Archive for February, 2008
PaaS: Platform in the Cloud?
2 comments so farMark Banioff CEO of Salesforce.com, the company that created whole new market segment share for On-Demand delivery model, in an interview with eWeek titled “Platform in the Clouds” talks about the future of Saleforce.com’s On–Demand delivery model. The company is now moving on to logical next step: enabling firms to move their entire IT infrastructure […]
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2008 Year for SaaS Mass Adoption?
No commentsPhil Wainewright in his blog Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008, writes that 2008 is “going to be the year when SaaS becomes impossible to ignore”. Also see Jeff Kaplan’s blog Top Ten Reasons Why On-Demand Services Will Soar in 2008 and Nicholas Carr’s blog 2008: SaaS’s breakout year? both of whom are wrote […]
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Simplicity Minded Management
No commentsOrganizations as they gets larger, add layers of complexity to their organization structure to deal with increasing complex external landscape (Also read my other blog titled Globalization and Managaing Complexity)
Ron Ashkenas in his HBR article “Simplicity Minded Management” writes on how to strip complexity out of organizations. He says that a simplification strategy […]
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War for Talent?
No commentsResearch by McKinsey titled Making Talent a Strategy Priority finds a contradicting trend (This is an extension to their initial paper in 1997 titled ‘War For Talent’). While there is a rising acknowledgement by the executive that in this globalized knowledge economy, the demand for right ‘talent’ far exceeds the existing supply leading to ‘war […]
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Green IT - Hype or Relevant Strategy?
No commentsBrian Watson of CIO Insight on his blog “Does Green IT Matter?” tackles an interesting trend in ‘greening’ of products and services. He says that “regardless of businesses’ motivation, investment in eco-friendly technologies continues to grow—fast”. He talks about a study by KPMG, in which “venture capitalists, bankers, entrepreneurs and others said a quarter of […]
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Nicholas Carr contradicts himself?
1 comment so farRead the interview with Nicholas Carr on CIO insight, titled Nicholas Carr: Why IT will change, where he talks about his new book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
In the interview with Ed Cone, Nicholas Carr defends that “the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least in its familiar […]
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Cisco’s Collaboration Strategy
1 comment so farInformation Week’s article Cisco’s Emerging Collaboration Strategy talks on how Cisco’s Chairman John Chambers intends to build hardware and software solution to take advantage of collaboration that will enable traditional organization to transform its business model. Chambers says that collaboration will fundamentally change the nature of work, enabling productivity growth to soar back […]
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