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Wesco International Leading B2B Supply Chain
Wesco International has structure, strategy, sustainability and vision — with international recognition flooding in and a place on the elite Fortune 500 list. Wesco International was established in 1922 as the distribution arm of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Corporation, a
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Many a Titter about Twitter as Musk Bungles his Big Purchase
Dust off your shovels! Elon Musk has bought himself into a $44bn hole, and you’re expected to dig him out of it…. Since Elon Musk’s official takeover of Twitter on October 28, the social media platform has been suspended in
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Mortgages Agreed Within Seconds? This Banker Vaults Digital Frontiers
KBC Bank chief executive Johan Thijs has no truck with bureaucracy or time-wasting — but stays upbeat, reports Wim Romeijn. Meet Kate. She’s your personal digital assistant. Ask her anything and she’ll show you the way. Now, Kate is —
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Paolo Sironi, IBM: All Eyes on Financial Services Cyber-Resilience
No industry is fully immune from cybersecurity threats, from water pipelines to healthcare, financial services included. According to experts, regulators and government officials, all signs indicate that cybersecurity is here to stay and, most of all, is categorically different from
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UNCDF: Growth Capital Plan to Assist the World’s Least-Developed Nations
The International Municipal Investment Fund and allied initiatives will support entities with the potential to make a real difference in frontier markets. The International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF) UNCDF and Meridiam signed an agreement to collaborate on the International Municipal
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How Do You Define the Metaverse?
Bashar Kilani, managing director at Dubai-based Accenture, gives CFI.co readers the low-down on the hi-tech trends that enable organisations to build a digital core. Significant cultural shifts tend to start in a place — such as Renaissance Florence, Vienna in
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Making Expo 2020 Deeply Personal: How Accenture Helped Put the Visitor at the Heart of the World’s Greatest Show
When we first started working with Expo and Etisalat Digital over six years ago, they had bold and ambitious plans for what they wanted Dubai’s Expo to be. Now that it’s all over, we can say without argument that Expo2020
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The Great Dictator Becomes More and More Isolated
Russian fat cats are, of course, no longer welcome in Europe. But now, their four-pawed relations have been declared ‘non grata’ as well. The executive board of the Luxemburg-based Fédération Internationale Féline (Charmingly abbreviated to FIFe) ruled that any cat
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IFC: After Glasgow, Four Steps to Keep Us On Track
The UN Climate Conference in Glasgow saw a flurry of commitments and proposals to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C. While there was concrete headway on several fronts, COP26 also underscored the enormity of the task still ahead. Four clear signposts
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Interview with Alexis Lecanuet, Accenture Middle East: Creating Value Through Continuous Transformation
How has your professional journey qualified and prepared you for being the Middle East Region MD for Accenture? As a true veteran at Accenture, starting my journey with the company back in 1996 – I am proud to champion large-scale
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