Features Latin America

If pipes burst in your building, you’d want to be insured yesterday, not tomorrow. Time is of the essence, says Martín Vera, who the past eight years has led digital transformations in the financial and insurance industries. He’s also helped generate new digital sales channels and enhanced the relationship of customers to self-service channels—think websites, […]

En la actualidad no es una novedad decir que la tecnología está cambiando la manera de hacer las cosas dentro de las grandes corporaciones. Lo que antes se veía como un lujo -que pocos podían costear- ahora es una necesidad para toda compañía que desee mejorar su producción y/o servicios, pero sobre todo mantenerse a […]

¿Qué tienen en común Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Katharine Graham, Oprah Winfrey, Ana Botín y Mark Zuckerberg? Son reconocidos en el mundo como grandes líderes y emprendedores empresariales -además de acumular una pequeña fortuna-. Todos ellos reúnen atributos como la constante búsqueda de la excelencia […]

El mundo de la tecnología parece no descansar. Cada día cientos de personas alrededor del mundo utilizan sus conocimientos y creatividad en esta materia para brindarle a la sociedad y por supuesto al entorno de los negocios un mejor servicio que se ajuste a las necesidades del cliente. Es allí donde Marvin Soto, CTO de […]

It’s not that the Florida Ice & Farm Co., or FIFCO as it’s commonly known, has not changed several times over in its long history. It began as an agricultural and ice making company, started producing beverages several years later and about 90 years after that morphed into a retailer that also owns a resort […]

Miguel Marin says the digital transformation underway at Corporación AG is not only good for the company, it’s good for Guatemala. Marin is the CIO for the Guatemala City steel producer and he says technological upgrades to the company, founded in 1953, are helping the business grow through cost savings and efficiencies. That, in turn, […]

If you attended this same music festival a few years ago, the queues for beer and food stretched for half a football field and the bathroom lines weren’t much better. The Wi-Fi was spotty at best, making it hard to communicate with your group. Even the setup of the stages seemed slipshod, with masses of […]

When two companies merge, it can take years before their operations are harmonized—and even longer before the acquiring company recoups its investment. Together with the leadership team of Diana Corporación, Martha Cecilia Eraso accomplished everything in less than four months—a feat she says wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of other company stakeholders, including […]

IT leaders rarely have colorful nicknames—but Max Cottica? They call him the Irish Spawn. He earned that moniker because (1) He lives in Ireland, and (2) He owns one of the largest collections of “Spawn” comic books in the world. Originally hailing from the north of Italy, Cottica fuses his charisma with a robust and […]