Welcome to yet another issue CEO Pakistan. Personally speaking, I am more comfortable with the designation of the CEO than the other designations, simply because it is probably one of the easier designations to identify and link with the leadership of an organization. And because it signifies leadership, it is easier to identify and approach [...]
CIO Pakistan Touches the Future In China!
Amid reports of dwindling sales for HP in desktop and notebook markets, the Touch the Future Now event was held in Beijing, China, towards the end of May 2009.
Throughout, the HP representatives kept the onus on the Future (which they were looking to touch, now!) and kept away from [...]
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 [...]
Umair Naeem takes a look!
We’ve all been here before: writing or reading about convergence and how the next big medium is the Internet. Some have said that it could get brands penetration like never before while others contend that measurable metrics need to be in place and relevant target audiences within the Internet must be [...]
By Umair Naeem
The venue was the Ritz Carlton in Beijing, China; and the event was HP’s Touch the Future Now, and I am here, right in the thick of things! Media from a number of Asia Pacific and South Asian countries descended to cover the event, and the mood remained that of excited anticipation. With [...]
Hello and welcome to another issue of the quarterly CEO, put together so that the chief decision makers have easy access to relevant reading and thought provoking articles.
This issue features an in depth interview with Salim Ghauri, the founder and CEO of NetSol Technologies. Salim talks about the consistency needed to stay at the top, [...]
One of the key things that any CSO looks for in terms of improving the processes of a company is security. Security and privacy of data and information within the company, and how it is disseminated both internally and externally is vital. This is also something that has come to fore with the recent regulations [...]
March seems to have become synonymous with women. Primarily because of the celebration of International Women’s Day, and we were fortunate to be able to highlight some powerful women in the technology marketing space, this issue of CMO. Everyone is cutting back on budgets and usually, marketing is one of the first areas to go. [...]
There is so much discussion when it comes to gender equality and empowerment, you tend to stop reading the theory and start being practical. A team can be managed and it will barely survive. Lead a team with strong vision and clear purpose, and everyone will be a winner.
I am fortunate to have Samina Rizwan, [...]
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 [...]
Hello and welcome to another issue of the quarterly CMO! As always, we are looking to find ways of making our content more attuned to the needs of professionals and CMOs; all the while maintaining a grip on the current environment our industries face.
Technology changes everything. Not just the size or the process, but it makes a resultant impact on the speed with which a decision can take place. How does Technology evolve the everyday workings of a CXO? Umair Naeem takes a look
It was not long ago, when you’d enter your office as a manager, you’d [...]
Technology changes everything. Not just the size or the process, but it makes a resultant impact on the speed with which a decision can take place. How does Technology evolve the everyday workings of a CXO? Umair Naeem takes a look
Umair Naeem takes a look…
As Pakistan continues to go through increasing inflation and economic instability due to the political situation and the Rupee’s inability to hold on to the coat tails of the Dollar, local and multinational companies and SMEs face an unenviable situation: balancing cost and profit ratios by trying to predict how the [...]
Umair Naeem takes a look at the Mix!
Marketing has always stemmed from thinking up of products that make a difference in the consumers’ life, and ensuring that the consumers realize that very fact. The key in ensuring the latter fact is effective communication to the target market, and in an era where the consumer is [...]
The Business of IT: Campus Conversations Goes to Preston University
Campus Conversations: Bit by Bit, Frame by Frame at Iqra University
IBA Invent Comes to a Close:
Of Degrees and Salary-Scales: Campus Conversations at BIZTEK
Pizza for Breakfast: UBL CIO Hosts a Mentor Nashta
With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name
Where People Matter: Usability – Theme of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino
Lotus Knows Because It Makes An Effort – Cloud Computing Is It?
The UnConference that Could… and Did
Wave14 Launch in Lahore
Oracle Modernizes EFU’s IT Systems for its New Insurance App!
Operating On IBA’s Revised CS Curricula
All Hands on TweetDeck!
IBA Hosts its First CEO Forum
Oracle Hosts a CIO Dinner Discussion on Aligning IT Strategies to Business Needs