Indian IT Exec Mind Set
No commentsDown 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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Infosys’s Globalization Strategy
No commentsCreation of diverse workforce would be the greatest challenge for corporations in a globalized world, says Infosys Technologies’ chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy according to Silicon India article “Creating diverse workforce greatest challenge for global firms”.
In a bid to address this daunting challenge, Infosys has built a global base to grow in the […]
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Is ‘Cloud Computing’ Feasible?
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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, […]
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Evolving relation between IT and Business
1 comment so farIn 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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2008 Year for SaaS Mass Adoption?
No commentsPhil 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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Jet Blue’s IT Strategy
No commentsDavid Neeleman, founder and former CEO of Jet Blue, an American Domestic Airlines Company, has had lot of experience starting and running a low cost Airlines business. He co-founded low budget charter Airlines Company called Morris Air in 1980s and then sold it to Southwest Airlines in 1993. He was also a high level executive […]
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Enterprise Application Implementation Strategy
1 comment so farWhen an organization starts as a small firm, there is usually no financial bandwidth to implement an elaborate Enterprise Application. The firm is usually functioning on a shoe string budget. The most important resource, capital is extremely scarce and is allocated very carefully to create a steady cash flow. Enterprise Application, though helps set a […]
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SaaS CRM Disadvantages
No commentsThe biggest advantage of SaaS CRM is that, very little in house resources are utilized in deploying, maintaining and integrating the CRM application. The vendor does most of the work and thus SaaS delivery model looks tempting from a financial perspective. As it turns out it is not advantageous to have SaaS delivery model for […]
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Business Skills for the IT Workers
No commentsSociety for Information Management Survey this year for the first time in 10 years has identified that CIOs now rank people issue as their #1 concern. In this global labor movement it’s interesting to note that retaining and managing talent is becoming the top priority of organizations.
The reason according to the survey […]
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Offshore Outsourcing, a Sound Business Strategy?
No commentsIs Offshore Outsourcing good Corporate Business Strategy? If the objective is cost savings due to labor arbitrage then in the long run organizations will fail to achieve that objective. But, if diversification of labor is the objective (read my blog Globalization of Labor) only then offshoring begins to make sense.There are two kinds of offshoring: […]
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