Posts by: Navin Anand

Outsourcing: Beyond cheap labour

Skills, best practice and business alignment mean outsourcing is here to stay (First published in ComputerworldUK) Is the IT offshoring trend we have seen over the last few decades now beginning to reverse whereby outsourcers and their customers are beginning … Continue…

Benchmark to stay ahead of the disruption curve

Reblogged from Successful Workplace: Most of the information I read about disruption focuses on the fact it is happening all around us and warns that organizations should be prepared to deal with it. A quick read of the news tells … Continue…

Enterprise architecture: Challenging the top 3 misconceptions

Rather like an adolescent who feels continually misunderstood, Enterprise Architecture has been suffering from an identity crisis since the day this new business function was named. The first step in creating an IT infrastructure blueprint that supports corporate needs is … Continue…

Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Reblogged from Steve Blank: My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting, and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He … Continue…

How to visualise your IT strategy using Kanban

Reblogged from Ian Carroll: After reading Dean Leffingwell's awesome books on scaling Agile I was left wondering how to apply the principles in practice. Here's a practical example - with a few extras courtesy of Kanban thinking. The above system … Continue…

Application Management Pricing – Not Easy Ground

The challenge of pricing – for an IT service provider While an end-to-end management approach provides a competitive service advantage, it can carry a substantial additional – and often unforeseen – cost and risk. The challenge is that it’s difficult … Continue…

Top Ten Global Proficiency Challenges Impeding Growth

There are a few macro arguments for nurturing and mentoring global diversity skills at all levels of leadership and operations management in a corporation. Yet, it does not make immediate sense, lighting up an urgent need on the radar screen. … Continue…

The Importance of Business Systems

Reblogged from Australian Business Solutions: By Tony Fantulla. It can be very frustrating for a company owner or business manager when an organization has great staff, good products, a strong vision and clear direction, yet the company’s growth is impeded … Continue…

Reflecting on IT service management issues for 2012

Reblogged from COMMUNICATIONS & MANAGEMENT BLOG: Well as we almost enter the festive season it is perhaps time for reflection regarding the challenges you faced as IT professionals in 2012.  I was reminded by a colleague of an article at … Continue…
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