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Hottest IT Trends

1. “Outside-In” Accelerates In today’s highly interconnected markets, many of the most important new business forces are taking shape outside the walls of your enterprise. To respond effectively to these changes, you’ll need a shift in mind-set, from inside-out to outside-in: leveraging innovation and technology outside your enterprise, from cloud to bring your own technology […]

China Influences African Manufacturing

The rise in African imports from China, and even more so other emerging partners, can be interpreted as trade creation instead of trade diversion (Berthélemy, 2009), the concepts that have been developed to analyze Free Trade Areas. Chinese development and financial assistance act as a subsidy on China’s exports to Africa, i.e. a distortion from free trade. Through trade creation, […]

Illinois Institute of Technology – School of Applied Technology

I recently joined the board of the School of Applied Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology and look forward to leading, managing and really building the next generation of programs for IIT alumni, improving the school brand and supporting the continued excellence standard expected from a world class university. ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED […]