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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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23 February 2012 at 17 : 01 PM
Latest LatAm research from Tholons
The research and advisory firm Tholons has just released their latest paper focused on the hi-tech service sector in Latin America, specifically IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Naturally Brazil takes centre stage in the Tholons findings. You can read the entire Tholons Latin America report here, but our quick summary of the main comments focused on ...
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2 November 2011 at 07 : 01 AM
State of Brazil IT: plugging the skills gap
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 looks at the current issues around the skills of the country's technology workforce. Brazil is booming, and ...
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4 October 2011 at 19 : 24 PM
BT Global to hire 250 in LatAm
British telecommunications giant BT Global Services announced a series of new investments in the Latin America region with an aggressive target to double their LatAm revenue within the next three years. ...
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24 August 2011 at 18 : 15 PM
HfS: Govt should give incentives to IT providers
How do governments usually promote the IT sector in their country? Sponsor some trade missions where IT companies fly out to meet potential customers, or take out the 'platinum' sponsorship position at a big conference? How successful is that approach for a country like Brazil? Not so great. Phil Fersht, the founder and CEO of HfS Research believes ...
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17 August 2011 at 05 : 30 AM
IT’s Brazil: the technology skills gap
The Brazilian IT market has gone from strength to strength in the last few years. The sector is forecast to grow more than 10% in 2011, with revenues exceeding $182bn by year-end, up from $165.5bn generated in 2010, according to IT trade body Brasscom. However, does Brazil have enough people to cater for current and future demand? In the second ...
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29 June 2011 at 13 : 40 PM
Outsourcing: Brazil issues tackled head-to-head
IT Decisions has agreed to share relevant articles with our friends at Outsource magazine. They plan to publish some of our interviews in their magazine and we will carry some of their stories, whenever it's relevant to our respective readers. To start off this entente cordiale of outsourcing knowledge, we are featuring a head-to-head discussion between our ...
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2 June 2011 at 15 : 24 PM
Do Brazil stores compete with their own websites?
Patricia Timoner McManus is the Brazil and LatAm representative of GrowVC, a Finnish/English crowdsourcing tool that offers the opportunity for individuals to invest in the venture capital market. ...
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30 May 2011 at 16 : 26 PM
Start the week #13: Mayors in Brazil
Featured in this Start the Week podcast for the week commencing 30 May 2011: Mark Hillary talks about the various comments on the proposed outsourcing commission, the Klabin CIO interview, the forthcoming HfS webinar on sourcing in Latin America, and the C40 Mayoral summit. Of course, there is also the usual mix of comment and CIO interviews coming up and ...
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30 May 2011 at 15 : 26 PM
Wanted: more corporate creativity
Irene Tobón Restrepo is a Colombian documentary film-maker, now based in São Paulo. She has worked on various corporate social media programs, including the Web 2.0 transition of newspaper Robledo somos todos and a research campaign that attempted to make potatoes 'cool' for the international potato center in Lima, Peru. ...
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