Posted by Sankar Konduru, Senior Industry Principal, Oracle Practice, Infosys
To start with, let me tell you a bit about my latest interactions with my son. While I reason out every choice he makes these days - right from the color of his shirt to the flavor of coffee, we end up with some surprising choice patterns when these transactions finally end. I think, It is not uncommon to have these surprises from your kids, especially if they are moving from the days of 'you making choices for them' to the state of 'let me try to make my own choices' on everything that matters to them. If you go one level deeper into my kid's behavior pattern analysis, I feel, his surprising choice pattern is due to the wide range of options available creating equal amount of confusion in his mind while making these choices.
Close to work, we observe a similar pattern of surprising choice making with our customers these days. Funny, it may sound, but the comparison with an adolescent's choice patterns is very apt. Agreed, the situations which my son gets into every time are very far-fetched from a real business problem which our customers face these days. But just like I own responsibility to handle my son's choices, we gleefully work with our customers to resolve these issues and provide right business solutions / choices.
The moot point is, if we ever end up with only type of behavior pattern to handle during our professional work. The answer is a big NO, obviously. We get to work with all kinds of customers with very varied business problems and behavior patterns. Hence, it is good for us to have such behavior pattern analyzed and explored further.