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Суббота 7 сентября 2024

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Year of great uncertainty. New energy

For fossil fuels, 2021 will not be easy considering the uncertainty surrounding post-pandemic demand and pressure to shift towards renewable sources. Oil production will continue slowly declining through March 2021, and may rise modestly through year end. The pandemic-caused economic disruption will keep to negatively impact global demand for natural gas, especially from industry. The next five years will see the energy transition reaching a tipping point. New build renewable energy will cost less than the marginal cost of fossil…

Year of great uncertainty. Remote work

In 2020, for all kinds of businesses and organisations around the world working remotely became the new normal that they will continue to adapt to in 2021. Leaders have to rethink how their organisations operate, how staff are connected and supervised, whether the business model is still sustainable or their office space appropriate, etc. One of the implications is embracing the “anywhere operations” model, i.e. for the business to be accessed, delivered and enabled anywhere, which is now key to…

Point Nine: Today and Tomorrow of Regulatory Technologies

Successful Business talks to Point Nine, a company that focuses on providing trade and transaction reporting services to legal entities across the globe. With offices in Cyprus and London, Point Nine collaborates with both buy-side and sell-side financial firms, service providers, and corporations to help them ensure high quality and accurate reporting to remain compliant. We speak with Andreas Roussos (pictured), Theo Mallas, and Christina Barbash about the today and tomorrow of Regulatory Technology, known as RegTech, and the challenges…

Restart Cyprus: now. Healthcare

Additional measures to help Cyprus health system become more efficient, impactful and in line with best practices from leading health systems across the world. It has been over eight months now since Covid-19 first appeared in Cyprus, shaping a new reality and transforming the way we conduct our lives and businesses. Practical measures for our health system should help manage health crises and future Covid-19 waves in a more decisive, planned and controlled manner. • Building surge capacity and ensuring…

How self-service is future in all industries

Kyriakos Kyriakou, General Manager, NCR Cyprus Ltd. MSc Technology Management, Umist University in Manchester, UK. 20 years experience in IT sector, 15 of those at NCR

As the first international IT company to come to Cyprus, NCR has offered technological solutions to local companies and the Government of Cyprus for the last 65 years. Successful Business Magazine discusses today’s challenges and future changes in the IT world with Kyriakos Kyriakou, NCR’s general manager. NCR is one of the oldest Cyprus companies with the newest technologies. What was the initial reason to create the regional Cyprus office in 1955? When NCR decided to open operations in Cyprus,…

Restart Cyprus: now

In May 2020, PwC issued its first set of transformative proposals, addressed to the government, the business community, and the society at large, towards creating a stronger and more competitive economy. The Successful Business Magazine is publishing a renewed set of propositions (released in December 2020), calling for immediate action to Restart Cyprus: Now. We have prepared a summary of the report. You may find the full version on www.pwc.com.cy. Evgenios Evgeniou CEO, PwC Cyprus "...In Cyprus as we…

Year of great uncertainty

2021 is the year to expect the unexpected. While many trends of the previous years will continue, their path may deviate pressured by unpredicted developments that Covid-19 is causing on the global markets. Let’s have a look at what role vaccine rollouts will be playing in the year ahead, how technology will keep on evolving, and why the new ‘remote’ life will be driving the changes. VACCINE ECONOMY The key factor defining how life will be through 2021 is the…