Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi About Ankur Prakash Ankur Prakash has worked for TCS for more than 16 years and specializes in strategy formulation and execution, IT services, BPO, and consulting. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Harvard Business School. About Tata Consultancy Services in Latin America TCS Mexico

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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

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Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, I understand the time zone issue. If you’re doing that kind of interactive customer relationship on every engagement, what is the technology infrastructure that is required? Does the technology collaboration infrastructure that you have put in place support that kind of customer interaction?

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

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Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: In terms of different engagements, César, I think core competency in iPhone apps or iPad apps is relatively a new core competency, but what is different about your expertise in BI? We have lots of Indian companies and Eastern European companies that do this; there

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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

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Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajesh Nair Sramana Mitra: What is happening in Buenos Aires? In 2007, I did strategic planning for MercadLibre, a client of mine. l learned a lot about what was going on in Buenos Aires then, and I learned at that time that entrepreneurship was about to happen in a

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Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajesh Nair Sramana Mitra: What kind of investors have you been able to attract ? Martin Migoya: Well, we have investors from Silicon Valley with private equity funds, which do not invest in early stage companies. They invest in companies that have the potential to grow, that are tapping

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