Recent high-wire tensions between India and Pakistan over recent Mumbai attacks have reactivated the urge to treat freedom as a blessing from God and take liberty to use it the way it deserves. Correlation exists between freedom and Business Continuity and though I admit that businesses are well aware and well educated regarding importance of [...]
Pakistan has all the fundamentals in place to emerge as one of the leading global IT destinations. These include our cost advantage over other leading countries, including India and China, as well as the presence of a large pool of local IT resources. As the sixth most populous country in the world, with some of [...]
Open Source and Linux are the buzz words in IT all around the world but why no one is talking about it in Pakistan is a whole different story. It’s a question that has to be bluntly asked: Why isn’t Linux being used in Pakistan’s IT industry? The answer is very simple.
The lack of awareness [...]
FRAMINGHAM (01/30/2009) – Corruption and fraud are not new to Indians, but few expected to find them in the IT-services industry. After all, this is an industry whose founders are professional entrepreneurs, whose principal customers are the world’s leading multinationals, whose shares are often listed on foreign stock exchanges (as is Satyam’s on NYSE), whose [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a global crisis far greater than the financial challenge. Perhaps it isn’t felt as much in Pakistan or the emerging markets because we have been a part of the ‘power load shedding” phenomena for years but global warming impacts each one of us. And companies who are making [...]
World Usability Day (worldusabilityday.org) was celebrated in Pakistan for the first time at an event organized by the Interaction Design Center (www.ixdc.org) at the University of Management and Technology in Lahore on November 13, 2008. The event was part of a globally-coordinated effort with simultaneous events taking place in 170 cities and 45 countries across [...]
It is important to realize that a country or a city is also at its core, a product that is available for sale or promotion in the global market. When we say it is ‘available for sale’, we mean that it is present in a global market place competing with different cities and countries; each [...]
Sajjad Syed is the Managing Director for SAP in Pakistan. In a time when one would think companies have to cut costs, Sajjad talks about how smart investment in technology and infrastructure and how it will help Pakistani companies grow in the longrun. “Companies have to invest today so they are prepared for the growth [...]
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