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September 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
SearchCIO-Midmarket.com article by Christina Torode titled “ERP case study: Implementing ERP to manage growth, fix legacy issues” reports ERP Implementation Strategy for Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. Peet’s is a specialty coffee roaster and marketer of fresh-roasted whole-bean coffee and tea with 2008 revenue of …
September 2, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
According to InformationWeek article titled “4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence” Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS. Doug Henschen author of this article writes why business intelligence initiatives continue to top CIO priorities …
August 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
McKinsey Quarterly has published a very significant and timely article titled “IT architecture: Cutting costs and complexity”. I was very impressed with the depth and breadth of article that challenges the companies to embrace IT as an asset to create and sustain competitive advantage. Reducing complexity and creating an IT architecture in alignment with Business [...]
August 24, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
After the M&A activity what should the IT integration strategy between the companies be? Ideally, rational management should use the right software for the newly created ‘integrated’ company. But most of the times management does not act rationally and end up making a wrong choice because of emotions.
August 18, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Cloud computing is threatening the business model of the Indian IT outsourcing industry as the global recession pushes business to cut costs, according to the chief executive of Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan. This is reported in Financial Time article titled “IT outsourcers face cloud computing challenge”. Cloud computing allows software applications and data to reside on [...]
August 12, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article “Restoring American Competitiveness” points that outsourcing can erode company’s competitive advantage. Outsourcing, which shunts off low value added value chain to an external company, has an unintended consequence of eroding skills …
August 5, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Web 2.0 technology has created a new breed of online customer—one who is both a producer and a consumer of their own content and services. How does it impact an organization? McKinsey article titled “Managing beyond Web 2.0” portrays a strategy called LEAD (listen, experiment, apply, develop) to create a road map that …
August 3, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
The CIO’s role is one of communicating a vision and driving a change management strategy that will result in greater user and organizational acceptance of the projects selected for development. This according to SearchCIO.com article titled “Avoiding IT project failures with a change management strategy” By Kristen Caretta.
July 30, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Aneesh Chopra, federal chief technology officer and assistant director for technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy sees a great opportunity for CIOs and the tech industry in general to help lead the country out of the recession and deliver on some of the federal government’s most pressing IT priorities.
July 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Here are 10 important aspects of Cloud computing according eWeek print article (July 20, 2009) titled “10 things you should know now about Cloud Storage and Computing”.
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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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