Browsing Tag start the week
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18 July 2011 at 16 : 42 PM
Start the week #20: Train derailed and foreigners denied
Welcome to a new week and one where we are going to get back to the usual publishing rate, because we just enjoyed a major launch! ...
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11 July 2011 at 16 : 04 PM
Start the week #19: Rents up but Chinese coming
Welcome to a new week. In the past week we talked to the CIO of Onofre about skills shortages and ERP. We interviewed Anthony Miller of analyst firm TechMarketView, and noted that while money from China floods into Brazil, rents are rising at the fastest rate since 1997. The week ahead should be fairly interactive, through questions, polls and debates on ...
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4 July 2011 at 07 : 43 AM
Start the week #18: ITD CEO at London 2012
Another busy week at IT Decisions, and varied too. Not only did we talk to business leaders such as Paul Smith from Harvey Nash, but we documented a Digital Divide case study and highlighted the international success of Brazilian video experts Sambatech. We covered the ongoing hacker crisis and tried to give some commentary on what the attacks mean for ...
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13 June 2011 at 13 : 40 PM
Start the Week #15: words of management wisdom
Last week was a varied one. We had words of management wisdom from General Motors, whether or not English is required to work in IT in Brazil, and social media and transparency from the Gov2.0 conference, but we missed out on writing about the Gartner outsourcing summit because their hopeless PR agency decided they would not tell us any of the speaker ...
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6 June 2011 at 17 : 14 PM
Start the Week #14: Gartner thunders into town
It's Monday again and it's time for the ITD Start the Week podcast. Unlike some other information 'sources' focused on technology in Brazil, ITD is focused just on our opinion and interviewing decision-makers. We don't carry adverts here and we don't flinch from saying what's great and not-so-great about IT in Brazil. ...
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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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23 May 2011 at 17 : 36 PM
Start the week #12: Outsourcing disbelief
Featured in this Start the Week podcast for the week commencing 23 May 2011: Mark Hillary talks about our recent interview with the congressman responsible for the outsourcing commission. Mark wrote up some of his thoughts on the commission plans and there was some support, but also a lot of skeptics. It seems that even real estate agents and ...
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16 May 2011 at 16 : 47 PM
Start the Week #11: Outsourcing Commission
Featured in this Start the Week podcast for the week commencing 16 May 2011: Mark Hillary talks about our upcoming meeting with the new chair of the outsourcing commission - postponed from last week, a huge broadband rollout with Telebras, Brazil at CeBIT 2012, and some unusual social media activity. ...
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9 May 2011 at 07 : 09 AM
Start the Week #10: Wikinomics in Brazil
Featured in this Start the Week podcast for the week commencing 9 May 2011: Mark Hillary talks about the visit to Brazil by Don Tapscott, innovation with André Martins of VB Serviços, the Brazilian IT policy secretary talking education and our upcoming meeting with the new chair of the outsourcing commission. Plus the usual interviews with Brazilian CIOs ...
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25 April 2011 at 12 : 09 PM
Start the week #8: WEF comes to Brazil
Featured in this Start the Week podcast of week commencing 25 April 2011: Mark Hillary talks about president Dilma's elevation to the lofty heights of inclusion in the Time 100 most influential people, the Foxconn investment into Brazil, and the upcoming World Economic Forum in Rio this week. Listen! Photo by Ian Hayhurst licensed under Creative ...
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