Archive for August, 2007
Virgin America’s IT Strategy
3 comments so farWall Street Journal tech blog, How to Do IT on the Cheap is about the IT strategy at Virgin America. If you have paid access to Wall Street Journal’s Web Site then you can also read about Virgin America flies new IT path. Both these articles discuss how Virgin America is breaking new ground when […]
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Attention HR: Young workers demand Web 2.0
1 comment so farInformation Week article “Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job” talks about how Web 2.0 has become important part of social life for the new generation workers.
Our company has its own internal blogging and its interesting to see that the young hires and interns start blogging almost instantaneously. In some cases, I […]
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Knowledge Worker and Resource Allocation
No commentsThe Knowledge worker is still perceived as a semi-skilled or an unskilled worker by the mid level executives. This is how it typically plays out in a budget meeting. One of the finance management member looks at the amount that is being spent on sustaining the application that has been in production for past 2 […]
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SaaS in Large Organizations
1 comment so farSaaS or On-Demand application delivery as a disruptive delivery model is challenging traditional
Enterprise applications. Adoption rate is the fastest in the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) space. But, large multinational organizations are slow to embrace the on-demand delivery model.
SaaS has both pros and cons as explained in my previous blog. But, its not the […]
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Making Enterprise Application SaaSy!
1 comment so farAfter 15 years being IT Organizations’ central focus, Enterprise applications are getting old and decrepit and desperately needs a facelift. Like it or not these applications can now be classified as Legacy system (Read Koch’s IT Strategy Blog Riding the ERP Bus Forever for more on ‘Legacy’ Enterprise systems). Implementation and Integration […]
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Globalization of Labor
No commentsAs organizations begin to span the globe, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to the corporate executives to manage these resources. Since each knowledge resource is unique, a lot of effort needs to go into understanding the uniqueness of each person. The question then arises - how do you build the ‘relationship’ if the labor is dispersed […]
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Information and Intelligence
No commentsGreat blog by Mike Vizard called IT Needs to Be About Intelligence Not Information on the need for IT executives to ferret out intelligence from information. Evolution of Information Age: In the early years of Information Age, the one with the access to exclusive information had the power. As information started to become more democratized with the Internet, the person who was able to organize the information was in demand. Now, with accelerated Democratization with the advent of Web 2.0 (bloging, social network etc.) there has been an information…
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HR and IT Strategy
No commentsIT is knowledge based and one of the important issues faced by IT management is ‘people issue’. This issue not only revolves around hiring, training etc. that can be classified as ‘Talent Management’, it also involves cultural issues (both organizational and country culture as more and more organization become global). In this evolving complexity, one department that needs to be at the center of this is…
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