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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
August 13, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Great blog by Mike Vizard called IT Needs to Be About Intelligence Not Information on the need for IT executives to ferret out intelligence from information. Evolution of Information Age: In the early years of Information Age, the one with the access to exclusive information had the power. As information started to become more democratized with the Internet, the person who was able to organize the information was in demand. Now, with accelerated Democratization with the advent of Web 2.0 (bloging, social network etc.) there has been an information…
August 12, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IT is knowledge based and one of the important issues faced by IT management is ‘people issue’. This issue not only revolves around hiring, training etc. that can be classified as ‘Talent Management’, it also involves cultural issues (both organizational and country culture as more and more organization become global). In this evolving complexity, one department that needs to be at the center of this is…
July 29, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Valuable survey by McKinsey titled “The next frontier in IT Strategy” Senior IT executives now believe that they are successfully aligning IT strategy with the needs of businesses they serve. Finally, IT executives are collaborating with business to add value. It’s a good sign that IT department is moving away from tactical IT infrastructure management. Though IT infrastructure is important, from business organization perspective IT department becomes…
July 25, 2007 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
CIO Insight article revisits Nicholas Carr controversial 2003 HBR article “IT Doesn’t Matter”. Well, the gist of the article: Carr’s compares IT to Electricity. Initially Electricity was used by some companies to create a sustainable competitive advantage. But soon all the competitors started using electricity and the use of electricity stopped being an enabler of competitive advantage. Thus, electricity turned out from being a cutting edge technology to that of …
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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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