Datapoints: Who’s Doing what Online

Who’s Doing what Online
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http://ciopakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/09-06-datapoints-whos-doing-what-online.pdf

HR Trends in Pakistans IT Industry

HR Trends in Pakistans IT Industry
To read Click on the link below:
http://ciopakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/09-06-survey-hr-trends-in-pakistans-it-industry.pdf

‘MINE’ THE GAP’ Teradata Analytical Solutions Help Bank Alfalah Discover It’s Customers!

‘MINE’ THE GAP’ Teradata Analytical Solutions Help Bank Alfalah Discover It’s Customers!
Here are a few common problems faced by many institutions – several departments ‘contact’ one single customer, multiple times. Does that sound familiar? How about this one? You have a large branch network of isolated sites and it takes as much effort and investment [...]

‘MINE’ THE GAP

Teradata Analytical Solutions Help Bank Alfalah Discover Its Customers!
Here are a few common problems faced by many institutions – several departments ‘contact’ one single customer, multiple times. Does that sound familiar? How about this one? You have a large branch network of isolated sites and it takes as much effort and investment to gather that [...]

Industry Rising?

How much of the economic sludge can the new fiscal budget actually help to relieve? Every industry has its strong points to consider, hence making a business case to one association or another as to why or why not it should be in the tax net. But when you look at the Information Technology sector, [...]

Pakistan is the 6th most populated country. Facebook could be the Fifth

If there is anyone on the planet left wondering if Facebook is still a fad or simply something weaved into the fabric of our everyday lives, that’s a statistic that will blow your mind! According to UN estimates available on Wikipedia.org that puts the population of Pakistan at 166 million. Use this as a benchmark [...]

Ushering in New Beginnings Making Ends Meet

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 [...]

Switch on the Networking and Turn Up the Volume!

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 [...]

Is eCommerce Just a Buzz?!

The professional executive is considered to know what he is talking about. Especially when it comes to technology, if the CEO or, better yet, the Chief Information Officer says something, everyone stands up and listens. And this is quite true for the industry as well as colleagues within the company itself. They know, therefore they [...]

HR Trends in Pakistan’s IT Industry

HR Trends in Pakistan’s IT Industry READING THE
HR POLICY MANUAL
INSIDE OUT?
By Anoosha Pervaz
Not long ago, I remember coming across the term ‘Personnel Department’, used as a pseudo-name for Human Resource Department’ in local firms. This was so due to the limited nature of responsibilities assigned to the HR Department of a local firm as compared [...]

ICT Sector in Pakistan Touching New Lows

By Munawar Iqbal
“The report of WEF must be an eye-opener for decision makers as it suggests that a coherent government vision on information and communication technologies, coupled with an early focus on education is keys to spur network readiness and to lay the foundations for sustainable growth. For a sustainable ICT sector, the people at [...]

Pakistan: In The Line Of Wire

What’s on the mind of one of the most networked professionals of
Pakistan’s IT Industy? Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA,
shares her insights!

Why do you feel so passionate about promoting the local industry?
The Pakistan IT and ITES industry is such a vibrant and exciting industry. There is a lot of cutting edge work being done here and [...]

What’s In a Name?

Well, everything! And this becomes even more important when it comes to names on the internet. There are some domain names that aren’t part of your everyday lingua franca, but they still always get the repeat traffic because people can remember the name. And since there is such a fine science behind the art of [...]

POPism!!By Nubla Iftikhar

It is one of the oldest marketing principles. You build a better mouse trap and people will beat a path to your door. As a marketer, I often pop this question at myself: Is there is a thin line when describing the product-consumer entity? Does the consumer buy the product or the product buys the [...]

A CIO’s Guide to Pakistan By Talha Ghafoor

I was recently assigned to work on a project for a financial institution in Pakistan and had to travel to Karachi for a few days. For someone who is so plugged into the system, travel outside the comfort of the digitally integrated world, always proves to be an interesting experience. Keeping this in mind, [...]