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

Is ‘Cloud Computing’ Feasible?

 
According to Nicholas Carr, in his new book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google we’re in the midst of a transition in computing, moving from our own private hard drives to the computer as access portal. Soon all companies and individuals will outsource their computing systems, from programming to data storage, […]

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Google and Microsoft’s Data Center Strategy

“In the future, the competition between Google and Microsoft in the Web search business might be determined as much by data center energy efficiency as by which company writes the best search algorithm”. This according to the Business Week article “It’s too darn hot”.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, data centers will require […]

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‘Just in Time’ Talent Management

“Managing supply chain is about managing uncertainty and variability. This same uncertainty exists inside companies with regard to talent development. Companies rarely know what they will be building five years out and what skills they will need to make that happen; they also don’t know if the people they have in their pipelines are going […]

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Evolving relation between IT and Business

In the mid-1990s, IT was mainly perceived as a cost center. Many organizations did not understand the full fledged role of IT in an organizations. According to the article “Strategic IT takes stage at financial services firm”, only 5% of employees, at most, understood what IT was or could do for the company. […]

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Future of Enterprise Software

To help maximize ROI for the Enterprise Applications for the CIOs Forester in a report titled Enterprise Software in 2017 tries to look into the crystal ball to predict the future of Enterprise Application (EA). Also, read concise overview of that report in the article by Enterprise Systems titled Enterprise Software Future profiled in Report.
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Green IT Strategy

A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that executives view climate change issues as important for their companies, seeing both opportunity and risk. 60 percent of global executives view climate change as important to consider within their companies’ overall strategy. Further, nearly 70 percent see it as an important consideration for managing corporate reputation and brands.

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Pervasive Business Intelligence

Cindi Hawson in her article on Intelligent Enterprise titled The Road to Pervasive BI writes that organizations which can better understand and reap value from data to deliver best-in-class service, boost revenue, and increase operating efficiencies have implemented Business Intelligence (BI) that is pervasive in nature i.e BI tools used not only by business analysts, […]

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