Archive for April, 2008
Can businesses leverage Web 2.0?
1 comment so farConventional wisdom says any organization can become Web 2.0 enabled; it’s a matter of deploying Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis, and Ajax applications. But that’s just a coat of paint - to be really Web 2.0-enabled requires a complete change of business model. This according to Tim O’ Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media in […]
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Is IT Strategic in the New Age of Innovation?
No commentsWith their new book New Age of Innovation – Driving Cocreated Value through Global Network, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure-one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. I have not read the book yet, but I have been checking out […]
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Explaining Success of Social Media
No commentsJimmy Wales and “a band of volunteers,” created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future. In TED conference he explains how the collaborative approach works, and why it succeeds. ‘Wikinomics’ also tries to explain the rise in social media and reason for the success. Altruism, Anti Establishment and Super Ego gratification are […]
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Dell’s Turnaround Strategy
No commentsMichael Dell declared his interview in 2006 with Knowledge@Wharton that supply chain efficiencies and direct sales gave the company a competitive edge. If you use Porter’s Generic Strategy, clearly supply chain efficiencies and direct sales model allowed Dell to pursue Cost Leadership Strategy.
By late 2006, Dell started loosing market segment share (MSS) to […]
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Global IT Spending Growth for 2008 Remains Stable
No commentsGartner First Quarter Worldwide CIO Survey shows IT Budget Growth remains broadly stable. Despite economic concerns, global enterprise IT budget growth remains unchanged at 3.3 percent in 2008, according to a worldwide survey of 1,011 CIOs conducted in the first quarter of 2008 by Gartner, Inc., as reported by CNBC. Gartner, Inc. is […]
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