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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 [...]
March 2, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In a blog post by Kristen Caretta titled “Do You Need a Project Manager and a Business Analyst?” writes that organizations of all shapes and sizes are considering not just a strong project manager to lead their efforts, but also a business analyst to guide the content of those efforts.
February 17, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Accenture High Performance IT research program titled “Jumping The Boundaries Of Corporate IT”, which surveyed 5,595 students and young workers in 13 countries. It uncovers how the Millennial generation uses technology and confirms the Millennial archetype—global citizen, eager adopter of new technologies, willing to improvise to get the job done—but identifies regional differences for CIOs eager to create a technology environment that enables high performance.
February 9, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Kristen Caretta blog titled “Rise of the middle managers: Jobs in IT project management still hot” in CIO Symmetry points to Global Knowledge survey, jobs in IT project management are the hottest positions for the year 2010.
December 8, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
I am on Sabbatical for couple of months. I am taking some time off for R&R. I am doing some traveling, catching up on my reading and learning to play tabla. I thought I would be able to blog on IT Strategy during this time off. But I guess I am having too much fun [...]
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.
October 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IT Offshoring continues to grow despite global downturn, but the delivery model is changing according to McKinsey Article titled “How innovators are changing IT offshoring”. The article notes that the widely adopted model for delivering offshore services – staff augmentation, is ceding ground to the more robust managed-services model.
October 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
CIOs are increasingly open to new, alternative IT operating models, which also could mean new vendor relationships. A grinding recession, paired with new choices in terms of online software, mobile computing, outsourcing, open source, and more, opens the door to this change according to Information Week article titled “Alternate IT”.
October 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Baseline Article titled “10 Truths about Project Planning” lists these 10 items. I have listed them below. Issues with software project planning are well known but when you start quantifying them it looks scary. I think we in the IT area should take these finding seriously and looks for way to improve these numbers.
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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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