IT StrategyRaj Sheelvant’s blog on harnessing Information Technology to create and sustain competitive advantage for the businesses

Global Talent Hot Spot–US dominance challenged by China, UK

The United States’ status as the world’s biggest talent hotspot is under threat from the countries like UK and China according to the first ever Global Talent Index (GTI) by executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
According to this survey, US will maintain it’s position as the world’s leading country […]

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Democratic and Republican IT Strategy for 2008 US Presidential Elections

“A Different Kind of Culture War” by Edward Cone is an article that states that the outcome of US Presidential Election in 2008 could come down to the way each campaign uses technology.

Both sides have access to same technology, but like business entities cultural differences between each party will indicate how they will be able to leverage […]

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CRM SaaS for Small Businesses

Last week I attended a TiE-Arizona networking event. Clate Mask CEO of Infusion told a group of 50 attendees how the company started and how they have been growing. Infusion sells CRM SaaS products. He passionately talked about the future growth and the mission of the company to radically change the way Small businesses do […]

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Role of IT in the Democratization of Commerce

M.K. Pralahad of ‘Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ and ‘Competing in the Future’ fame, talks about several trends that will lead to the Democratization of Commerce. In his words, there will be greater integration of larger number of producers and consumers in the global economy. Of the several intriguing trends he talks about, […]

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Globalization of Labor - II

Why is Globalization of Labor all of sudden important now? The barrier for job migration has dramatically lowered lately making it easy to move the jobs where the labor is.When we talked about globalization, a decade back, it meant 2 things-

Movement of goods: A typical export/import business. Goods from one country shipped to another […]

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Why Traditional Organizations fail to leverage Web 2.0 technologies

Great article by Herman Mehling in SearchCIO.com, titled IT/BUSINESS STRATEGIES: Wikis in the enterprise face security, compliance challenges. He writes how Wikis have failed to win widespread acceptance in the corporate world. Web 2.0 technologies like Wikis are so radically different that traditional organizations are not structured to take advantage of these emerging technologies. In […]

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A New Breed of IT Workers

In the eWeek.com article IT Workers Second-Guess Career Choice, Deborah Perelman reports a disturbing trend where the IT workers in the US see a bleak future for their career and are discouraging their kids to not pursue IT career. 
Outsourcing, Offshoring, H1B Employees, Commoditization of IT work force are all here to stay, but they […]

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Perils of IT Budgeting

Budgeting has always been tricky for the IT department. The main objective for the IT department is to get budgeting for applications and systems that are strategic in nature (i.e. systems that enable business strategy). Since budgeting is cost-based and finance is always looking for ways to cut cost, ‘keep the lights on’ systems are […]

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