Software Quality
No commentsIT management tends to define QA as being simply “testing”. As such, they often view QA as just bringing in some warm bodies to run some test scripts once the coding is all finished. There is actually far more to QA than just testing, and there is far more to testing than just running test […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
New IT Employee Benchmarks
No commentsOrganizations are looking for a well-rounded, enthusiastic people with tech ‘instinct’ to fill their IT department ranks according to Deb Perelman (read her blogs here) in the eWeek article dated June 16, 2008 page 37 (I could not find the link).
According to the article, the CIO and IT managers want to fill their IT department […]
Popularity: 24% [?]
Ethnocentric Corporate Culture
1 comment so farIn my last blog titled, Infosys’s Globalization Strategy, I talked about the need for Infosys, to create a globally diverse top management, to overcome Indian ‘ethnocentric corporate culture’. Diverse multinational, multiethnic top executive will be able to create a polycentric corporate culture and only then Infosys will be able to reap maximum benefit from […]
Popularity: 27% [?]
Is IT Strategic in the New Age of Innovation?
No commentsWith their new book New Age of Innovation – Driving Cocreated Value through Global Network, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure-one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. I have not read the book yet, but I have been checking out […]
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‘Just in Time’ Talent Management
2 comments so far“Managing supply chain is about managing uncertainty and variability. This same uncertainty exists inside companies with regard to talent development. Companies rarely know what they will be building five years out and what skills they will need to make that happen; they also don’t know if the people they have in their pipelines are going […]
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War for Talent?
No commentsResearch by McKinsey titled Making Talent a Strategy Priority finds a contradicting trend (This is an extension to their initial paper in 1997 titled ‘War For Talent’). While there is a rising acknowledgement by the executive that in this globalized knowledge economy, the demand for right ‘talent’ far exceeds the existing supply leading to ‘war […]
Popularity: 46% [?]
Cisco’s Collaboration Strategy
1 comment so farInformation Week’s article Cisco’s Emerging Collaboration Strategy talks on how Cisco’s Chairman John Chambers intends to build hardware and software solution to take advantage of collaboration that will enable traditional organization to transform its business model. Chambers says that collaboration will fundamentally change the nature of work, enabling productivity growth to soar back […]
Popularity: 63% [?]
Managing Diversity in IT Department through Cultural Intelligence
2 comments so farMike 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 […]
Popularity: 61% [?]
Global Talent Movement
No commentsEarly Humans were nomads, wandering the earth. As they found an ideal place as defined by alluvial soil, abundant supply of fresh water and balmy weather, they started to settle down. Initial large agrarian society emerged out in places like Mesopotamia and Indus Valley. As more people settled, it led to imbalanced Supply and Demand […]
Popularity: 37% [?]
Bottom up Management
No commentsHCL Technologies, an Indian Info tech company is taking a unique approach to hold its management accountable. In the article titled Employee is always right, Business Week investigates new and quirky approach the company is taking where every employee gets to grade the performance of their managers! Not only that, everyone gets to see those […]
Popularity: 67% [?]
