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March 22, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Bullwhip effect is an important concept in Supply Chain Management. This is the phenomenon when a slight change in demand gets amplified as you move away from the customers in the value chain. As the Supply Chain has become streamlined and automated, the risk of Bullwhip Effect diminishes, Right? Well that’s not true. Knowledge@W. P. [...]
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.
September 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
SearchCIO-Midmarket.com article by Christina Torode titled “ERP case study: Implementing ERP to manage growth, fix legacy issues” reports ERP Implementation Strategy for Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. Peet’s is a specialty coffee roaster and marketer of fresh-roasted whole-bean coffee and tea with 2008 revenue of …
June 8, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 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 [...]
January 21, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Software as a Service is not a ‘game-changer’ in the enterprise software market. According to Information Week, listed below are the 6 things that must happen for SaaS to gain widespread acceptance in 2009. Click here to read the entire article.
1) Get Commitment from Microsoft, Oracle and SAP: Although Salesforce.com, Google and other startups are [...]
July 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Coca-Cola has been a leader in non-alcoholic beverage industry and has dominated that market over the past century. But due to globalization, the beverage market has become more volatile, where fickle customers constantly switch drinks. Global beverage market is also getting fragmented at a faster pace with new products being introduced by the emerging companies. [...]
November 21, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
When an organization evaluates several Enterprise Application (EA) Vendors and zeros in on a suite, they will begin to notice that all the elements of their firm’s ‘value chain’ cannot be mapped to the business process modules provided by that EA. What it mean is that the EA Suite cannot be used ‘as is’ for [...]
November 11, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
When an organization starts as a small firm, there is usually no financial bandwidth to implement an elaborate Enterprise Application. The firm is usually functioning on a shoe string budget. The most important resource, capital is extremely scarce and is allocated very carefully to create a steady cash flow. Enterprise Application, though helps set a [...]
October 29, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 7 Comments
The biggest advantage of SaaS CRM is that, very little in house resources are utilized in deploying, maintaining and integrating the CRM application. The vendor does most of the work and thus SaaS delivery model looks tempting from a financial perspective. As it turns out it is not advantageous to have SaaS delivery model for [...]
August 20, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
SaaS or On-Demand application delivery as a disruptive delivery model is challenging traditional
Enterprise applications. Adoption rate is the fastest in the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) space. But, large multinational organizations are slow to embrace the on-demand delivery model.
SaaS has both pros and cons as explained in my previous blog. But, its not the [...]
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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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