Zemoga Wins Recognition as One of the Fastest Growing Firms in the U.S.
August 25th, 2010NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Award-winning digital innovation firm Zemoga announced today that it has been named to the 2010 INC. magazine ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States for the second consecutive year. Over the past three years, Zemoga has amassed an impressive 485% cumulative revenue growth record.
Debuting in 2008 as a companion to the well-known INC. 500 listing, the INC. 5000 is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, the companies on the list represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.
Zemoga moved up to #619 in the 2010 rankings from its #646 position in 2009. Last year, the company also …
Latin America ICT: Ranking the Top Five Telecom Markets
August 18th, 2010Chile Claims Top Spot Based on Advanced Infrastructure
By Tarun George
Over the next five years, LatAm wireless network traffic is slated to rise at a CAGR of 86% – pretty significant compared to the 61% CAGR average for emerging markets as a whole. And yet Latin America is still a relatively small telecom services market. Despite advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), there are large discrepancies between countries – some with modernized and liberal telecom networks, and others with closed and politicized systems in place. If you’re a prospective sourcing client, those discrepancies can make or break your operation.
To clear the air, we decided to leverage some expert opinion and develop our 2010 Ranking of the Top Five Telecom-Ready Sourcing Destinations in Latin America.
Exclusive: Genpact Expands in Guatemala City
July 19th, 2010Brazil and Colombia Also On Genpact’s Radar
Confident that the right kind of finance and accounting talent can be found to support its growth, Genpact is pushing forward with plans to expand its operations in Guatemala City. The company currently employs about 1,000 people but that number will likely climb dramatically with the expansion.
Is Bogota Real Estate too Expensive? We Get to the Bottom of It
June 23rd, 2010By Tarun George
Long perceived as a risky sourcing destination, Colombia has in recent years largely shed that stigma and transformed itself into one of the best business locations in Latin America. Ranking highest on the World Bank’s 2010 Doing Business Report, Bogotá is a forward-thinking city with a focus on IT. But now it seems that a new stereotype about the Colombian capital is taking root. Reports are that real estate prices in the city have been rising, and buy-side companies are concerned. Are the rumors true? To get the story, we spoke with real estate analysts, private vendors on the ground, and the city’s promo agency Invest in Bogotá.
Compartimos con ustedes las declaraciones del Presidente de la Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia
June 21st, 2010Compartimos con ustedes las declaraciones del Presidente de la Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia –ANDI- Luis Carlos Villegas Echeverri, a propósito del triunfo del candidato del Partido de la U, Juan Manuel Santos quien fue elegido ayer como nuevo presidente de los colombianos:
“Yo creo que es una muy buena noticia, una noticia que nos posiciona como un Estado democrático en primer lugar, quien lo podría dudar, y segundo como una sociedad madura que ha decidido un horizonte en cuanto a las grandes líneas de gobierno que ya está en los linderos del largo plazo y eso en América Latina no es una situación corriente.
A mí me parece que el mandato que recibe el doctor Santos en cantidad, con la votación más grande de que se tenga record histórico en Colombia para un Presidente de la República y en calidad, en el sentido de que fue un mandato que tomó …
Uribe’s Chosen Candidate Secures Big Victory in Colombia
June 20th, 2010A former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels won Colombia’s presidency Sunday, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.
The victory for Juan Manuel Santos, a 58-year-old economist and three-time government minister, was a ringing endorsement of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe, whose U.S.-backed security policies he helped craft and promised to continue.
In his victory speech before a crowd of 10,000 in a Bogota coliseum preceded by a traditional music and dance troupe, Santos lionized Uribe.
”If we have come so far it’s because we have been standing on the shoulders of giants,” he said, calling Uribe ”an exceptional person who transformed our country.”
With nearly all polling stations reporting, Santos had 69 percent of the vote against 28 percent for former two-time Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. It was largest margin of victory in a presidential vote in modern Colombian history, …
Colombia IT Outsourcing: Heavy Dose of Long Term Thinking
June 14th, 2010
By Kirk Laughlin
If you’re looking for a sound perspective on the developing IT Services market of Colombia, Yolanda Auza, the General Manager for Unisys in Latin America, is a great resource to turn to.
We checked in with Auza recently to talk about Colombia’s climb to respectability, the educational transformation within the country and the government’s role as a catalyst for change.
Ranking the Six Leading IT Cities for Skilled Human Capital – Monterrey Rates Number One
May 12th, 2010By Tarun George
As Latin America moves away from call center work into higher-end value added services, it’s increasingly difficult to train workers for complex IT positions. Buy-side companies prefer instead to go where the most talent is, and LATAM governments are catching on. With each country promoting itself as having the most qualified labor pool, it’s often hard to know before you get on the ground which locations can meet your skilled labor needs, and which ones simply won’t pan out. We at Nearshore Americas decided to make things clearer by publishing our own ranking of the top Latin American cities for technical training and most available IT workforce.
The Colombia Connection: Corbett, Vashistha, Santos and Pinzon (left to right) engage with an overflow crowd at the IAOP Colombia chapter launch last week.
By Kirk Laughlin
We are seeing more evidence that the BPO sector of Colombia is sizzling right now – based in part on the sustained interest of global sourcing player investing in the country as well as a very strong start for the newly created IAOP chapter, which held its first conferences last week in Bogota and Barranquilla.
The event in Bogota drew an overflow crowd of approximately 120 people from the outsourcing/ BPO sector, academia, press and advisers, said Santiago Pinzon, Co-chair of the new Colombia IAOP chapter and Executive Director, Chamber of BPO &IT – ANDI. Pinzon said guest speakers – including IAOP chairman Michael Corbett, Julia Santos, Director- Worldwide Strategic Outsourcing Johnson & Johnson Group and Atul Vashistha, Chairman of NeoAdvisory stimulated great dialogue. “All topics drew great engagement - including trends on outsourcing, Colombia’s case studies and competitiveness and also interest in better understanding what multinationals look for when they are evaluating outsourcing destinations,” said Pinzon.
Colombia Wants To Get Closer To Asia
May 6th, 2010By Frederik Balfour
May 6 (Bloomberg) — Colombia, blocked from signing a free- trade deal with the U.S., must focus on building economic and political relationships with Asian countries to secure its future, Vice President Francisco Santos said.
“I think Colombia should really shift most of its economic and diplomatic bureaucracy towards India, China, Singapore and Indonesia,” the outgoing vice president said yesterday in an interview in Hong Kong. Countries without a presence in the region are going to “miss the bus,” he said.
Santos spoke after visiting India and China, where he sought to lure investors deterred by the country’s reputation for drug-related violence and kidnappings. Colombia is seeking to bolster trade relations after a 2006 agreement with the U.S. remains stalled in Congress.
The U.S. House rejected a request for action by President George W. Bush on the …
