes.  This suggestion is an amalgamation of solutions that will finally produce the tendency of research amongst the students and professors.  The problem, first with the professors in colleges is that they are satisfied with the salaries they get and don't take the risk of investing time into projects that command more time and resources.  The other problem in which the professors are involved is the state where they are payed minimal salary.  When the professors are provided with a salary that is not in par with their work, they naturally lose interest with the institution they work in and in the end have absolutely no interest towards research.

Not to blame the professors all the time, students on their part also are a major cause for research not being done at colleges.  Students look for enjoyment all the time and when it comes to project, they do it for name sake or some even make an "outright purchase!!".  When one student of a class does this, it spreads to everyone in the class and the whole class gets infected by this syndrome and no body does a worthy project "on their own!".  One way to encourage research among students is to award good cash prizes for outstanding research done.  But, the originality of project must be taken into account.  Only through pure commitment from professors and students can a good research project evolve and this is entirely a collaborated work rather than a success of an individual!