Datapoints: Telecom Timeline

Telecom Timeline
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http://ciopakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/09-05-datapoints-telecom-timeline.pdf

Datapoints: E-Pay

E-Pay
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http://ciopakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/09-04-datapoints-e-pay.pdf

How Secure is your Corporate Internet Policy

How Secure is your Corporate Internet Policy
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http://ciopakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/09-04-survey-how-secure-is-your-corporate-internet-policy.pdf

Activate your Brand

Activate your Brand

[April 22, 2009: Karachi, Pakistan] The Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) organized the workshop named “Activate your Brand” with Media partner CIO Pakistan.
The theme of the workshop was “branding your organization” with limited marketing/PR budget. Another topic discussed was “how to use media wisely?” P@SHA has launched a series of workshops [...]

CIO Pakistan Hosts a Round Table on the Challenging Technologies for Challenging Times

CIO Pakistan Hosts a Round Table on the Challenging Technologies for Challenging Times

The World’s Largest Business Technology media brand invites CIOs and Vendors to address the current crisis.
[April 22, 2009: Karachi, Pakistan] CIO Pakistan, an IDG publication, hosted a Round Table discussion entitled, “The Balancing Act: Challenging Technologies for Challenging Times” on Wednesday, April [...]

Human Capital Management

Human Capital Management

[April 18, 2009: Karachi, Pakistan] A conference on Human Capital Management (HCM) held in Marriot Hotel.
The conference was about “Industry-specific” discussions in order to address the challenges directly. Powerful plenary session with expert speakers allowed exploring ‘the bigger picture’ with special focus sessions to delve deeper into the key business issues and [...]

E-Pay

What’s the number of services running in Pakistan which employ mobile phones? Well, here are a few numbers the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority presented at a recent conference in Karachi.
Trial period for mobile service 50%
The estimated percentage of people who believe that a trial period is a necessity before purchasing a mobile service application in Pakistan
Pakistan [...]

To Manage or not

Everyone has become more competitive and every potential client you ever dreamed you’d land, has at least ten other companies a phone call away if you don’t give them what they want. Forget the global financial crisis for a moment, the economic and political turmoil that Pakistan is going through, is creating big rifts between [...]

Politically Activating Pakistan Online

Like any country, Pakistan has had a tumultuous ride through history to come as far as it has. A quick shuffle through the history books reveals only a small, perhaps more glamorous side of politics, culture and socialism that makes it seem inconsequential. But the recent advances in technology platforms, development tools and infrastructure have [...]

The Vicious Tender Cycle

The large contracts are always awarded through a tender process. Companies who meet the criteria and feel that they would like to submit their proposals to bid for the project. The project is announced in the paper and companies scramble to submit their proposals. So far, everything sounds good.
The good feeling of the proposal sinks [...]

Pakistan’s Long March goes live

A feature of life in Pakistan, as in many other Third World countries is that there has been a wide take up of mobile communication technology. Getting a telephone landline requires too money and too many bureaucratic hurdles so mobile phone services have seized the opening with relatively lower entry prices. One byproduct of this [...]

mCommerce Has a Future We’re Just Not Seeing It Yet!

The eCommerce hype has forwarded its hype towards mCommerce, and we’re still waiting and watching for the pieces to come together. With more than 90 million Sim cards in circulation, you would think that mobile commerce is a no-brainer! But before you cloud your thinking with an array of arguments, here are some points discussed [...]

By Jarina D’Auria, CIO (US)

ONE   Look for what lies beneath. Buried under overhead costs are “noncore expenses”-items not essential to the company’s products and services. (Think telecom costs or travel.) These costs are a good place to start cutting, says Philip Moorcroft, CEO of Moorcroft Group Professional Services. Cuts here could trim your overall budget by up to 10 [...]

It’s Outsourcing! It’s Responsible!! It’s Outsourcing Responsibly!!!

It’s all about cutting costs. Big companies want to downsize and reduce costs by outsourcing departments. Midsized companies usually don’t have the budgets to hire, hence they are always on the lookout for people they can contract out assignments or projects to. The reasons why companies want to outsource are fairly straightforward. But [...]

Where is the Cloud?

A chat with Zia Khan, founder of Operation Badar
Believe it or not, this Cloud that everyone talks about, has been around forever. Like most things, technology advancement, intervention coupled with professional innovation has been able to recycle concepts and repackage them into something more practical and significant.
Technology, in its essence, is about making processes more [...]