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 have a lot of incentives for people to improve their English skills. We have done a lot during the hiring process to see if the candidate has good English skills. >>>

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 of those two, business intelligence and mobile applications on mobile devices, whether it is on iPhones, iPads, BlackBerries, or Android devices. This is key individual specific, personalized business intelligence that is specific to certain work flows and certain business drivers, this is an area that is not very prevalent yet It hasn’t been implemented very much at enterprises. Is it an observation that you are seeing in your businesses? Is that an observation that resonates with you?

César Gon: Yes, I think there is. It is not only BI with the mobile revolution, everything now should go from the desktop to the mobile. So, yes it just once case where it has happened. And of course, every time you go to a mobile device, the concept of user interaction is completely new and you need to pay a lot of attention to do this [right]. Even SAP users, the most conservative users in our sector are now required to engage with the SAP process to mobile device. So, it is really a trend. Another thing what we do different, is in the area of social media space. Social media is also a requirement today. If you go to the mobile space, you also need to go to the social media space, so it is very integrated in spite of its use to develop, to navigate the whole new thing. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: More New Tech Stocks

Tech Stocks continues to expand its coverage. This week, we feature microblogging platform tumblr. Click on the full article to read all of this week’s posts. >>>

Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold

John: We have about 50 top mentors who are listed on our website. Sometimes they provide only a few hours during the summer. Sometimes, they’ll come in and provide four hours every week because they fall in love with the program. They do it all free. >>>

Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold

Irina: How do you feel about bootstrapping of a business?

John: Personally, I think you should bootstrap for as long as you possibly can, as long as it doesn’t hinder your growth opportunities.

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Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold

John: I took me a couple years or a year and a half to research and decide what to do. I was going to launch in 2009 but the economy … you know, you start these things for a summer program in February or March. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: India’s Big Opportunity In SaaS

This week we featured two special Incubation Radar profiles, Freshdesk and Bizosys, as part of a discussion on India’s Big Opportunity In SaaS. Learn about what what these opportunities are by reading about these companies and listening to this week’s roundtable. Click on the full article link to see more. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Beyond Groupon

There Is A Trend To Spot In Groupon’s Growth Rate“>What can the success of Groupon tell us about new ways to tweak business models for other Internet companies, particularly media companies? Click on the full article to read all of this week’s posts/ >>>