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Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 5)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, did I hear you right that the one program that India implemented incredibly successfully in the early days of outsourcing was to give the industry a tax breaks, which is not the Latin American strategy, from a development point of view? Ankur Prakash: I
Latin America Rising
I have been interested in Latin America for more than 15 years, although my involvement with business in the region started only in 2007, when I visited Buenos Aires for a client engagement. Since then, I have closely followed the ever-growing reach of MercadoLibre, Latin America’s e-commerce leader, in the form of an interview with founder
Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 4)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: In terms of dynamics of geography, in India, for example, we see that the big cities where the outsourcing industry really got started and matured such, as Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida, have become very expensive, and companies like yours are
Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 3)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana: And how big a factor is language in your work in Latin America? Ankur: For global customers, all the people whom we recruit are bilingual, so more than 90% of the people are bilingual. We ensure that all these employees are continuously in touch with the
Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 2)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, in terms of the evolution of outsourcing in Latin America, how do you manage the situation? How do you manage a region that is maturing late compared to India. The number of people with five or 10 years of experience is a lot fewer,
Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 5)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: What are the strategies you use? How do you improve English-speaking skills? César Gon: We have an official annual evaluation for each employee of the company. We have a lot of full-time English teachers inside the company, providing specific training for different people, and we
Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 3)
By Sramana Mitra and guest4 author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: I understand. What I am asking is a slightly different question, you seem to have core competency in BI, and you have core competency in mobile application development. Now, one of the comments I have heard from a lot of CIOs is that the combination
Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 1)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi About César Gon Brazilian software entrepreneur César Gon has been a key player in several initiatives to promote excellence in software development. Under Gon’s leadership, CI&T’s roster of services has grown to also include business intelligence, SAP consulting, and digital marketing. The company has developed solutions for major
