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March 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
The CRM tools can empower customer facing employees to help organizations achieve growth strategy. In this current economic downturn, with increased hyper-competition the pressure is on for the organizations to continually keep track of customer pulse. This will enable the organizations understand changing customer need constantly.
CRM tools can play a pivotal role to create 4 [...]
March 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
McKinsey has identified ways to make Social Network or Web 2.0 work for the traditional organizations. In an article titled ‘Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work‘, they lay out strategies that can make Web 2.0 work.
1 The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top: Web 2.0 projects often are seen as [...]
March 11, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Chris Anderson, of The Long Tail fame has written another excellent article in the Wired Magazine titled “Free! Why $0.00 Is The Future of Business”. This article is a precursor to his much anticipated new book.
In his usual style, Chris Anderson points out that, once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. [...]
March 5, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Economic Downturn always has an impact on IT and declining profits during recessions has a tendency to place tremendous pressure on IT budgets. CIOs usually are called on to rationalize projects, downsize organizations, renegotiate contracts, and seek out other cost-reduction opportunities.
But, this downturn is very different from t the last big downturn, in 2001, according [...]
February 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
I wanted to revisit Michael Porter’s 1996 HBR classic ‘What is Strategy?’ This paper challenges the commonly held notion that competitors can quickly copy any market position and hence competitive advantage is temporary. This notion indirectly challenges the viability of Strategy planning. The mindset that competitors can copy and implement any strategy is based on [...]
February 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Nicholas Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan — The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” urged us to be aware of the limitations of our observations and experience and to admit the fragility of our “knowledge.” The book’s governing metaphor illustrates the problem. It was assumed that all swans were white until the discovery of black swans [...]
February 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
By observing bugs, bees and birds, we humans can learn a lot about leadership in this new world of collaboration, according to Wired Magazine article ‘What Bugs Can Teach Bosses’. Geese and other animals that naturally form groups can teach humans a lot about team dynamics. Organizational Biomimetics is a term coined by author Ken [...]
February 3, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Executives in wired organizations need to have a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation, says Google’s chief economist Hal Varian. More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their business according to Varian [...]
January 26, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
This following blog post is contributed by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of the best universities online. She invites your feedback at hollymccarthy12 at gmail dot com. Holly taught elementary for two years and now writes and contributes to online education sites.
The economic situation has declined even further over the last several months [...]
January 21, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Software as a Service is not a ‘game-changer’ in the enterprise software market. According to Information Week, listed below are the 6 things that must happen for SaaS to gain widespread acceptance in 2009. Click here to read the entire article.
1) Get Commitment from Microsoft, Oracle and SAP: Although Salesforce.com, Google and other startups are [...]
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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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