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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, [...]
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 6, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Read the interview with Nicholas Carr on CIO insight, titled Nicholas Carr: Why IT will change, where he talks about his new book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
In the interview with Ed Cone, Nicholas Carr defends that “the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least in its familiar [...]
January 8, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 5 Comments
Michael Porter’s ground breaking HBR article in 1979 on Five Competitive Forces called “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” has been revised by the author after about three decades. His new work not only updates and extends but also reaffirms his findings. You can find the article in its entirety here. You can also [...]
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 [...]
December 3, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Two recent Information Week’s blog talk about Data Center Strategy for Google and Microsoft. They are aptly titled Google’s Data Center Strategy Revealed and Microsoft Drops Few Data Center Strategy Hints.
Though the titles are provocative, both the blogs provide scant detail regarding each company’s Data Center Strategy. Information has been scarce for a long time [...]
September 18, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
M.K. Pralahad of ‘Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ and ‘Competing in the Future’ fame, talks about several trends that will lead to the Democratization of Commerce. In his words, there will be greater integration of larger number of producers and consumers in the global economy. Of the several intriguing trends he talks about, [...]
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 31, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
Wall Street Journal tech blog, How to Do IT on the Cheap is about the IT strategy at Virgin America. If you have paid access to Wall Street Journal’s Web Site then you can also read about Virgin America flies new IT path. Both these articles discuss how Virgin America is breaking new ground when [...]
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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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