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Globalization of Labor – II

September 13, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 4 Comments

Why is Globalization of Labor all of sudden important now? The barrier for job migration has dramatically lowered lately making it easy to move the jobs where the labor is.When we talked about globalization, a decade back, it meant 2 things-

Movement of goods: A typical export/import business. Goods from one country shipped to another [...]

Why Traditional Organizations fail to leverage Web 2.0 technologies

September 8, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 5 Comments

Great article by Herman Mehling in SearchCIO.com, titled IT/BUSINESS STRATEGIES: Wikis in the enterprise face security, compliance challenges. He writes how Wikis have failed to win widespread acceptance in the corporate world. Web 2.0 technologies like Wikis are so radically different that traditional organizations are not structured to take advantage of these emerging technologies. In [...]

A New Breed of IT Workers

September 4, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments

In the eWeek.com article IT Workers Second-Guess Career Choice, Deborah Perelman reports a disturbing trend where the IT workers in the US see a bleak future for their career and are discouraging their kids to not pursue IT career.
Outsourcing, Offshoring, H1B Employees, Commoditization of IT work force are all here to stay, but they [...]

Perils of IT Budgeting

September 2, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

Budgeting has always been tricky for the IT department. The main objective for the IT department is to get budgeting for applications and systems that are strategic in nature (i.e. systems that enable business strategy). Since budgeting is cost-based and finance is always looking for ways to cut cost, ‘keep the lights on’ systems are [...]

Virgin America’s IT Strategy

August 31, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments

Wall Street Journal tech blog, How to Do IT on the Cheap is about the IT strategy at Virgin America. If you have paid access to Wall Street Journal’s Web Site then you can also read about Virgin America flies new IT path. Both these articles discuss how Virgin America is breaking new ground when [...]

Attention HR: Young workers demand Web 2.0

August 26, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment

Information Week article “Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job” talks about how Web 2.0 has become important part of social life for the new generation workers.
Our company has its own internal blogging and its interesting to see that the young hires and interns start blogging almost instantaneously. In some cases, I [...]

Knowledge Worker and Resource Allocation

August 23, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

The Knowledge worker is still perceived as a semi-skilled or an unskilled worker by the mid level executives. This is how it typically plays out in a budget meeting. One of the finance management member looks at the amount that is being spent on sustaining the application that has been in production for past 2 [...]

SaaS in Large Organizations

August 20, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment

SaaS or On-Demand application delivery as a disruptive delivery model is challenging traditional
Enterprise applications. Adoption rate is the fastest in the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) space. But, large multinational organizations are slow to embrace the on-demand delivery model.
SaaS has both pros and cons as explained in my previous blog. But, its not the [...]

Making Enterprise Application SaaSy!

August 17, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment

After 15 years being IT Organizations’ central focus, Enterprise applications are getting old and decrepit and desperately needs a facelift. Like it or not these applications can now be classified as Legacy system (Read Koch’s IT Strategy Blog Riding the ERP Bus Forever for more on ‘Legacy’ Enterprise systems). Implementation and Integration [...]

Globalization of Labor

August 15, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments

As organizations begin to span the globe, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to the corporate executives to manage these resources. Since each knowledge resource is unique, a lot of effort needs to go into understanding the uniqueness of each person. The question then arises – how do you build the ‘relationship’ if the labor is dispersed [...]

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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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IT Strategy

Globalization of Labor – II

Why Traditional Organizations fail to leverage Web 2.0 technologies

A New Breed of IT Workers

Perils of IT Budgeting

Virgin America’s IT Strategy

Attention HR: Young workers demand Web 2.0

Knowledge Worker and Resource Allocation

SaaS in Large Organizations

Making Enterprise Application SaaSy!

Globalization of Labor

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