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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Paul and Alex, please sign me up if you guys need and IT guy to do the grunt work with the “Star” project. My head is currently floating only at the cloud level but I think with a little push I believe I can make it up to the stars.
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Elaine, the security concern with BYOD in the workplace is a valid an important thing to consider for any company so due diligence is imperative. For example, my company uses Good Enterprise app to allow employees to access the company’s email on their personal smartphone. This app works on all phones but the key thing is that the company can do…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: Global & Information Technology, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Kerry, great to hear that Ford is able to leverage SAP to gain so much value added benefits. I have been a fan of corporate ERP that are done right because of all the reasons you have noted with your implementation. And yes, you are absolutely right that the information technology providers have really leveled the playing field for smaller…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Kumar, thank you for the feedback. As you noted, any perk that provides employees with a work life balance and a flexible workplace is huge for any company. And it doesn’t hurt that the company can get all the benefits that comes along with happy and engaged employees.
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Case Question: Wyeth Global IT, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Sam, the main reason I think IT globalization needs to be secondary is because IT has always been seen as an operational and supporting unit instead of a strategic partner to the business units. I am not sure that putting a global view on top of IT will change this perception of IT in the business units. Secondly, the current corporate culture…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Alex and Saqib, thank you both for the insights on how cloud-based solutions is or could make your practices more productive and efficient. I definitely agree with you both that security and stability as well as protection of IP will need to be addressed to entice more consumers and companies to the cloud.
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Kerry, I personally love Google Drive and have been using it for a long time now because of the very capability that your brother likes so much. I have shared documents and spreadsheets with family and friends to plan get together, dinners, and even a bachelor party. The ability to share, make changes, and not have to send/resend has definitely…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
LeRena, thanks for sharing the direction of your company. It was very interesting to read how your leadership is embracing cloud-based solutions and how they are already seeing the value in using these solutions. I am looking forward to using the cloud-based solutions and also appreciate the day that I am not tethered to the computer just to do…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Alex, I have only connected to the new secured Wi-FI network a few times but have been assured that no one can cause problems on the company’s intranet through the BYOD network. I have also always been very aware that connecting to a company’s network comes with the implicit agreement to be monitored and recorded. Although I am not too concerned…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: Global & Information Technology, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Alex, great analysis on how a multinational can leverage information technology providers to transition to a global company. I think that this approach may have helped Wyeth with its globalization effort as it could have reduced the capital expenditure in building out the regional support centers’s infrastructure. Without the capital expenditure…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Steve, I absolutely agree that the change management message needs to come from he corporate office. In Wyeth’s case, I think they were too ambitious in putting forth two major changes with one globalization strategy. IT globalization should be secondary to a bigger corporate effort to change the company’s culture away from having autonomous…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Saqib, I agree with your assessment that Wyeth was not built to get buy-in from the business units around the world. All these business units had autonomy for many years and it is understandable they would not buy into the new strategy without resistance. Without the strongand centralized senior leadership you mentioned, I can see why there were…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Alex, thanks for the feedback. You hit on two key things that I saw as a theme throughout the case. The first issue of trust or in Wyeth’s case mistrust between the business units and IT was evident. In addition, I also do not get of sense of trust between the many different businesses as they have always been left to do as they wanted before…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I would explain “the cloud” to a co-worker by logging on to Google Drive to show them how I access all my personal productivity applications and documents on the web using a browser. I demonstrate creating a spreadsheet and sharing it with them with the assumption they have a Gmail account. I would show them that we both make individually or col…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
BYOD is currently a very hot topic at my workplace now. A policy change was finally enacted 2 years ago to allow our personal smartphones to access the company’s email system. At the beginning of 2015, a new secured Wi-Fi network was created for our employees with the purpose for employees to be able to connect personal devices in the office. I…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: Global & Information Technology, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Information technology has definitely enabled the emergence of global brands. SAP and Oracle are great examples of information technology providers that have enabled global companies to build global brands such as Coca-Cola, iPhone, and Mercedes Benz. Additionally, SAP and Oracle are also great examples of information technology providers that…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The four major Amazon Web Services (AWS) are Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Database (SimpleDB), and Simple Queue Service (SQS). All four services targeted software developers in small to large companies. S3 provided an interface for storing and retrieving data from anywhere on the Web which allowed developers…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The SAP ERP system and Global Data Warehouse were designed with the intention of sending the transactional data generated by the SAP ERP system to the data warehouse. Wyeth’s business leaders could then leverage the global data warehouse to solve many of the information and decision making challenges presented to them. However, the development a…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: Business Models, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Joel, thanks for the follow-up and perspective. I can see how the Satya’s “customer obsession” should permeate the entire organization and serve as you stated the guiding light. Interestingly, I am one of those users that like to wait for version 2 of the Windows OS just because I know it is always better. Glad to hear of your optimism to the…[Read more]
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Duke Tran commented on the post, Reading Question: IT Investments, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Ron, thanks for sharing your own personal experiences. I am still shocked to hear that you have a digital team of only 6 people for a $2B company. We have dedicated digital teams for each of our business lines to prevent the problem you are having with many areas of the business competing for their services. It is frustrating for me to hear how…[Read more]
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