GDP
RSS GDPPredictive Analytics in Perilous Times
White Paper In the past year, housing markets have collapsed, credit markets have frozen, venerable Wall Street firms have evaporated, the nation's automakers have approached the brink of failure, GDP has contracted, and... [16 Sep 2009]
Automating the Quote-to-Cash Process
White Paper Recent years have seen logistics costs as a percentage of GDP increasing considerably. Global marketplaces have spurred the growth of global supply chains, making them hotly contested areas for business. [31 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News A recent study estimated that online business services could add 0.2 per cent to annual GDP growth, create a million new jobs and allow hundreds of thousands of new SMEs to take off in Europe over the next five years. [09 Jul 2009]
Improving Quality and Increasing Cost-Efficiency and Effectiveness of Care Delivery
White Paper National health spending as a share of GDP weighs in at over 15% and this figure has increased more than 10 percentage points since 1960. While healthcare costs in the United States are rising faster than in the rest of... [23 Apr 2009]
Web Conferencing for Nonprofits: Technology You Can Use
White Paper When compared to other sectors of the economy, the nonprofit sector accounts for 5.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 8.3 percent of wages and salaries paid in the United States. The nonprofit sector is a... [03 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Want to beat the economy?
Comment Continual business and country GDP growth is fundamentally impossible across this planet of limited physical resources but it may well be possible in the world of bits. Here we are in an ever-complex world, driven by... [26 Feb 2009]
How to beat the downturn? Get on your mobile
News Alierta pointed to what he described as the "multiplier effect" of the telecoms sector on national economies - where increasing use of mobile phones in developing economies is linked to a corresponding growth in GDP. [18 Feb 2009]
PC shipments drop as credit crunch bites
News We've had basically lower GDP projections, questions about how US bailout money is going to be spent. After several years of seemingly tireless 15 per cent quarterly growth, the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008. [15 Jan 2009]
IT spend to fall even further
News Our US tech market forecast now assumes that the.decline in US real GDP in [the third quarter of] 2008 will accelerate in [the fourth quarter of] 2008 and the first half of 2009, before a weak recovery starts", Andrew... [10 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment And getting fibre to the home and office is a real national requirement on every level from future health and education through to GDP generation and future standing in world markets. I'm not generally moved to make... [25 Sep 2008]
Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent
News It predicted growth in the technology industry at one to three per cent above UK GDP saying that a slowdown was expected in consumer electronics and telecoms but there was a more positive outlook in the electronics sector. [14 May 2008]
Wanted: Women must save IT industry
News The report says: "Expanding the pool of IT talent is a business and national imperative as an increasing portion of UK GDP can be attributed either directly or indirectly to IT activity. The future of the UK's IT... [15 Apr 2008]
BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash
News But the current review of the EU telecoms framework must give equal attention to the different needs of multinational business customers which account for around 35 per cent of EU GDP. BT has released research that... [08 Apr 2008]
Indian IT outsourcers look ahead
Comment By 2010 the IT software and services sector will deliver 10 per cent of India's GDP. But that success emphasises how much of the Indian population still remains at the margin, barely registering on the conventional... [14 Feb 2008]
Indian tech booming with a healthy spring in its step
News As a proportion of national GDP the Indian tech sector will hit 5.5 per cent in 2008, up from just 1.2 per cent in 1998. The Indian tech industry is expected to generate around $64bn in revenues in 2008 - a 33 per cent... [13 Feb 2008]
