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January 19, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
In times of economic crisis, old rules become irrelevant and new opportunities abound according to the Business Week article titled ‘Managing Through a Crisis: The New Rules’.
Does this mean that the Business Strategy has become irrelevant and businesses adapt to new reality tactically? On the contrary, Strategy becomes far more important. In this article Ram [...]
January 13, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
SANS Institute which is a source for computer security training and research has announced CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. CWE stands for Common Weakness Enumeration, a government-sponsored software assurance initiative.
According to press release, this is a consensus list from 30 US and international cyber security organizations lists 25 dangerous programming errors that lead [...]
January 9, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
With R&D budgets shrinking and markets retrenching in a worldwide economic crisis, technologists will need more than lab expertise to convince their employers to keep the research funding spigots open. The ability to communicate well and other “soft skills” are just as important as technological expertise when it comes to selling new ideas to investors [...]
January 6, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant | 2 Comments
Happy New Year!
As we start the year 2009 with a high probability of a global recession, many organizations will try to hunker down and cut costs to survive. One of the things they do is reduce head count. That is the standard operating procedure for surviving during the recession. Although this makes sense in manufacturing [...]
December 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
How should the CIO and IT Executives of mid sized business position themselves going into 2009? Anne McCrory lists them in the article titled Ten Imperatives for midmarket IT Strategy in 2009
Here they are (read article for detailed information):
10. Review your strategic plan.
Plan and Identify what projects can be dropped. It is likely that [...]
December 18, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
There is lot of talk on how Twitter and other kinds of microblogging tools are making on to the enterprise level. Ed Cone, at CIO Insight in his blog titled ‘Enterprise Twitterring Comes of Age’ points out that for some smaller companies, Twitter as a sales/promotional tool could be invaluable.
Similarly Chris Poley in his blog [...]
December 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Its that time of the year. Yes this is when we start looking at the future. According to Future of IT study by CIOInsight.com titled “10 Biggest Technology Developments for the Future” following technologies will be among the biggest drivers for success in the coming years.
1. Green IT
After years of buzz, eco friendly PCs are [...]
December 10, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
In the WSJ blog titled ‘Tech Spending to Grow 1.6% in 2009’, Ben Worthen writes that “businesses and other organizations in the U.S. will spend $573 billion on computer software, hardware and services next year, just 1.6% more than they spent in 2008”. This data is according to Forrester Research. Forrester had initially predicted U.S. [...]
December 3, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
McKinsey Quarterly has published an interview with Hugh Courtney who is the author of the book ‘20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World’. According to the author, risks and uncertainty always exists. They don’t appear out of nowhere. But our perception of risks and uncertainties changes or evolves over the period of time. The [...]
November 25, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
It’s all over the news. Google and P&G have swapped workers to spur innovation. Each organization thinks that they have something to gain from one another. Hence they have started swapping employees. WSJ has reported in the article titled ‘A New Odd Couple: Google P&G Swap Workers to Spur Innovation‘, that about two-dozen staffers from [...]
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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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