Lessons from the front line: ensuring the maximum return on ERP investment decisions. By Mike Stanbridge, Infor.

The business world is unpredictable and ultimately imperfect. Managers are accustomed to making decisions with incomplete information and investing in strategic change without being able to fully test their assumptions of what that change will bring.  

By controlling the use of IT resources through strong information management and clear user guidelines, organisations can attain a far more robust, less expensive and more sustainable IT infrastructure, insists Richard Barker, CEO, Sovereign Business Integration.

Stephen Archer, business analyst and director of Spring Partnerships, outlines his economic and business predictions for 2011.

Hans Paulsen, managing director of Zamtel, Zambia’s only total communications solutions provider, talks to Jayne Alverca about the restructuring programme that is creating the foundation for a brighter future.

Polaris International Industrial Parks looks set to become an historic project that will cement economic relations between Turkey and Egypt. Osman Arikan, general manager, and Elif Gurpinar, corporate communications director, talk to Jayne Alverca.

Iceland has little in the way of natural resources with the exception of clean energy, which it is putting to good use to boost the economy, as Alan Swaby discovers.

In a fascinating insight into the flow of discarded garments from the West into the free ports of western India, and their subsequent return in different guises to Europe and the US, executive director Nohar Nath explains to John O’Hanlon how Kishco Group manages the complex net of supply, processing and demand.

Gianni Porta, operations directorfor Sub-Saharan Africa at civil engineering construction firm Impregilo S.p.a., talks to Jane Bordenave about the Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme.

Steve Timms, managing director of HGS Ghana Ltd, talks to Jayne Alverca about what it means to protect and enhance mining and industrial assets.

2010 was South Africa’s year of pride: it was never going to be easy to get back to business as usual following the World Cup but building world class infrastructure is still a work in progress for Goba, the country’s leading consulting engineering firm.