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February 9, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Kristen Caretta blog titled “Rise of the middle managers: Jobs in IT project management still hot” in CIO Symmetry points to Global Knowledge survey, jobs in IT project management are the hottest positions for the year 2010.
February 1, 2010 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
I am back from sabbatical. It’s time to start blogging on IT Strategy. Well, I read interesting article in Wired “Next Industrial Revolution Atoms are the New Bits” by Chris Anderson (of Long Tail Fame).
Chris writes that “Transformative change happens when industries democratize, when they’re ripped from the sole domain of companies, governments, and other [...]
December 8, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
I am on Sabbatical for couple of months. I am taking some time off for R&R. I am doing some traveling, catching up on my reading and learning to play tabla. I thought I would be able to blog on IT Strategy during this time off. But I guess I am having too much fun [...]
November 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Information Week’s article titled “Next-Generation Business Intelligence” (you can download the pdf by clicking on the link here), highlights the new breed of Business Intelligence (BI) tools). The article correctly notes that the next generation of BI technology is still evolving and comes with plenty of risk.
November 4, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Results from the IT Strategy Survey are posted below. This survey was conducted by Ivo Velitchko (read more in my blog titled IT Strategy Survey).
Out of 104 people who responded 80% of you thought that the topic of IT Strategy in the past decade has been increasing.
November 2, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Great article titled “CIO: Don’t attempt BPM system without mapping process flows” by Niel Nickolaisen on importance of understanding process flow before selecting Business Process Management (BPM) system.
October 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
IT department’s role is to leverage the virtualized architecture and collaboration technology to quickly support each acquired company’s business processes. Thus, IT department of Cisco under the leadership of CIO Rebecca Jacoby, intends to lower the acquired company’s costs, while enabling it to add value to Cisco.
October 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IT Offshoring continues to grow despite global downturn, but the delivery model is changing according to McKinsey Article titled “How innovators are changing IT offshoring”. The article notes that the widely adopted model for delivering offshore services – staff augmentation, is ceding ground to the more robust managed-services model.
October 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
CIOs are increasingly open to new, alternative IT operating models, which also could mean new vendor relationships. A grinding recession, paired with new choices in terms of online software, mobile computing, outsourcing, open source, and more, opens the door to this change according to Information Week article titled “Alternate IT”.
October 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Baseline Article titled “10 Truths about Project Planning” lists these 10 items. I have listed them below. Issues with software project planning are well known but when you start quantifying them it looks scary. I think we in the IT area should take these finding seriously and looks for way to improve these numbers.
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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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