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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Indian IT Exec Mind Set

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 [...]

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Infosys’s Globalization Strategy

June 23, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Creation of diverse workforce would be the greatest challenge for corporations in a globalized world, says Infosys Technologies’ chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy according to Silicon India article “Creating diverse workforce greatest challenge for global firms”.
In a bid to address this daunting challenge, Infosys has built a global base to grow in the [...]

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Enterprise of the Future: Globally Integrated

June 12, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Labor arbitrage and riding the wave of economic growth in China and India — are being replaced by a new focus: global integration, according to IBM Global CEO Study titled “The Enterprise of the Future“. “Globally Integrated” is the third of the five characteristics that define the Enterprise of the Future (Read the summary [...]

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Negotiation Skill for IT Managers

May 31, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  1 Comment

Wall Street Journal Article titled Art of Persuasion Becomes Key talks about recent changes due to globalization that has elevated the need for managers to improve their influencing skill. Today, managers work more often with peers where lines of authority that aren’t clear or doesn’t exist. Large problems need help from personnel from [...]

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McKinsey’s 7-S Strategy Framework

May 1, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

McKinsey introduced the 7-S framework for strategy in the late 1970s, The framework maps seven interrelated factors that influence an organization’s ability to change—shared values, skills, staff, strategy, structure, style, and systems—and shows how these forces interact.

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Managing Diversity in IT Department through Cultural Intelligence

January 24, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  3 Comments

Mike Vizard, Editorial Director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise makes a poignant remark about the importance of diversity in the IT department in his blog “Diversity in IT Has Become a Business Imperative”. I agree with his view that “the great issue of the day in technology is not the technology but rather the people within [...]

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Cultural Intelligence for IT Workers

November 4, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

What is Cultural Intelligence?  Cultural Intelligence or Cultural Quotient (CQ) is a theory within Organization Psychology and Management that is focused on understanding the impact of individual behavior in the context of his/her national culture. To be globally competitive, an IT Worker needs to acquire knowledge and skills to understand unique culture of diverse individuals [...]

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Evolving role of the IT Project Manager

October 3, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant  |  8 Comments

The role of the IT project manager (PM) is being redefined. In addition to making sure the project is progressing as planned, in today’s environment the PM needs to be good in 2 more areas

Effectively manage resources and customers that are mobile and globally located
Understand the business and marketing strategy of the customer because [...]

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