Archive for November, 2007
Jet Blue’s IT Strategy
No commentsDavid Neeleman, founder and former CEO of Jet Blue, an American Domestic Airlines Company, has had lot of experience starting and running a low cost Airlines business. He co-founded low budget charter Airlines Company called Morris Air in 1980s and then sold it to Southwest Airlines in 1993. He was also a high level executive […]
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Bottom up Management
No commentsHCL Technologies, an Indian Info tech company is taking a unique approach to hold its management accountable. In the article titled Employee is always right, Business Week investigates new and quirky approach the company is taking where every employee gets to grade the performance of their managers! Not only that, everyone gets to see those […]
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Enterprise Application and Firm’s Core Competency
No commentsWhen an organization evaluates several Enterprise Application (EA) Vendors and zeros in on a suite, they will begin to notice that all the elements of their firm’s ‘value chain’ cannot be mapped to the business process modules provided by that EA. What it mean is that the EA Suite cannot be used ‘as is’ for […]
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Global Talent War
No commentsThe country that lays a strong infrastructure which in turn allows its citizens to innovate will be able to lead in the near future according to the author of Extreme Future Dr. Canton. Competitive Advantage of a country will now be more dependent on creating, nurturing and attracting the best available talent. As global talent […]
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Enterprise Application Implementation Strategy
1 comment so farWhen an organization starts as a small firm, there is usually no financial bandwidth to implement an elaborate Enterprise Application. The firm is usually functioning on a shoe string budget. The most important resource, capital is extremely scarce and is allocated very carefully to create a steady cash flow. Enterprise Application, though helps set a […]
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Model IT Department at Genentech
1 comment so farGenentech is a San Francisco based Biotech firm. I read an interesting article about Genentech’s IT Department in Financial Times titled Soft skills reinvent IT’s place in business
Todd Pierce who is the VP of Corporate IT of Genentech is instrumental in changing the way the IT department functions. I think, they have […]
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Cultural Intelligence for IT Workers
No commentsWhat is Cultural Intelligence? Cultural Intelligence or Cultural Quotient (CQ) is a theory within Organization Psychology and Management that is focused on understanding the impact of individual behavior in the context of his/her national culture. To be globally competitive, an IT Worker needs to acquire knowledge and skills to understand unique culture of diverse individuals […]
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