Banking Crisis and IT Spending
No commentsThe multinational U.S. and European banks are in the news lately due to ongoing credit crunch. All of them are desperately trying to recapitalize and stop their falling stock prices. They are reducing headcount, getting rid of non-performing asset in an effort to survive a volatile environment of purging excesses they created. You might be […]
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Cloud Computing - Game Changing Technology?
No commentsAnything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers?
I think […]
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McKinsey Survey on Enterprise 2.0
No commentsCompanies that are deriving business value from Web 2.0 tools are now shifting from using them experimentally to adopting them as part of a broader business practice according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey Results titled Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise (you need to register to read the complete article). This survey also shows that […]
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Testing GM’s IT Strategy
No commentsSUV and pickup sales have been plunging in the US due to rising gas price. GM, a major player in the SUV and Trucks market, is planning of changing manufacturing capability from building big gas guzzlers to building small cars. Ability to adapt to changing customer need due to this new reality (high […]
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Smaller and Faster IT Projects
No commentsProject 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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Emerging Role of IT in the Marketing Strategy of Coco-Cola
No commentsCoco-Cola has been a leader in non-alcoholic beverage industry and has dominated that market over the past century. But due to globalization, the beverage market has become more volatile, where fickle customers constantly switch drinks. Global beverage market is also getting fragmented at a faster pace with new products being introduced by the […]
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Future of Enterprise Application
No commentsIn an interview with published in Khowledge@Wharton, Bill McDermott CEO of SAP Americas talks about the future of Enterprise Application (you have to sign up to read the article). You can watch the entire interview below. But here are some of the experts from the interview. (Also read my previous blog Future of […]
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Role of IT in demand forecasting
1 comment so farForecasting has become more and more complex lately. Customers are less loyal to the brand and global competition has become fiercer, making it difficult to predict sales. Adding to the problem: Products, sales and distribution channels all have proliferated, and the life spans of products have gotten shorter. As a result, some companies […]
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Is SaaS Unstoppable?
No commentsBig businesses may have reached the tipping point in their acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) and large companies are moving beyond the early adapter stage, according to information week article SaaS Market Heats Up. Also, Salesforce.com reported net income of $9.56 million (50% Revenue Growth) on revenues of $247.6 million in the […]
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Role of Virtualization in IT Strategy
1 comment so farVMware CTO Steve Herrod in the article on eWeek.com titled Why Virtualization Is Becoming Strategic says that most organizations originally set out to utilize virtualization technologies in their IT systems to consolidate servers and save power draw, virtualization almost invariably becomes a strategic asset for the organization. It’s interesting to note how tactical […]
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