"Live as if you were

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma gandhi

"One of my best move

"One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, "Why?" are quick to say, "Why not?" That attitude is contagious." - Oprah Winfrey

Wish a "Happy and Pr

Wish a "Happy and Prosperous New Year" to all those who are celebrating the Sinhala and Tamil New Year!!

"There is no better

"There is no better medication for the Ailing World today, than to contagiously spread the virus of Love every day." - My humble dedication to the Earthquake/Tsuname victims and survivors of Japan

"When one door close

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

Google made one of t

Google made one of the biggest ever changes to its search engine algorithms which would immediately effect many who rely on Google to drive traffic to their sites through traditional means of SEO optimisation

Google made one of t

Google made one of the biggest ever changes to its search engine algorithms wich would immediately effect many who rely on Google to drive traffic to their sites through traditional SEO optimisation!

It is amazing what y

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit - Harry Truman

Today's focus of IT Organizations: Business Opportunities

More and more we are finding that IT is at the core of the businesses than at the periphery, and more so as the core enabler of businesses. Given this, it's imperative that the IT organization thinks, acts and lives like a Business - ie as a Profit Center rather than a Cost Center.  

In the recently concluded "The State of the CIO survey 2010", IT's contribution in the order of priority is as listed below, 

1.Improve end user productivity
2.Lower company operating costs
3.Re-engineer core business processes
4.Improve quality of products 
5.Provide innovative market offerings and business practices 
6.Improve risk management 
7.Manage customer relationships 
8.Acquire and retain customers 
9.Support global expansion 
10.Enable regulatory compliance  


If you look at the above list, it's very obvious that the IT priorities are fast becoming business driven rather than IT specific. It's time that our IT Organizations come alive to meet these expectation or run the risk of fast becoming extinct!!

Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing

An organization which wants to encourage OPEN INNOVATIONS has to necessarily look at the process of innovation within and adapting it from a CLOSED process to a more OPEN process with predefined metrics for processes, procedures, steps, controls, etc. This also warrants a class of LEADERSHIP which can create the required OPEN culture within and extend same outside with the ability to drive synergies across in realizing the set vision goals and objectives.

Once an organization is able to create the OPEN culture within then extending the boundaries and making it an virtual organization becomes a more realizable option.We need an input focused approach in organizations, which in most will be a paradigm shift in itself, with finite action plans within the organization to create the commitment to implement Open innovations in a TRANSPARENT and PREDICTABLE manner.

Once an ORGANIZATION has built the basic foundation for OPEN INNOVATION then it can leverage on CROWD SOURCING, a corporate notion of outsourcing to more loosely specified body of people, to tap into the potential of virtual groups of specialists to constructively contribute in the INNOVATIONS of the organization and be rewarded in a commensurate manner.

BOUNDARIES ARE DRAWN BY US, IT'S OUR CHOICE TO EXTEND SAME and REAP THE BENEFITS of ENTERPRISE 2.0!!