We’re Going Green! Turning a New Leaf

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 [...]

Celebrating Change Through Innovation

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”, [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to another issue of CMO

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 [...]

The New Year ReSOLUTIONS

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 Rapidly Changing Times

Welcome to the first quarterly CSO Pakistan. Prior to the launch of CIO Magazine in Pakistan, we asked members of the industry about what trends or information impacted them the most. An overwhelming number of professionals returned with one word: security. That made the decision to launch CSO as a quarterly add-on with CIO, much [...]

Hit the Ground Running

That’s us. And that’s what it would look like to the casual onlooker. As an industry, it is in our nature to observe the market, play out all the scenarios in our head and then execute. While it is critical to plan, the lack of chaos and excitement it might bring is just as dangerous.

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CIO Issue 1 Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of the local edition of CIO, the world’s largest Business Technology Leadership Publication brand. It’s an exciting time for the industry and certainly an exciting time for us to extend a phenomenal platform to all of you. After a decade of running Netxpress and covering the local industry, when the [...]