How do you group your social contacts in social media?

Friends, acquaintances, colleagues and business partner networks change and evolve constantly. Every day we meet new people, develop relationships with them - personal, business and emotional. These relationships deepen or loosen over time and happen in a very fluid manner. Your friend this morning may not be viewed the same way in the evening and it is not uncommon for one to think of a person two years later, to reach out to him or her and to continue to strengthen the relationship.

Unfortunately the current implementation of social media in Facebook groups and in Google+ circles necessitates having more defined relationships that what it is in practice.

It assumes that all individuals in a group are the same when what you share with one friend is not always what you share with another.  Likewise what one friend may view positively may be negatively by another friend.

Reality is a little different from technology adaptation and care must be exercised when using social media to mirror and support your interactions with others.

Challenges of manufacturing in a globalized world

"Technology increasingly underpins all of our lifestyles. Our homes, our places of work, our hospitals and schools, our towns and cities, and the countryside all bear witness to the impact of new technology on the way we live. There is no sign that the relentless advance of technologies, often made possible by radical advances in manufacturing and delivery of services, is slowing down, despite the very real concerns about impact on the environment and on the distribution of wealth.

But globalisation is not quite working out as many were expecting. Emerging economies are not simply cheap job shops' for the west. They are innovative in their own right, increasingly able to compete at the forefront of skills, technology development and use. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated markets for high value-added products and services, sources of skilled people and opportunities for research and business partnerships." 

Follow this link to know more from leading academic industrialist Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya of Warwick University on Manufacturing in the Globalised World: Challenges Faced by Companies at a talk co-organised by the Singapore Institute of Management.