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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 [...]
August 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
InformationWeek’s IT Olympics Weblog quotes some of the stats as shown below from the Paris base IT service company called Atos Origin that managed the IT infrastructure at Beijing Olympics.
Systems in Beijing securely processed a more than 80% greater volume of data on competition for media and news agencies worldwide, compared with the Olympics in [...]
August 22, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
Innovation has always been a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps. Ideas, product design were closely held secrets because innovative and radical design has always provided competitive advantage to the company. The firms by patenting the design/ideas usually created a high barrier for competitors to emulate their [...]
August 19, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | 1 Comment
The multinational U.S. and European banks are in the news lately due to ongoing credit crunch. All of them are desperately trying to recapitalize and stop their falling stock prices. They are reducing headcount, getting rid of non-performing asset in an effort to survive a volatile environment of purging excesses they created. You might be [...]
August 17, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Down to Business: The Mind Set of The Indian IT Exec by Rob Preston at InformationWeek is an interesting observation of Indian IT Exec Mind Set from an American journalist perspective. Having talked to several American IT Exec. over the period of several years, Preston visits India for the first time. His observation compares and [...]
August 11, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant | No Comments
Anything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT according to the CIO Insight article ‘Cloud Computing: Anything as a Service’. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers?
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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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