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February 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
By observing bugs, bees and birds, we humans can learn a lot about leadership in this new world of collaboration, according to Wired Magazine article ‘What Bugs Can Teach Bosses’. Geese and other animals that naturally form groups can teach humans a lot about team dynamics. Organizational Biomimetics is a term coined by author Ken [...]
September 26, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Glen Grosslight senior VP of the Technology Information for Wells Fargo writes about an unique way to enable the employees to innovate. They have used a stock exchange concept in which team members trade shares on innovative ideas. Hence a ‘free market’ for ideas and innovation was born. (Read more at Wells Fargo Uses Market [...]
May 14, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The expansive reach of collaborative technology can bring together expertise and expedite innovation. This was common underlying conclusion by many industry leaders that presented at “Achieving Innovation through Collaboration” symposium. This symposium was hosted by the Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
One of the interesting [...]
February 14, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Research 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 [...]
January 2, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Professor Donald Marchand of IMD in his article Realizing IT Values: A Shared Responsibility between Senior Managers and the CIO gives an interesting perspective on how to make IT matter. Check out the Senior Manager and CIO leadership Matrix below which shows how to make IT Matter to an organization.
Basic premise of the article is [...]
November 26, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
HCL 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 [...]
September 28, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
The United States’ status as the world’s biggest talent hotspot is under threat from the countries like UK and China according to the first ever Global Talent Index (GTI) by executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
According to this survey, US will maintain it’s position as the world’s leading country [...]
September 4, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
In the eWeek.com article IT Workers Second-Guess Career Choice, Deborah Perelman reports a disturbing trend where the IT workers in the US see a bleak future for their career and are discouraging their kids to not pursue IT career.
Outsourcing, Offshoring, H1B Employees, Commoditization of IT work force are all here to stay, but they [...]
August 26, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Information Week article “Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job” talks about how Web 2.0 has become important part of social life for the new generation workers.
Our company has its own internal blogging and its interesting to see that the young hires and interns start blogging almost instantaneously. In some cases, I [...]
August 23, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The Knowledge worker is still perceived as a semi-skilled or an unskilled worker by the mid level executives. This is how it typically plays out in a budget meeting. One of the finance management member looks at the amount that is being spent on sustaining the application that has been in production for past 2 [...]
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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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