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March 8, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Economist article titled “Clicking for Gold” reports on how the internet companies profit for data on the web. The article notes that traditional businesses generally collect information about customers from their purchases or from surveys, internet companies have the luxury of being able to gather data from everything that happens on their sites. The biggest [...]
November 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Information Week’s article titled “Next-Generation Business Intelligence” (you can download the pdf by clicking on the link here), highlights the new breed of Business Intelligence (BI) tools). The article correctly notes that the next generation of BI technology is still evolving and comes with plenty of risk.
September 2, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
According to InformationWeek article titled “4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence” Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS. Doug Henschen author of this article writes why business intelligence initiatives continue to top CIO priorities …
July 15, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
What is Googlenomics? Wired Magazine article by Steven Levy titled “Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitablity” defines Googlenomics as dependency of Google on economic principles to hone what has become the search engine of choice for more than 60 percent of all Internet surfers, and then uses auction theory to grease the skids of its own operations.
June 8, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
When a company like Coca Cola, which has several flavored drinks wants to know what its customers prefer, what does it do? Well, it intends to use IT to monitor the pulse of its customers. According to Information Week article titled “Coke’s RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence”, Coke plans to roll out the Freestyle drink [...]
April 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IBM, a premier computer hardware company, I think is known for reinventing itself successfully. First after being outsmarted by Microsoft in late1980s, IBM reinvented itself. Lot of people believed, IBM cannot survive. Read the details of the turnaround by the then CEO Louis Gerstner in his book titled ‘Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s [...]
March 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Clay Shirky, in his TED talk, shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. He highlights the constraints of institutions and demonstrates how collaborative Web 2.0 fills in the gap left by the institution.
Shirky, a prescient voice on the [...]
March 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The CRM tools can empower customer facing employees to help organizations achieve growth strategy. In this current economic downturn, with increased hyper-competition the pressure is on for the organizations to continually keep track of customer pulse. This will enable the organizations understand changing customer need constantly.
CRM tools can play a pivotal role to create 4 [...]
October 29, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
eWeek article titled Seven Disruptive Trends Driving the Digital Revolution has re-published a synopsis of top trends to watch. This list is originally published by CSE and you can read the 96 page report here.
Here is the list from the article
New Media: The Internet has become the new media. What some call Web 2.0 is [...]
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 [...]
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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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