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August 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
InformationWeek’s IT Olympics Weblog quotes some of the stats as shown below from the Paris base IT service company called Atos Origin that managed the IT infrastructure at Beijing Olympics.
Systems in Beijing securely processed a more than 80% greater volume of data on competition for media and news agencies worldwide, compared with the Olympics in [...]
August 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Innovation has always been a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps. Ideas, product design were closely held secrets because innovative and radical design has always provided competitive advantage to the company. The firms by patenting the design/ideas usually created a high barrier for competitors to emulate their [...]
August 19, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
The multinational U.S. and European banks are in the news lately due to ongoing credit crunch. All of them are desperately trying to recapitalize and stop their falling stock prices. They are reducing headcount, getting rid of non-performing asset in an effort to survive a volatile environment of purging excesses they created. You might be [...]
August 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Down to Business: The Mind Set of The Indian IT Exec by Rob Preston at InformationWeek is an interesting observation of Indian IT Exec Mind Set from an American journalist perspective. Having talked to several American IT Exec. over the period of several years, Preston visits India for the first time. His observation compares and [...]
August 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Anything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers?
I think [...]
August 7, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Companies that are deriving business value from Web 2.0 tools are now shifting from using them experimentally to adopting them as part of a broader business practice according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey Results titled Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise (you need to register to read the complete article). This survey also shows that [...]
August 6, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The Government agencies in the US are spending billions of dollars on IT investments that are redundant, lack clear goals and are managed by unqualified individuals. Some of the projects have been delayed for more than a decade and are costing billions more than originally budgeted. This is according to the GAO’s (Government Accountability Office) [...]
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Raj Sheelvant has more than 15 years of varied experience in the field of Information Technology and is passionate about aligning IT with Business needs.
Raj strongly believes that IT can be leveraged to create, sustain and enable Business Strategy. This is a blog that demonstrates value added by IT to the Strategy
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