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November 2, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Great article titled “CIO: Don’t attempt BPM system without mapping process flows” by Niel Nickolaisen on importance of understanding process flow before selecting Business Process Management (BPM) system.
October 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
IT department’s role is to leverage the virtualized architecture and collaboration technology to quickly support each acquired company’s business processes. Thus, IT department of Cisco under the leadership of CIO Rebecca Jacoby, intends to lower the acquired company’s costs, while enabling it to add value to Cisco.
July 22, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In the Enterprise Systems article “Why Enterprise Clouds Are Inevitable” by Stephen Swoyer, the author tries to re-classify and redefine cloud computing. Quoting Stephen Elliot, vice-president of strategy with CA Inc, the author evaluates if the cloud computing is a hype or a disruptive IT infrastructure that will challenge current Enterprise IT model.
June 24, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
SAP unveiled their new strategy for delivering software over the internet, as the German software group struggles to respond to a market that poses a significant long-term threat to its business according to the FT.com article “SAP reshapes strategy for online software”. Also read WSJ article “SAP to make Online Software Push”.
SaaS (Software as a [...]
May 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
At the sixth annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the current role of CIO in an organization was challenged according to Linda Tucci in CIO.com article titled “Experts: CIO moving more into business, process optimization”. She writes that what companies really need is a Chief Simplicity Officer, someone who can commoditize IT services that offer no [...]
May 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The combination of expense cuts and increased productivity is driving a push towards a growing use of remote collaboration software and equipments according to FT.com article ‘Virtual conference victory for Cisco Systems’. The article states that companies are accelerating their deployments of high-definition video conferencing gear made by the likes of Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.
Rapid acceptance [...]
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 [...]
March 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
McKinsey has identified ways to make Social Network or Web 2.0 work for the traditional organizations. In an article titled ‘Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work‘, they lay out strategies that can make Web 2.0 work.
1 The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top: Web 2.0 projects often are seen as [...]
December 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
There is lot of talk on how Twitter and other kinds of microblogging tools are making on to the enterprise level. Ed Cone, at CIO Insight in his blog titled ‘Enterprise Twitterring Comes of Age’ points out that for some smaller companies, Twitter as a sales/promotional tool could be invaluable.
Similarly Chris Poley in his blog [...]
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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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