IT Strategy

Borderless Innovation

February 20, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Many of the world’s top multinationals have been leveraging the latest technological developments, their expanding global business networks and even competitors’ expertise to change the way they harness new ideas. But while these tools may make global collaboration easier than ever, there’s plenty of work left to do to make “borderless innovation” deliver, according to Knowledge@Wharton article titled “Borderless Innovation: Stretching Company Boundaries to Come Up with New Ideas”.

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Millennials’ Impact on Organization Structure

February 17, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Accenture High Performance IT research program titled “Jumping The Boundaries Of Corporate IT”, which surveyed 5,595 students and young workers in 13 countries. It uncovers how the Millennial generation uses technology and confirms the Millennial archetype—global citizen, eager adopter of new technologies, willing to improvise to get the job done—but identifies regional differences for CIOs eager to create a technology environment that enables high performance.

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Crowd Sourcing Business Process Improvement

February 13, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Essay in McKinsey Quarterly titled “Using knowledge brokering to improve business process” pose a challenging concept about the possibility of using of open-innovation principles to enhance not only the company’s products but also their core internal business processes.

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2010, The Year of IT Project Managers?

February 9, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Kristen Caretta blog titled “Rise of the middle managers: Jobs in IT project management still hot” in CIO Symmetry points to Global Knowledge survey, jobs in IT project management are the hottest positions for the year 2010.

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Long Tail of Manufacturing

February 1, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

I am back from sabbatical.  It’s time to start blogging on IT Strategy.  Well, I read interesting article in Wired “Next Industrial Revolution Atoms are the New Bits” by Chris Anderson (of Long Tail Fame).

Chris writes that “Transformative change happens when industries democratize, when they’re ripped from the sole domain of companies, governments, and other [...]

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