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August 5, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Web 2.0 technology has created a new breed of online customer—one who is both a producer and a consumer of their own content and services. How does it impact an organization? McKinsey article titled “Managing beyond Web 2.0” portrays a strategy called LEAD (listen, experiment, apply, develop) to create a road map that …
May 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
At the sixth annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the current role of CIO in an organization was challenged according to Linda Tucci in CIO.com article titled “Experts: CIO moving more into business, process optimization”. She writes that what companies really need is a Chief Simplicity Officer, someone who can commoditize IT services that offer no [...]
April 7, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
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Recently the Kansas City Star released a report on how many local and international businesses have been able to capitalize on the use of Twitter – here are just a few highlights and insights.
A [...]
March 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Clay Shirky, in his TED talk, shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. He highlights the constraints of institutions and demonstrates how collaborative Web 2.0 fills in the gap left by the institution.
Shirky, a prescient voice on the [...]
March 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The CRM tools can empower customer facing employees to help organizations achieve growth strategy. In this current economic downturn, with increased hyper-competition the pressure is on for the organizations to continually keep track of customer pulse. This will enable the organizations understand changing customer need constantly.
CRM tools can play a pivotal role to create 4 [...]
March 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
McKinsey has identified ways to make Social Network or Web 2.0 work for the traditional organizations. In an article titled ‘Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work‘, they lay out strategies that can make Web 2.0 work.
1 The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top: Web 2.0 projects often are seen as [...]
February 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
By observing bugs, bees and birds, we humans can learn a lot about leadership in this new world of collaboration, according to Wired Magazine article ‘What Bugs Can Teach Bosses’. Geese and other animals that naturally form groups can teach humans a lot about team dynamics. Organizational Biomimetics is a term coined by author Ken [...]
December 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
There is lot of talk on how Twitter and other kinds of microblogging tools are making on to the enterprise level. Ed Cone, at CIO Insight in his blog titled ‘Enterprise Twitterring Comes of Age’ points out that for some smaller companies, Twitter as a sales/promotional tool could be invaluable.
Similarly Chris Poley in his blog [...]
December 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Its that time of the year. Yes this is when we start looking at the future. According to Future of IT study by CIOInsight.com titled “10 Biggest Technology Developments for the Future” following technologies will be among the biggest drivers for success in the coming years.
1. Green IT
After years of buzz, eco friendly PCs are [...]
October 29, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
eWeek article titled Seven Disruptive Trends Driving the Digital Revolution has re-published a synopsis of top trends to watch. This list is originally published by CSE and you can read the 96 page report here.
Here is the list from the article
New Media: The Internet has become the new media. What some call Web 2.0 is [...]
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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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