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October 26, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is testing its ability to use the internet to sell its toothpaste, household cleaners and nappies directly to US households, in a potential long-term strategic challenge to its retail partners according to Financial Times article titled P&G web move is challenge to retailers dated October 19th 2008. The article notes that [...]
October 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 3 Comments
Of more than 600 business technology execs who responded to the survey in July 2008, 40% said they had decreased their IT spending that quarter relative to their 2008 budgets according to the article How CIOs Are Setting IT Strategy Amid Economic Uncertainty.
While the market grabbed attention past couple of months, the underlying concern is [...]
October 13, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
The Bluest of the blue chip companies, General Electrics’ stock has been falling precipitously due to global credit crunch. General Electric (GE) had used the Lateral Diversification Strategy or Conglomerate Diversification Strategy as its growth strategy. By consistently increasing in performance objectives beyond past levels of performance, GE has been able to raise its dividends [...]
October 8, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
As the global economy collapses, companies are bound to trim spending to improve the bottom line. Since information technology is bucketed as cost, senior executives inevitably will turn their attention to IT budgets for substantial contributions. Earnings miss by SAP (read article here) indicates that both Multinationals and SME (small and medium enterprises) are nervous [...]
September 29, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
The first step in managing IT Manager, CIO brand is understanding one’s environment. IT managers persist in believing their work is about deploying hardware and software when, in fact, their primary job is about deploying change. CIOs are selling change to people who often don’t want it. This is according to SearchCIO article CIOs must [...]
September 26, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Glen Grosslight senior VP of the Technology Information for Wells Fargo writes about an unique way to enable the employees to innovate. They have used a stock exchange concept in which team members trade shares on innovative ideas. Hence a ‘free market’ for ideas and innovation was born. (Read more at Wells Fargo Uses Market [...]
September 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
IT must implement an effective, mature method of change management or experience significant downtime and negative impact on productivity and profits according to Dennis Powell in his Enterprise Systems article titled Five Keys to Successful Change Management Maturity.
Application and infrastructure change requests of all sizes — from large-scale and important projects to small and low-priority [...]
September 19, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
IT management tends to define QA as being simply “testing”. As such, they often view QA as just bringing in some warm bodies to run some test scripts once the coding is all finished. There is actually far more to QA than just testing, and there is far more to testing than just running test [...]
September 16, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Excellent article on changing corporate strategy on McKinsey Quarterly titled Just-in-time strategy for a turbulent world. Article states that the classic approach to corporate strategy starts with a presumption: that with sufficient analytical rigor and an adequate assessment of the probabilities, strategists can pave a predictable path to the future from the matter of the [...]
September 4, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Nortel’s CIO Steven J. Bandrowczak’s writes in his blog titled ‘The Changing Role of CIO’ “… the reliable and secure communications technology is vital in a marketplace where the workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. In this new culture of connectivity, CIOs have an opportunity to make a difference in their company’s strategy and embrace this [...]
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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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