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February 25, 2013

Potential of Emerging-Market Cities

February 25, 2013/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 25FEB2013 from https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Globalization/Unlocking_the_potent... A massive wave of urbanization is propelling growth across the emerging world. This urbanization wave is shifting the world’s economic balanc...

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February 25, 2013/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Analytics, Globalization
January 18, 2013

Technology, Media, and Telecom Can Transform

January 18, 2013/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 18JAN2013 from https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/technology_media_entertainme... In technology, media, and telecommunications, companies are vying for position in what has rapidly become known as the post-PC era—an age whe...

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January 18, 2013/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Socio-Technical
June 23, 2012

Benefits and Risks of Outsourcing

June 23, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Exracted 23JUN2012 from http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/06/22/why-president-obama... ...outsourcing is a good business strategy. It improves efficiency, speeds up product development, and allows companies to focus on their “cor...

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June 23, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Best of 2012, Globalization, Security
June 22, 2012

Calendars in the Cloud

June 22, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 22JUN2012 from http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/06/webmakers/?utm_source=feedburner&u... For most people the personal cloud means two things: It’s your data up there, plus apps and services that work with your data and connect you to ...

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June 22, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Favorites in Socio-Technical, Socio-Technical
June 06, 2012

Mobile Advertising

June 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JUN2012 from http://digitalbrandmarketing.com/2011/05/10/mobile-advertising-is-expected-to... Whether you are aware of it or not, the iPad and its clones have created a revolution. They are changing the using habits of computer users. ...

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June 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Analytics, Socio-Technical
April 22, 2012

Afghanistan Strategic Partnership with U.S.

April 22, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 22APR2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/world/asia/us-and-afghanistan-reach-partner... After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges ...

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April 22, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization, Logistics-Transportation, Security
March 18, 2012

Homage to 15th Century Venice

March 18, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7e5nqng 1474: Venice passes the first-known written law to grant and protect patents. The crafts guilds, especially those of Venice’s lucrative glass-blowing trades, had their own restrictions, but the s...

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March 18, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Best of 2012, Socio-Technical
January 31, 2012

Transformational Trends in BPO

January 31, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 01FEB2012 from http://www.outsourcingleadership.com/knowledgebase/articles/business-process-... Rahul Kanodia, CEO and vice chairman of Datamatics adds, "Today it's no longer just about cost. Buyers want you to produce value from more co...

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January 31, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Best of 2012, Favorites in Socio-Technical, Globalization
January 08, 2012

Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report

January 08, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09JAN2012 from http://gcr.weforum.org/ttci2011/ The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011 measures and analyzes the drivers of T&T competitiveness in economies around the world. Its main goal is to provide a useful tool for govern...

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January 08, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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December 15, 2011

Open Source in Business Process Outsourcing

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.accenture-blogpodium.nl/innovation/opensource-itmegavendors/ In the last 5 years global enterprises have been experimenting with open source and kept an open mind to using it. Now, the open source software marke...

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December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Socio-Technical
December 15, 2011

Why Community Is as Critical as Content

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/12/14/discussion-community-content/ the community generates content too, and that your community can build on the strength of the ideas and the links that the users come there to share... Matt Thom...

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December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Socio-Technical
December 15, 2011

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://socialmediatoday.com/ducttape/404763/5-trends-will-shape-small-busines... Social networks evolve into markets. As social networks become more important in the lives of their users and the level of social behavior co...

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December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Socio-Technical
December 15, 2011

Time for Big Investments in the Middle East

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/its_time_for_big_investments_i.html Ahmet C. Bozer* The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a rapidly diversifying, entrepreneurial, and globally connected business region. It saw 5% annu...

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December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization, Security
December 14, 2011

Top Angels Talk About Irrepressible Seed Market

December 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.pehub.com/129170/top-angels-talk-about-the-irrepressible-seed-mark... Seed investing fell 56% in the recent third quarter to the lowest level of the past six years, according to the MoneyTree Report. The questio...

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December 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Finance
December 14, 2011

SBA Financing of Early-Stage VC

December 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://www.pehub.com/128631/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-raise-an-early-stage-vc-fund/ The federal government played nursemaid to the venture capital market through its SBIC program launched in 1958. Now it’s looking to the same...

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December 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Finance
December 15, 2011

AlwaysOn Venture Summit

December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15DEC2011 from http://tinyurl.com/cctzpc4 Robert Hof provides highlights of the Summit in "What's Coming in Venture Capital in 2012: More Disruption for the Disruptors" the asset class is performing, mostly through mergers and acquisitio...

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December 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Finance
December 12, 2011

Predictive Analytics World

December 12, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 12DEC2011 from http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/ The only conference of its kind, Predictive Analytics World delivers vendor-neutral sessions across verticals such as banking, financial services, e-commerce, entertainment, governm...

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December 12, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Analytics
November 30, 2011

Insurance and Economic Development III

November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30NOV2011 fromwww.unctad.org/en/docs/ditctncd20074_en.pdf Given the importance of the insurance sector, its potential for growth, rapidly emergingtrends within the sector including the trend towards liberalization of insurance services, ...

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November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Finance, Globalization, Security
November 30, 2011

Insurance and Economic Development II

November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30NOV2011 from http://www.zurich.com/insight/downloadlibrary/ What is the role of insurance in economic development? (2008) Fortunately, in the past few years, several interesting lines of research have begun to map the specific contribu...

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November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Analytics, Favorites in Security and Risk, Security
November 30, 2011

Insurance and Economic Development

November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 30NOV2011 from www.iifdc.org/pubs/Insurance%20Assessment%20Report.pdf [The claims and evidence in this report, produced in 2006, are important in the current climate of accelerating globalization.] Given the lack of global information on...

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November 30, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ 2 Comments
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Analytics, Favorites in Security and Risk, Finance, Security, Socio-Technical
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