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22 December 2011 at 16 : 37 PM
ITD helps to connect UK-Brazil IT industry
If you are based in London then you might be interested in an event on January 20th at the Brazilian embassy. UK Trade & Investment along with the main British ICT trade association, Intellect, are hosting an event focused on the hi-tech IT and communications sector in Brazil - in particular the opportunities for Brazilian and British firms to work ...
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29 November 2011 at 20 : 22 PM
Proposals for a better Brazil in 2022
Claudio Porto is the founder and president of management and strategy consultancy Macroplan. Earlier this year, he launched a book, "2022 - Propostas para um Brasil melhor no ano do do bicentenário," which presents a reflection about the opportunities that can be seized by the country by the time of the 200th anniversary of its independence. ...
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16 November 2011 at 11 : 32 AM
Renner board bets on IT to grow
The recent Economist Brazil Summit in São Paulo focused on how Brazil will change in the decade to 2022 - a significant date because it will mark 200 years of independence from Portugal. One of the conference speakers was Deborah Wright, an independent member of the board at Lojas Renner, one of the largest department store retailers in Brazil. ...
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15 November 2011 at 10 : 33 AM
Nearshore Americas: How do you define Brazil IT?
Kirk Laughlin is the founder and editorial director of Nearshore Americas, a web site that has now spun off a new title called Sourcing Brazil. IT Decisions caught up with Laughlin at the recent Brasscom Global IT Forum in São Paulo and asked him for his view on what is happening in the Brazil sourcing marketplace. ...
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14 November 2011 at 13 : 06 PM
Neo Group: Brazil IT will soon be bought
Neo Group founder and chief executive, Atul Vashistha, is well-known and respected in the international sourcing marketplace for his advisory work with Neo as well as his books and additional roles with the IAOP and US government. He attended the recent Brasscom Global IT Forum in São Paulo, so IT Decisions asked him for some of his thoughts on present ...
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11 November 2011 at 09 : 24 AM
IAOP: Brazil IT should not copy other countries
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) is a global network of over 110,000 executives involved in the outsourcing business. Michael Corbett founded the IAOP in 2005 and is the association's current chairman. He was in São Paulo last week for the Brasscom Global IT Forum and IT Decisions caught up with him on the sidelines of ...
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10 November 2011 at 15 : 36 PM
Interview: Virgílio Almeida, Ministry of Science & Tech
The Brazilian government is adopting a sharper focus on technology policy to ensure the opportunities within the sector are properly leveraged. ...
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9 November 2011 at 13 : 00 PM
IDC: Brazil IT is not thinking of the future
David Tapper, from industry analyst group IDC, knows the outsourcing marketplace inside out. His own take on the strategy being outlined for Brazil at the Brasscom Global IT Forum was that most in the industry are being too short-sighted and focused on business models that used to work - not the business models of the future. ...
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8 November 2011 at 15 : 18 PM
Hulcher CIO: “Promises won’t make me buy more”
Despite having a positive experience in offshoring software development and testing to Brazil, the chief information officer at railroad contractor Hulcher Services said he is yet to see concrete results when it comes to addressing some of the sector’s main issues. ...
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7 November 2011 at 11 : 48 AM
J&J: We love working with CI&T in Brazil
This is a short extract from a customer case study delivered to the Brasscom IT Forum last Friday by Nigel Storey, IT manager, global services at Johnson & Johnson. In his talk, Nigel was talking about his experience of working with CI&T in Brazil on a variety of IT projects. As you can tell, even from this short extract, J&J is quite a ...
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