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August 7, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Companies that are deriving business value from Web 2.0 tools are now shifting from using them experimentally to adopting them as part of a broader business practice according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey Results titled Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise (you need to register to read the complete article). This survey also shows that [...]
August 6, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The Government agencies in the US are spending billions of dollars on IT investments that are redundant, lack clear goals and are managed by unqualified individuals. Some of the projects have been delayed for more than a decade and are costing billions more than originally budgeted. This is according to the GAO’s (Government Accountability Office) [...]
July 31, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
SUV and pickup sales have been plunging in the US due to rising gas price. GM, a major player in the SUV and Trucks market, is planning of changing manufacturing capability from building big gas guzzlers to building small cars. Ability to adapt to changing customer need due to this new reality (high [...]
July 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Project management is changing. Rather than plotting a big project from start to finish before pulling the trigger, CIOs should get comfortable with doing shorter projects according to the SearchCIO.com article “Project Management needs to think small, faster”. Another observation the article makes is that metrics for project success is also changing. Now [...]
July 23, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The ‘2008 Tribalization of Business’ study conducted by Beeline Labs, Deloitte and Society of New Communication looks at how companies are harnessing the collective wisdom (collaborating with employees and customers) to innovate faster, reduce costs, grow the business and bolster the bottom line.
You have to register to get the entire study. But [...]
July 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Coca-Cola has been a leader in non-alcoholic beverage industry and has dominated that market over the past century. But due to globalization, the beverage market has become more volatile, where fickle customers constantly switch drinks. Global beverage market is also getting fragmented at a faster pace with new products being introduced by the emerging companies. [...]
July 20, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In an interview with published in Khowledge@Wharton, Bill McDermott CEO of SAP Americas talks about the future of Enterprise Application (you have to sign up to read the article). You can watch the entire interview below. But here are some of the experts from the interview. (Also read my previous blog Future of [...]
July 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Microsoft announced its “Oslo” strategy last year as part of an overall service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative, but Oslo is about much more than SOA. It is Microsoft’s core modeling technology that will help take Microsoft deep into the cloud. This, according to eWeek’s article Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud.
Article quotes Steven Martin, senior [...]
July 15, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Forecasting has become more and more complex lately. Customers are less loyal to the brand and global competition has become fiercer, making it difficult to predict sales. Adding to the problem: Products, sales and distribution channels all have proliferated, and the life spans of products have gotten shorter. As a result, some companies [...]
July 13, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Lean System in manufacturing focuses on reducing inefficiency by institutionalizing continuous improvement of process as well as the quality of the product. The Lean System characteristics have been applied in the software development with the framework known as Agile Software Development. It has a potential to have dramatic impact on the final software [...]
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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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