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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 [...]
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 | 3 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 [...]
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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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