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February 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
I wanted to revisit Michael Porter’s 1996 HBR classic ‘What is Strategy?’ This paper challenges the commonly held notion that competitors can quickly copy any market position and hence competitive advantage is temporary. This notion indirectly challenges the viability of Strategy planning. The mindset that competitors can copy and implement any strategy is based on [...]
February 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Nicholas Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan — The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” urged us to be aware of the limitations of our observations and experience and to admit the fragility of our “knowledge.” The book’s governing metaphor illustrates the problem. It was assumed that all swans were white until the discovery of black swans [...]
February 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
By observing bugs, bees and birds, we humans can learn a lot about leadership in this new world of collaboration, according to Wired Magazine article ‘What Bugs Can Teach Bosses’. Geese and other animals that naturally form groups can teach humans a lot about team dynamics. Organizational Biomimetics is a term coined by author Ken [...]
February 3, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Executives in wired organizations need to have a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation, says Google’s chief economist Hal Varian. More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their business according to Varian [...]
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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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