And while the CIO WebStudio assumes a life of its own with the number of regular shows, one-off interviews and soundbytes, we’re adding Bandwidth TV into our spectrum. In addition to the Executive Panorama and the XFactor, a talkshow hosted by Imtiaz Mohammad, CIO Pakistan adds on an audio podcast called Hello! You can read [...]
A forum for discussion on the topic of Modern Day Marketing Communication was organized today at Avari Towers. It was put together by a group of SZABIST students to gather relevant data that would facilitate their thesis topic.
The list of people invited to this interactive discussion included, Ali Raza Merchant (Executive Dir. Synergy), Amir Rammal [...]
It was around this time, 10 years ago, that I was pulling an all-nighter for work. We had a January 15th deadline to put Netxpress out in the market and I had just completed transcribing interviews and writing out all the stories for that first issue. Y2K bugs were scaring the daylights out of everyone [...]
Eid, along with other festivities used to be so different in the age before Web 2.0 and cell phones. Today, telcos and web-based businesses brace themselves for the load that the holidays are going to bring. PTA gives out estimates that approximately 12 million SMSes are transmitted on a daily basis with the traffic increasing [...]
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”, [...]
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 [...]
Wateen hosted a Bloggers Meetup managed by Rabia Garib of CIO Pakistan and Badar Khushnood of Google Pakistan. I was available in the country and although I had a crazy schedule, there was no way that I was going to miss it. So off I went to Royal Rodale at 4 pm to meet up [...]
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 [...]
There has been a lot of talk about how policies will bring us the change we so desperately need. Agreed. There has been even more talk about how are missing opportunities left, right and center. Granted. And while I nod in agreement with all of these statements, I have to perhaps disagree with one fundamental [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the second issue of CMO Pakistan!
When Badar Khushnood (Google Pakistan) and CIO Pakistan collaborated on the Lahore Bloggers Meet in LUMS, the speed at which the viral marketing fever overtook the event was a sight you had to witness. It all happened right in front of our eyes: before the event, during the [...]
We’re fast approaching the end of the year – a period when everyone needs to take some time to reflect what we’ve accomplished, where we want to go and how we plan on getting there.
With the entire globe going through one economic crisis after another, there is a great deal of pressure on IT department [...]
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 [...]
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