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April 4, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
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 [...]
March 31, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
According to Nicholas Carr, in his new book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google we’re in the midst of a transition in computing, moving from our own private hard drives to the computer as access portal. Soon all companies and individuals will outsource their computing systems, from programming to data storage, [...]
March 19, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
“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 [...]
March 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
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. [...]
March 9, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
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.
Using [...]
March 6, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
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.
Since [...]
March 2, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
Cindi Hawson in her article on Intelligent Enterprise titled The Road to Pervasive BI writes that organizations which can better understand and reap value from data to deliver best-in-class service, boost revenue, and increase operating efficiencies have implemented Business Intelligence (BI) that is pervasive in nature i.e BI tools used not only by business analysts, [...]
February 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Mark Banioff CEO of Salesforce.com, the company that created whole new market segment share for On-Demand delivery model, in an interview with eWeek titled “Platform in the Clouds” talks about the future of Saleforce.com’s On–Demand delivery model. The company is now moving on to logical next step: enabling firms to move their entire IT infrastructure [...]
February 24, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
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 [...]
February 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Organizations as they gets larger, add layers of complexity to their organization structure to deal with increasing complex external landscape (Also read my other blog titled Globalization and Managaing Complexity)
Ron Ashkenas in his HBR article “Simplicity Minded Management” writes on how to strip complexity out of organizations. He says that a simplification strategy [...]
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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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