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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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7 February 2012 at 16 : 43 PM
Poll results: English in Brazil IT
The IT Decisions LinkedIn group recently asked readers a question related to the use of English in the IT industry in Brazil: How important are English skills to IT professionals in Brazil? We checked the group today to see the results and they are quite conclusive. 76 per cent of respondents said that a knowledge of English is now essential ...
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31 January 2012 at 10 : 12 AM
Is English essential for IT professionals?
The use of English is a topic we have returned to often at IT Decisions. Brazil doesn't use English as a first language, but the international IT industry does - even programming languages use keywords in English - so how essential is it for IT professionals to be at least competent when working in English? When we published our research into the issues ...
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30 December 2011 at 14 : 24 PM
A foreigner’s Portuguese language journey
I arrived in Brazil earlier this year and knew that I would need to use Portuguese to survive here, but my attempts to learn the language while I was still living in London were beset with problems. ...
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23 November 2011 at 05 : 46 AM
Rhodia IT chief on issues facing Brazil IT
IT Decisions recently ran an interview with Rhodia’s infrastructure and strategy director Fernando Birman about the plans his company has for their merger with fellow chemicals firm Solvay. We also asked Birman about the IT industry in Brazil in general and captured his thoughts on this video. In this video, the Rhodia IT executive describes: The ...
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17 November 2011 at 10 : 20 AM
J&J: CIOs must look at Brazil IT
Johnson & Johnson has been doing business with Brazilian IT companies since 2004. In this interview, the firm’s IT manager for global services, Nigel Storey, tells IT Decisions about his ...
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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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3 November 2011 at 05 : 45 AM
State of Brazil IT: What does Brazil IT need?
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This section summarises the past few articles and issues a call to action for everyone in the IT industry in Brazil today... Click here for the complete State of ...
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1 November 2011 at 19 : 42 PM
State of Brazil IT: English for tech professionals
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This chapter of our report State of Brazil IT discusses the language skills - English in particular - of Brazilian technology professionals. English is not ...
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12 October 2011 at 15 : 06 PM
Brazil IT needs more foreigners
I have been browsing the discussion boards on LinkedIn recently, looking at what people in the Brazilian IT industry are saying they think is needed to improve things here. One online proposal caught my eye earlier today - invite more European IT professionals to come and work in Brazil. ...
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