Brazil tells Europe ‘sort out your economy’
For the past few years, the IT Decisions team has been telling everyone who would listen that the technology industry in Brazil is an exciting place to be – we moved from Europe to be a part of this...
View ArticleEducation in Brazil – it no longer works
The popular Brazilian news magazine Veja has a striking front cover this week featuring a business executive with steam bursting from his ears above the headline ‘Não dá mais’ – it no longer works. The...
View ArticleNew BPO player: you need to be in Brazil
Genpact is a global giant in the world of business process outsourcing. They were spun out from GE in 2005, creating a service company that could serve GE and compete on the open market for other...
View ArticleQ&A: Genpact and the Twitterverse
When IT Decisions leader, Mark Hillary was recently about to meet the vice chairman of Genpact, Pramod Bhasin, he asked his followers on Twitter for their questions. Mark chose the three best questions...
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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...
View ArticleBrazil economy set to overtake UK in 2011
As the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) arrives in São Paulo for their conference on the future of the Brazilian economy this week, they have just released new research indicating that Brazil is...
View ArticleRhodia IT boss on handling a merger
It’s all change at specialty chemicals firm Rhodia. The French company has been acquired by Belgium-based firm Solvay earlier this year and IT is an important aspect of the merger, so IT Decisions...
View ArticleBrazil is not ready to handle cyber attacks
This week, international technology security experts McAfee and European think-tank the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) released their Global Cyber Defense Report focusing on cybersecurity – and it...
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Brazil will lead in service and marketing innovation
Recent research from social media research firm Semiocast shows that Brazilians are now second only to the USA in their use of the micro-blogging service Twitter. The U.S. still top at the 1st place on...
View ArticleLatest 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...
View ArticleGringoes: 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,...
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