Few sectors straddle borders like outsourcing. The European Union made borders meaningless allowing the free movement of goods and people. Now Brexit is building those...
Tag - Technology & Innovation
Tech trends and breakthroughs from Central Europe to Central Asia
A year ago, at the end of October 2017, the operations of the Polish FinTech Aforti Exchange were being set up in Romania. Romania was the first foreign country where...
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, is home to over 450 active tech companies employing more than 25,000 IT specialists, says a recent large-scale study by PwC and...
Many countries in emerging Europe have established themselves as outsourcing destinations for foreign companies. Tom Quigley, CEO of the Emerging Europe Alliance for...
Slovakia and Slovenia are leading innovation in Central and Eastern Europe. According to the International Federation of Robotics, both countries used well above the...
ICT outsourcing is inevitable. Costs are going up, talent is becoming harder to find in mature and developed markets, offshoring/nearshoring are the way forward. There...
How CEE countries are primed to take advantage of the rapidly changing nature of the global sourcing industry
The stakes are high today, as we continue to live in a period of intense global economic volatility. Here in the US, with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), we’re...
Finding the right people is not a problem, but finding the right skills increasingly is.
Outsourcing and IT are playing increasingly important roles in supporting economic growth in emerging Europe.
When UK-based financial markets consultancy Catalyst Development were choosing a location for their first nearshore consulting hub earlier this year, they looked at...
Prague has been named as the best city in the world to spend cryptocurrencies, with 154 venues – including bars, restaurants, hotels, cinemas and attractions – now...
The Lithuanian global business service (GBS) sector saw 17 per cent growth in 2017, according to a new report from Lithuania’s investment promotion agency, Invest...