A few months back, just before the Eid holidays began, I remember chatting with my friend living in UK. I asked him if he had completed the shopping for Eid? he said no! then I asked if he was planning on shopping at all this Eid? he said yes, I’ll just buy it online, I [...]
To a Pakistani, the phrase “going green” holds a great deal of significance. In line with efficiency, productivity and burning clean energy, there is a tremendous patriotic significance that comes into play with the color green. Technology, no doubt, has a critical role to play, which is why we associate the color green with that [...]
There are many things a CEO has to look out for. Whilst the CIO and the other members of the CXO profile have their relatively loose job descriptions mapped out, the CEO seems to be quite a bit more complex. The ‘executive’ or what some would also refer to as the role of the “executioner”, [...]
Can you share your corporate stories and achievements with us in less than 300 words? If so, click on the contact link and email them out to us! We’re introducing a new section in the magazine called “News Scan” and we want to hear about your achievements in the recent past!
By Umair Naeem
And yet another financial year comes to a close, with businesses everywhere wondering how to implement all the talk and discussion about the mean, lean times. Customers, both large and small, will only spend money where they feel they are getting the maximum return on their investment, no matter how small. Vendors have [...]
IT’S A BRAVE NEW WORLD OUT THERE!
To borrow a tagline from one of Pakistan’s largest community portals, teabreak.pk, I cannot emphasize enough as to what a critical role the web is playing in terms of shaping traditional media. An increasing number of journalists and anchors are looking to the internet to find their dose of [...]
customized marketing content for the C-Level executives, from CIO Pakistan!
The concept of marketing is all about creating the right perception in the minds of your target, in order for the target to appreciate and buy your product. This is something that remains constant, no matter what the product is that is being marketed. In the [...]
Accessing the Right Bandwidth
That might be the question you’re asking, depending on the network you’re using! And May celebrates World Telecom Day, we wanted to dedicate this issue of CIO Pakistan to one of the most progressively moving industries in the country.
You’ll find a lot of articles and interviews that have something to do with [...]
A Brave New World!
This has been a strange month and there is definitely a hint of movement in the air. With two more events under our belt, the CIO Pakistan team is getting a lot of hopeful feedback from people talking about change and progress. That’s always a good change of scenery.
Business is still slow [...]
The question “can things get any worse?” always makes for a hot topic of discussion. While businesses around the world brace for the worst, companies in Pakistan are simply being cautious. Perhaps the fact that we haven’t been as plugged into the global economies as we could have been, has been protected us from experiencing [...]
Ideally, this issue of CSO Pakistan should have focused on the political situation and linked it to the Cyber Crimes law that is in effect. The kind of correspondence and coordination that has been taking place prior to the Long March in Pakistan, would certainly have been an interesting aspect to cover, however most of [...]
I wouldn’t be honest if I said that it was easy to put together an issue of CIO. There are extremely high standards to meet and very specific issues that readers want addressed. But here’s another truth that must be shared: there are a lot of professionals within the IT and Business circles who take [...]
There is so much discussion when it comes to gender equality and empowerment, you tend to stop reading the theory and start being practical. A team can be managed and it will barely survive. Lead a team with strong vision and clear purpose, and everyone will be a winner.
I am fortunate to have Samina Rizwan, [...]
With so much focus on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Pakistani organizations and vendors want to find out what is happening in the local market. We’ve put together a series of surveys and polls, which will take you about 5 minutes to fill out.
Findings from this survey will be shared in the February 2009 issue [...]
At some point, you have to get tired of hearing ‘it’s going to be a tough year!’ – it’s no longer a prediction or a hypothetical statement. For a lot of businesses, it will sadly be a reality. Everything is ‘tight’ and budgets might not be streaming down the path of SI’s and vendors any [...]
The Business of IT: Campus Conversations Goes to Preston University
Campus Conversations: Bit by Bit, Frame by Frame at Iqra University
IBA Invent Comes to a Close:
Of Degrees and Salary-Scales: Campus Conversations at BIZTEK
Pizza for Breakfast: UBL CIO Hosts a Mentor Nashta
With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name
Where People Matter: Usability – Theme of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino
Lotus Knows Because It Makes An Effort – Cloud Computing Is It?
The UnConference that Could… and Did
Wave14 Launch in Lahore
Oracle Modernizes EFU’s IT Systems for its New Insurance App!
Operating On IBA’s Revised CS Curricula
All Hands on TweetDeck!
IBA Hosts its First CEO Forum
Oracle Hosts a CIO Dinner Discussion on Aligning IT Strategies to Business Needs