IT Strategy

Business needs to shape IT architecture

July 28, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment

The Chief Architect—the overall IT-architecture program leader—is frequently selected from within the technical ranks, bringing deep IT know-how but little direct experience or influence in leading a business-wide change program. A weak linkage to the business creates a void that limits the quality of the resulting IT architecture and the organization’s ability to enforce and [...]

Improving Product Development Performance with Social Computing?

July 19, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment

Interesting article titled ”Going Social with Product Development” (you have to provide personal details to download the pdf article) notes that the Social computing and “Web 2.0” technologies show significant promise to raise the bar on product innovation, product development, and engineering performance. The intersection of product development software and social computing disciplines, or “Social [...]

Dell’s Cloud Strategy

April 1, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Dell continues to broaden its cloud computing offerings, taking the wraps off a series of turnkey cloud solutions according to the ServerWatch article titled “Dell Expands Cloud Computing and Service Strategy”. This indicates Dell’s move to focus on service and solutions (similar to the move made by HP). Dell had defined it as a part of “Simplifying IT” strategy.

How to Evaluate Progress against Budget

March 28, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments

All Project Manager requires to deliver on right time and under budget. But how do you measure your progression against budget to recognize if you’re on course? In this article, we’ll state to you how to do it. So read on to learn…

Bullwhip Effect and automation of Supply Chain

March 22, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Bullwhip effect is an important concept in Supply Chain Management. This is the phenomenon when a slight change in demand gets amplified as you move away from the customers in the value chain. As the Supply Chain has become streamlined and automated, the risk of Bullwhip Effect diminishes, Right? Well that’s not true. Knowledge@W. P. [...]

Management by Analytics?

March 8, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Economist article titled “Clicking for Gold” reports on how the internet companies profit for data on the web. The article notes that traditional businesses generally collect information about customers from their purchases or from surveys, internet companies have the luxury of being able to gather data from everything that happens on their sites. The biggest [...]

What’s the role of IT Business Analyst?

March 2, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

In a blog post by Kristen Caretta titled “Do You Need a Project Manager and a Business Analyst?” writes that organizations of all shapes and sizes are considering not just a strong project manager to lead their efforts, but also a business analyst to guide the content of those efforts.

Borderless Innovation

February 20, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Many of the world’s top multinationals have been leveraging the latest technological developments, their expanding global business networks and even competitors’ expertise to change the way they harness new ideas. But while these tools may make global collaboration easier than ever, there’s plenty of work left to do to make “borderless innovation” deliver, according to Knowledge@Wharton article titled “Borderless Innovation: Stretching Company Boundaries to Come Up with New Ideas”.

Millennials’ Impact on Organization Structure

February 17, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Accenture High Performance IT research program titled “Jumping The Boundaries Of Corporate IT”, which surveyed 5,595 students and young workers in 13 countries. It uncovers how the Millennial generation uses technology and confirms the Millennial archetype—global citizen, eager adopter of new technologies, willing to improvise to get the job done—but identifies regional differences for CIOs eager to create a technology environment that enables high performance.

Crowd Sourcing Business Process Improvement

February 13, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Essay in McKinsey Quarterly titled “Using knowledge brokering to improve business process” pose a challenging concept about the possibility of using of open-innovation principles to enhance not only the company’s products but also their core internal business processes.

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IT Strategy

Business needs to shape IT architecture

Improving Product Development Performance with Social Computing?

Dell’s Cloud Strategy

How to Evaluate Progress against Budget

Bullwhip Effect and automation of Supply Chain

Management by Analytics?

What’s the role of IT Business Analyst?

Borderless Innovation

Millennials’ Impact on Organization Structure

Crowd Sourcing Business Process Improvement

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