SOA – Service Oriented Architecture explained in layman’s terms
The core concept behind Service oriented Architecture (SOA) is that it is focused on enabling design and implementation of business process as individual service components...
Creating Process based Organizations via Reengineering
While reengineering a business enterprise, we create a process based organization structure for the enterprise to avoid the inefficiencies and time wasting business process cycles...
Basic approaches to Reengineering
The three basic approaches to reengineering are as follows – 1. STREAMLIING 2. INTEGRATING 3. TRANSFORMING 1. Streamlining – Streamlining approach to reengineering the business...
What is Re-engineering? Why companies are doing re-engineering?
Re-engineering or Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is way of rethinking or redesigning the existing business systems both in technical and behavioral terms. The ultimate goal of...
Sample Project Management Problem Resolution
Project description: Project for xyz that included development, maintenance and enhancements to the official web site and web-based intranet applications that supported integrated work flows...
Strategic alignment of IT resources – A case study in Grocery industry (Part 2)
Strategic alignment of IT resources – A case study in Grocery industry (Part 2) Japan UK Spain US Effect of economic situation The...
E-Government Transformation in Maharashtra, India
The scalar transformation of e-government implementation models in the state of Maharashtra, India, took place exactly as West pictures as billboard, partial service delivery and...
Will Rohr’s Secular Writings About Government Change In The Present?
If Rohr would have written his book in the present year, it would have a clear shift from the focus on defining what a perfect...
Federal IT Dashboard
Federal IT Dashboard...
CIO’s need to know organizational assumptions about IT
Though Information Technology (IT) is seen as a core enabler of business continuity and competence, it is not always viewed so. I was impressed by...
Shaping global business strategy based on cultural determinants
This article is based on a research paper that I reviewed recently as included in the reference section. The focus of this article is to...
Overcoming Competing Commitment
“Competing commitment and how to overcome it” – A review of work done by Kegan R. and Lahey L. L. Overcoming employee resistance has been...
Theory of Business (TOB), Business strategy and more – A case study
Bertelsmann AG is the largest media and entertainment group in Europe and the second largest in the world to U.S. based Time Warner, Inc. Bertelsmann...
Applying NPV, ROI – An example to guide IT strategist to evaluate IT investments
Case Study: Opportunity A: Your bank is looking at an optical character recognition (OCR) system to further automate the check processing function. Check processing is...
Theory Of Constraints (TOC) – A Case study (AOL, FCC, Verizon) based analysis
All organizations strive for excellence. The Theory of Business (TOB) of any company is considered the deciding factor, which determines the degree of excellence and...
M-Commerce? How could your company take liverage out of it?
Its my pleasure to introduce you to the emerging world of m-commerce and how your company can take a competitive edge by harnessing this technology...
Simple NPV & ROI calculation (Example 001)
Case: A company invests $15000 and receives a $11000 cash benefit at the end of the first year and a $12100 cash benefit at the...
Assets and Liabilities for an organization – Yes basic stuff for anything including IT strategic planning
Assets and liabilities are the two major entities that find an entry in a business’s balance sheet for measuring its wealth. Assets are items owned...
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning – An analysis from view points of Mintzberg and King 1. The way strategic planning originates: Mintzburg states that strategies can originate as...
Theory of Business (TOB) – What is it? Explained with case study of Sassy Scrubs
The main problem areas that Doran focuses on are Money management and Planning. It would be interesting to reflect on how the lack of a...
Assess Barnes and Noble’s response to the substitution threat from Amazon. How did Amazon respond in turn, and to what net effect?
Barnes and Noble’s Response: Barnes and Noble had started studying online business during late 1994. It was not in response of Amazon.com’s going online that...
Separation of Stores and Online Operations for Barnes and Nobles
Separation of Stores and Online Operations for Barnes and Nobles: Was this a good idea?? What was its intent and did it work?? The case...
The Price Cut in amazon.com: Was this a good idea? What was its intent and did it work??
Price cuts are market strategies that companies introduce when they enter into competition. Barnes and Noble’s and Amazon.com’s case was no different. As seen from...
How USPS Overcome Substitution Threat
Considering substitution threats, our US Post Office is faced with a serious threat from email and online banking. Their proposed solution is to raise the...
“Hedgehogs see what is essential, and ignore the rest”
“Hedgehogs see what is essential, and ignore the rest” (The above sentence is taken from Jim Collin’s famous article – ‘Are You a Hedgehog or...
Strategy follows structure – While designing strategy oriented websites
This topic is very relevant when we realize the importance of aligning Information Architecture (IA) with the business strategy. The topic that we reflect on...