IT StrategyRaj Sheelvant’s blog on harnessing Information Technology to create and sustain competitive advantage for the businesses

Can businesses leverage Web 2.0?

Conventional wisdom says any organization can become Web 2.0 enabled; it’s a matter of deploying Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis, and Ajax applications. But that’s just a coat of paint - to be really Web 2.0-enabled requires a complete change of business model. This according to Tim O’ Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media in […]

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Is IT Strategic in the New Age of Innovation?

With their new book New Age of Innovation – Driving Cocreated Value through Global Network, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure-one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. I have not read the book yet, but I have been checking out […]

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Explaining Success of Social Media

Jimmy Wales and “a band of volunteers,” created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future. In TED conference he explains how the collaborative approach works, and why it succeeds. ‘Wikinomics’ also tries to explain the rise in social media and reason for the success. Altruism, Anti Establishment and Super Ego gratification are […]

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Cisco’s Collaboration Strategy

Information Week’s article Cisco’s Emerging Collaboration Strategy talks on how Cisco’s Chairman John Chambers intends to build hardware and software solution to take advantage of collaboration that will enable traditional organization to transform its business model. Chambers says that collaboration will fundamentally change the nature of work, enabling productivity growth to soar back […]

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Managing Diversity in IT Department through Cultural Intelligence

Mike Vizard, Editorial Director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise makes a poignant remark about the importance of diversity in the IT department in his blog “Diversity in IT Has Become a Business Imperative”. I agree with his view that “the great issue of the day in technology is not the technology but rather the people within […]

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Are Traditional Organizations Scared of Web 2.0?

Two online articles Is the Enterprise Afraid of Web 2.0? and Why CEOs Are Afraid of Social Media investigate interesting reaction by the Traditional Firms on the rise of collaborative tools and social media. On the superficial level, executives and CIOs seem enthusiastic about wikis, blogs and social networking and have shown willingness to embrace […]

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Impact of Social Computing on Marketing

Read a very pertinent article on Social Marketing on Knowledge@Wharton. The article talks that the buzzwords like Fansumers, viral video etc are more than the marketing gimmicks. These trends are game changers and are going to impact the conventional marketing thinking at Madison Avenue. There is a real need by the consumer to be heard […]

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Wisdom of the crowd and the Bullwhip effect

Bullwhip effect is an important concept in Supply Chain Management. This is the phenomenon when a slight change in demand gets amplified as you move away from the customers in the value chain. Let’s say the quantity of office supplies sold by the retail stores in a region has stagnated. But if […]

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What’s better? Crowd Sourcing? or Expert Sourcing?

 
With the rise of social networking and collaboration technology there is growing interest in ‘Crowd Sourcing’. Wikipedia is a classic example where we have witnessed a dramatic shift of power from the experts to the ‘crowd’. According to numerous studies, the percentage of errors on the Wikipedia site is far lower than […]

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Democratic and Republican IT Strategy for 2008 US Presidential Elections

“A Different Kind of Culture War” by Edward Cone is an article that states that the outcome of US Presidential Election in 2008 could come down to the way each campaign uses technology.

Both sides have access to same technology, but like business entities cultural differences between each party will indicate how they will be able to leverage […]

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