Browsing Tag brazil
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25 April 2013 at 14 : 23 PM
Gringoes: why would you live in Brazil?
I'm a regular reader of the Gringoes.com website. It's a magazine for foreigners living and working in Brazil and the downsides of being in Brazil are a regular theme of articles and discussion, particularly in the associated Facebook group where readers can vent their opinion openly without the need for an editor to approve what they submit to the ...
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29 January 2013 at 16 : 20 PM
IT Decisions at Campus Party 2013
I was delighted to speak at the sixth Campus Party in São Paulo today. My talk this afternoon focused on how companies can use social media with a focus on describing step-by-step the planning process for using these tools. My talk was a part of the UKBrasil Season of events, a six month programme of events building a legacy from the London 2012 Olympic ...
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26 September 2012 at 15 : 34 PM
How Twitter Saved Bletchley Park
Dr Sue Black is an internationally-known computer scientist. She is is a Senior Research Associate in the Software Systems Engineering group in the the Department of Computer Science at University College London and a Senior Consultant with Cornerstone Global Associates. Dr Black visited Brazil recently and toured the country lecturing on Bletchley Park ...
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5 September 2012 at 15 : 28 PM
How Will You Be Watching the Rio Olympic Games?
How did you watch the London Olympic and Paralympic games? Did you follow the coverage on TV offered by the BBC and Channel 4 or were you watching on a phone or iPad, catching video clips offered up from various social networks? London 2012 was the first Olympic games where social media and mobile devices played a big part in the experience. Don't forget ...
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14 May 2012 at 18 : 49 PM
ITD Research: Social media and the CIO
Social media is now deeply embedded in the corporate world in Brazil. About 90% of Brazil-based businesses are using social networking tools to promote their products and services and many large organizations now turn to these tools as the first place to look when hiring new employees. ...
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10 May 2012 at 16 : 31 PM
Changing Emphasis at IT Decisions
You might have noticed some changes on the IT Decisions website recently. That’s because we have shifted our focus and direction a little. Last year our focus was really on research – we built a fantastic community of some of the most important and interesting technology executives in Brazil and we talked to them regularly to crowdsource their views ...
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3 April 2012 at 16 : 08 PM
ITD Research: How Brazil firms use IT as a business advantage
CIOs worldwide often talk about how "the business" does not appreciate how technology can be used as a competitive advantage. This ITD research report investigates how Brazilian companies are faring in that respect. ...
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23 March 2012 at 05 : 06 AM
How customer service is changing with IT
Last week a group of international industry analysts visited São Paulo in Brazil and Bogotá in Colombia to explore how the customer experience company Teleperformance is operating in South America. In this video Juan Hurtada, the Teleperformance CEO for Colombia, and Gabriel Toscana, the Nearshore Division COO, give their views on a number of ...
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22 March 2012 at 17 : 51 PM
Feedback: Brazil and CeBIT 2012
Roberto C Mayer is the CEO of research firm MBI and president of the Brazilian chapter of Latin American federal IT association ALETI. IT Decisions spoke to him in São Paulo and asked for his feedback on the CeBIT conference in Germany earlier this month. In this video Roberto talks about: How Brazil IT is opening itself to the world far more than ...
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22 March 2012 at 17 : 26 PM
Analyst impressions of Brazil and Colombia
Last week a group of international industry analysts visited São Paulo in Brazil and Bogotá in Colombia to explore how the customer experience company Teleperformance is operating in South America. In this video Daniel Hong, the lead analyst focused on customer interaction for Ovum gives his views on the hi-tech service centers he viewed in both Brazil ...
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