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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.
A [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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