Change Management: The CIO's Roadmap - part 1
A successful, large-scale technology implementation, such as an Enterprise Performance Management or Business Intelligence rollout, has the potential to fundamentally alter the ways in which your organization conducts business, how decisions are made...
What's on the Horizon for the Next Five Years? Fletcher/CSI Asked the Opinion of 34,000 Business People... and Here are the Results
The five year survey examined potential scenarios from the perspective of changes in Society, Technology, Economics, Environment, and Politics (STEEP). For the society and technology portions, we looked at the emergence of social media on business and...
Ethical tourism vital to protect planet, UN officials underline
UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, opens the first International Congress on Ethics and Tourism
United States Patent and Trademark Office Issues 8 Millionth Patent
The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued its 8 millionth patent to Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., for a visual prosthesis apparatus that enhances visual perception for people who have gone blind...
'Black Swan' IT Projects With Out-of-Control Budgets Can Kill Enterprises
Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business projects, according to a recent study from Oxford University.
Global manufacturing likely to decline this year, says UN report
Workers assembling electronic goods in Indonesia
Analysis: West Bank dogged by high cost of trade
Palestinians buying traditional Ramadan sweets in Ramallah before ‘iftar’ (the meal that breaks the daily fast)...
EBRD in loan to Ukraine’s meat processor Globino Group
The EBRD is continuing to bolster Ukraine’s strong position as a major producer, processor and exporter of agricultural commodities via its large-scale programme of investments with major players in the national food and farming sector.
EBRD invests over 1.5 billion roubles in Russian gold miner
The EBRD has agreed to acquire for 1.53 billion roubles a 5.26 per cent stake in GV Gold, a privately owned mining company that is one of Russia’s top 10 gold producers.
