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June 18, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
McKinsey Quarterly presents Enduring Ideas: Business Systems. This article makes a compelling presentation that by alignment of Business System is the cornerstone in creating a truly integrated business strategy.
So what is a Business System? According to the article “the business system” charts all the steps involved in creating and delivering a company’s product. At each [...]
June 15, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
When it comes time to manage key projects in the IT portfolio, CIOs need successful IT project managers who exhibit the qualities of a good leader, including the ability to motivate people according to Search CIO article titled “For a successful project manager, look for qualities of a good leader”.
According to the article at least [...]
June 8, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
When a company like Coca Cola, which has several flavored drinks wants to know what its customers prefer, what does it do? Well, it intends to use IT to monitor the pulse of its customers. According to Information Week article titled “Coke’s RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence”, Coke plans to roll out the Freestyle drink [...]
May 31, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
At the sixth annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the current role of CIO in an organization was challenged according to Linda Tucci in CIO.com article titled “Experts: CIO moving more into business, process optimization”. She writes that what companies really need is a Chief Simplicity Officer, someone who can commoditize IT services that offer no [...]
May 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The combination of expense cuts and increased productivity is driving a push towards a growing use of remote collaboration software and equipments according to FT.com article ‘Virtual conference victory for Cisco Systems’. The article states that companies are accelerating their deployments of high-definition video conferencing gear made by the likes of Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.
Rapid acceptance [...]
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.
I [...]
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 | 1 Comment
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, [...]
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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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