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Some notes from Serbia

by Mark Raskino  |  April 6, 2009  |  Comments Off

Last week I visited Serbia for the first time.  Our excellent distributor in Belgrade Petar Kocovic made sure I was well looked after. We had an excellent turn-out for my presentations on CEOs issues and IT,  IT Cost cutting and of course – the Hype Cycle. While I was there Petar explained that the recession [...]

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IT’s role in the causes of this recession

by Mark Raskino  |  April 6, 2009  |  3 Comments

When I’m giving presentations at the moment I frequently say that ‘IT isn’t to blame for this recession – that was the last one’.  The milder recession in the early part of the decade was led by a technology business capital expenditure slump, following the dot com crash.  However, this recession resulted from a drop [...]

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