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October 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IT Offshoring continues to grow despite global downturn, but the delivery model is changing according to McKinsey Article titled “How innovators are changing IT offshoring”. The article notes that the widely adopted model for delivering offshore services – staff augmentation, is ceding ground to the more robust managed-services model.
October 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
CIOs are increasingly open to new, alternative IT operating models, which also could mean new vendor relationships. A grinding recession, paired with new choices in terms of online software, mobile computing, outsourcing, open source, and more, opens the door to this change according to Information Week article titled “Alternate IT”.
August 18, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Cloud computing is threatening the business model of the Indian IT outsourcing industry as the global recession pushes business to cut costs, according to the chief executive of Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan. This is reported in Financial Time article titled “IT outsourcers face cloud computing challenge”. Cloud computing allows software applications and data to reside on [...]
August 12, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article “Restoring American Competitiveness” points that outsourcing can erode company’s competitive advantage. Outsourcing, which shunts off low value added value chain to an external company, has an unintended consequence of eroding skills …
August 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Down 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 [...]
June 23, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Creation 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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
November 30, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
David 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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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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