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IT’s role in Beijing Olympics

August 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  1 Comment

IT’s role in Beijing Olympics

InformationWeek’s IT Olympics Weblog quotes some of the stats as shown below from the Paris base IT service company called Atos Origin that managed the IT infrastructure at Beijing Olympics.

Systems in Beijing securely processed a more than 80% greater volume of data on competition for media and news agencies worldwide, compared with the Olympics in [...]

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Open Innovation – Is it really the next step?

August 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  1 Comment

Open Innovation – Is it really the next step?

Innovation has always been a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps.  Ideas, product design were closely held secrets because innovative and radical design has always provided competitive advantage to the company.  The firms by patenting the design/ideas usually created a high barrier for competitors to emulate their [...]

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Banking Crisis and IT Spending

August 19, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  1 Comment

The multinational U.S. and European banks are in the news lately due to ongoing credit crunch.  All of them are desperately trying to recapitalize and stop their falling stock prices.  They are reducing headcount, getting rid of non-performing asset in an effort to survive a volatile environment of purging excesses they created.  You might be [...]

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Indian IT Exec Mind Set

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 [...]

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Cloud Computing – Game Changing Technology?

August 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Anything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’.  Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon.  Will it attract large number of customers?
I think [...]

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McKinsey Survey on Enterprise 2.0

August 7, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

McKinsey Survey on Enterprise 2.0

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 [...]

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Waste in Government IT Projects

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) [...]

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Testing GM’s IT Strategy

July 31, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Testing GM's IT Strategy

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 [...]

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Smaller and Faster IT Projects

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 [...]

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Tribalization of Business

July 23, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant  |  No Comments

Tribalization of Business

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 [...]

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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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