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May 21, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Creative Destruction as defined by Joseph Schumpeter, the noted economist, is a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” Read more about Creative Destruction in my blog titled “Creative Destruction at the Speed of Thought”.
Creative Destruction is in full display [...]
May 15, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The technology has immense potential for ‘intelligent urbanization’ for India according to Susheela Venkataraman, managing director, Internet Business Solution Group at Cisco Systems. Read complete article here.
Because of faster development in future years; 500 million people would be urbanized within the next five years. There would be emergence of new cities and 60 per cent [...]
May 7, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Survey by McKinsey Quarterly as published in May 2007, suggests that most of the CIOs believe that they are successfully aligning IT strategy with the needs of the businesses they serve. This means CIOs are collaborating with the business in ways that add significant value, rather than just reacting to the demands of the business.
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May 5, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Information Week’s Global CIO Blog by John Foley in an interview with IBM’s CIO Mark Hennessy in the blog titled “IBM CIO’s Strategy: Run, Transform, Innovate”, identifies that there are still more gain that IBM can achieve by operational efficiencies.
Mark Hennessy also says that IBM’s IT team supports the company’s strategy in three broad ways:
1) [...]
April 28, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
As the race to the bottom continues (From a form factor perspective) in enterprise application, new breed of enterprise devices will continue to ascend. iPhone and Palm Pre are the new client devices that can be enabled to integrate with Enterprise application. It’s going to be an excellent fit for custom application for the enterprise, [...]
April 23, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
This is final installment of my thread on EBay’s Skype strategy. In my initial analysis in Oct 18, 2007 in the blog titled eBay’s failed Business Strategy with Skype Acquisition, I concluded that Skype was wrongly hyped by the management (the then CEO Meg Whitman) on the synergistic advantage Skype brings to EBay’s core business. [...]
April 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IBM, a premier computer hardware company, I think is known for reinventing itself successfully. First after being outsmarted by Microsoft in late1980s, IBM reinvented itself. Lot of people believed, IBM cannot survive. Read the details of the turnaround by the then CEO Louis Gerstner in his book titled ‘Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s [...]
April 7, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
This post was contributed by Karen Sampson, who writes about accredited online colleges. She welcomes your feedback at Karen.Sampson1120 at gmail.com
Recently the Kansas City Star released a report on how many local and international businesses have been able to capitalize on the use of Twitter – here are just a few highlights and insights.
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April 3, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Financial Times article titled “Skype’s iPhone app part of broader strategy,” indicates EBay’s push to internet phone services. New iPhone application will extend already popular VOIP communication to iPhone. Scott Durchslag, Skype’s chief operating officer, says in the article that Skype aimed to become the world’s leading communications Software Company.
EBay now has three units that [...]
March 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Clay Shirky, in his TED talk, shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. He highlights the constraints of institutions and demonstrates how collaborative Web 2.0 fills in the gap left by the institution.
Shirky, a prescient voice on the [...]
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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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