Archive for July, 2008
Testing GM’s IT Strategy
No commentsSUV and pickup sales have been plunging in the US due to rising gas price. GM, a major player in the SUV and Trucks market, is planning of changing manufacturing capability from building big gas guzzlers to building small cars. Ability to adapt to changing customer need due to this new reality (high […]
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Smaller and Faster IT Projects
No commentsProject management is changing. Rather than plotting a big project from start to finish before pulling the trigger, CIOs should get comfortable with doing shorter projects according to the SearchCIO.com article “Project Management needs to think small, faster”. Another observation the article makes is that metrics for project success is also changing. Now […]
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Tribalization of Business
No commentsThe ‘2008 Tribalization of Business’ study conducted by Beeline Labs, Deloitte and Society of New Communication looks at how companies are harnessing the collective wisdom (collaborating with employees and customers) to innovate faster, reduce costs, grow the business and bolster the bottom line.
You have to register to get the entire study. But […]
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Emerging Role of IT in the Marketing Strategy of Coco-Cola
No commentsCoco-Cola has been a leader in non-alcoholic beverage industry and has dominated that market over the past century. But due to globalization, the beverage market has become more volatile, where fickle customers constantly switch drinks. Global beverage market is also getting fragmented at a faster pace with new products being introduced by the […]
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Future of Enterprise Application
No commentsIn an interview with published in Khowledge@Wharton, Bill McDermott CEO of SAP Americas talks about the future of Enterprise Application (you have to sign up to read the article). You can watch the entire interview below. But here are some of the experts from the interview. (Also read my previous blog Future of […]
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Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ Strategy
1 comment so farMicrosoft announced its “Oslo” strategy last year as part of an overall service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative, but Oslo is about much more than SOA. It is Microsoft’s core modeling technology that will help take Microsoft deep into the cloud. This, according to eWeek’s article Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud.
Article quotes Steven Martin, senior […]
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Role of IT in demand forecasting
1 comment so farForecasting has become more and more complex lately. Customers are less loyal to the brand and global competition has become fiercer, making it difficult to predict sales. Adding to the problem: Products, sales and distribution channels all have proliferated, and the life spans of products have gotten shorter. As a result, some companies […]
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Lean Software Development
1 comment so farLean System in manufacturing focuses on reducing inefficiency by institutionalizing continuous improvement of process as well as the quality of the product. The Lean System characteristics have been applied in the software development with the framework known as Agile Software Development. It has a potential to have dramatic impact on the final software […]
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New IT Employee Benchmarks
No commentsOrganizations are looking for a well-rounded, enthusiastic people with tech ‘instinct’ to fill their IT department ranks according to Deb Perelman (read her blogs here) in the eWeek article dated June 16, 2008 page 37 (I could not find the link).
According to the article, the CIO and IT managers want to fill their IT department […]
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