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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 | 1 Comment
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.
September 30, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Ivo Velitchkov is working on concept for integration of models and modeling objects of Business, IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Project Management. You can read more about his concept at “Cohesion of Enterprise Model“. He is planning to start this PhD research after 15 years in IT in many roles, as entrepreneur, consultant, project manager, [...]
September 28, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
David Clark is a former Managing Partner for Gartner UK Consulting. Prior to that, he has been in senior positions at a few of the other “tier one” consulting firms and a couple of enjoyable stints as a CIO positions in industry. His career spans about 25 years during which time he has delivered around [...]
September 25, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia has grown without a strategy. But Barry Newstead in the HBR article titled “Inside Wikimedia’s Open-Source Strategic Planning” says that there are some strategic issues that needs to resolved.
September 20, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Olivier Drean is EMEA alliance partner for APRISO, which is an editor of MOM (Manufacturing Operation Management) system. He has a unique perspective of IT in manufacturing organization. I had an interesting conversation with Olivier and here is an excerpt of my conversations with him…
September 15, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In CIO.com article titled “The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks” Jeff Ello explains on how to manage IT workers. Jeff Ello paints a different picture of ways to manage IT department. He says that the amount of respect an IT pro pays someone is a measure of how tolerable that person is when it comes to getting things done, including the elegance and practicality of his solutions and suggestions.
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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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