Avasant President, Dr. Pradeep K. Mukherji addressed representatives from Trade Ministries from ASEAN countries at the recently concluded Temasek Foundation Center for Trade & Negotiations Dialogue on Services and Global Value Chains held at Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore, from June 23-24, 2014.
“Trade services integration into the national development framework could address the developmental challenges of Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC)”, recommended Dr. Pradeep K. Mukherji at the Commonwealth Seceratariat Workshop on Maximizing the potential of Services Trade: Priorities for Africa, held on 10-12 June 2014 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.
Avasant, the top ranked and award-winning global advisory firm, today launched Avasant Digital, a new practice area focused on advising enterprise C-suite leaders on the Digital Transformation.
The changing landscape of IT/BPO industry has led to the emergence of new locations in Africa. Among many African nations, Ethiopia is growing at the rate of more than 10% per annum and is likely to attain the middle-income status by 2025. Leveraging ICT with a focus on capacity building is catalyzing economic prosperity and creating sustainable employment opportunity in the country.
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has announced its annual list of the Top 20 global sourcing advisors. Avasant, LLC is proud to have been recognized as #2 overall in the global ranking among a peer group of recognized leaders in the sourcing advisory community.
Avasant CEO Kevin Parikh (@kevinparikh) joined the Wall Street Technology (WST) panel of digital visionaries in discussing how to tame the latest digital enterprise trends in order to drive preferred business outcomes.
The Human Cloud and the Cloud infrastructure are defining a new alternative to the traditional BPO services in various key segments of work. It is fast changing the dynamics of how the BPO industry has been operating. Service providers, in order to differentiate and avoid the commoditization penalty, will need to invest in this transformative model to stay competitive.
