In comparison to the older markets of the US, UK, South-east Asia and Europe, who have learned through failures and success over centuries, the recent market recession was the Middle East’s first genuine failure
We’re all well-aware of how social media played key roles in the Middle East over the last several months
Revolutionary design, like the current rolling rebellions in the Middle East, overthrows the old order of design and interaction paradigms and introduces fresher, faster and easier ways to interact with the product
Over a good few years, I have been fortunate to have experienced a variety of Information Management projects aimed at achieving an even more kaleidoscopic set of objectives (or lack of) out here in the Middle East (more specifically the GCC)
Be ready for WikiLeaks reveals : “The US government doesn’t trust Middle East leaders”, really!
For instance in our case “Consumer Packaged Goods” is not a new business pipeline – it’s actually 4-5 discrete segments (all of which contain their own industry tags). 3) User-based : Due to our reporting structure both Europe and MENA ("Middle East North Africa") are now combined with Europe as a super EMESA region
At the top of the list is RIM’s Blackberry outage from an infrastructure failure that first brought down large parts of Africa and the Middle East before spreading to Europe and finally North America