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Indian IT Exec Mind Set

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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Smaller and Faster IT Projects

Project management is changing. Rather than plotting a big project from start to finish before pulling the trigger, CIOs should get comfortable with doing shorter projects according to the SearchCIO.com article “Project Management needs to think small, faster”. Another observation the article makes is that metrics for project success is also changing. Now […]

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New IT Employee Benchmarks

Organizations 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 […]

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Global IT Spending Growth for 2008 Remains Stable

Gartner First Quarter Worldwide CIO Survey shows IT Budget Growth remains broadly stable. Despite economic concerns, global enterprise IT budget growth remains unchanged at 3.3 percent in 2008, according to a worldwide survey of 1,011 CIOs conducted in the first quarter of 2008 by Gartner, Inc., as reported by CNBC. Gartner, Inc. is […]

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Evolving relation between IT and Business

In the mid-1990s, IT was mainly perceived as a cost center. Many organizations did not understand the full fledged role of IT in an organizations. According to the article “Strategic IT takes stage at financial services firm”, only 5% of employees, at most, understood what IT was or could do for the company. […]

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Future of Enterprise Software

To help maximize ROI for the Enterprise Applications for the CIOs Forester in a report titled Enterprise Software in 2017 tries to look into the crystal ball to predict the future of Enterprise Application (EA). Also, read concise overview of that report in the article by Enterprise Systems titled Enterprise Software Future profiled in Report.
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Green IT Strategy

A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that executives view climate change issues as important for their companies, seeing both opportunity and risk. 60 percent of global executives view climate change as important to consider within their companies’ overall strategy. Further, nearly 70 percent see it as an important consideration for managing corporate reputation and brands.

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2008 Year for SaaS Mass Adoption?

Phil Wainewright in his blog Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008, writes that 2008 is “going to be the year when SaaS becomes impossible to ignore”.  Also see Jeff Kaplan’s blog Top Ten Reasons Why On-Demand Services Will Soar in 2008 and Nicholas Carr’s blog 2008: SaaS’s breakout year? both of whom are wrote […]

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Green IT - Hype or Relevant Strategy?

Brian Watson of CIO Insight on his blog “Does Green IT Matter?” tackles an interesting trend in ‘greening’ of products and services. He says that “regardless of businesses’ motivation, investment in eco-friendly technologies continues to grow—fast”. He talks about a study by KPMG, in which “venture capitalists, bankers, entrepreneurs and others said a quarter of […]

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Are Traditional Organizations Scared of Web 2.0?

Two online articles Is the Enterprise Afraid of Web 2.0? and Why CEOs Are Afraid of Social Media investigate interesting reaction by the Traditional Firms on the rise of collaborative tools and social media. On the superficial level, executives and CIOs seem enthusiastic about wikis, blogs and social networking and have shown willingness to embrace […]

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