In a context in which the creation of digital records is increasing, investment in data analysis, technology and personnel becomes fundamental and essential to ensure the best possible performance in companies.
Advanced Analytics (AA), which can be executed from data from digital platforms, wireless sensors and millions of mobile phones, is transforming competition across multiple sectors by generating opportunities to capture value from improved decision making and comprehensive business transformation.
Both companies announced an agreement for La Estancia, Guatemalan and Ecuadorian capital, to acquire a stake in the Panamanian company Toledano.
La Estancia, a company that will have a stake in Toledano, is a consortium born from the merger of Procesadora Nacional de Alimentos C.A. (Pronaca), headquartered in Quito, Ecuador, and Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI), in Guatemala City.
The company reported that it has transferred the entire share capital of Telefónica Celular de Nicaragua, S.A. to Millicom International Cellular, S.A., for a price of $437 million.
On May 16, Telefónica S.A. reported that "Following the communication published on February 20, 2019 (with entry registration number 274959), Telefónica announces that once the relevant regulatory approvals have been obtained, Telefónica Centroamérica Inversiones, S.L.., a company owned, directly and indirectly, 60% by Telefónica and 40% by Corporación Multi Inversiones, has today transferred the entire share capital of Telefónica Celular de Nicaragua, S.A. to Millicom International Cellular, S.A. for a price of 437 million dollars, approximately 390 million euros at the current exchange rate". Consult Telefónica's full press release.
The difficulties in identifying staff training needs and the lack of a clear relationship between new employee skills and incentives diminishes the possibility of achieving company goals.
According to the Deloitte 2019 Global Study of Human Capital Trends, in which more than 9,400 business leaders from around the world participated, including 261 from Costa Rica, the learning of business staff is the most relevant trend.
Understanding which are the main and relevant data that must be managed in a company and how to protect them in digital format is fundamental for the expansion of a company.
Representatives of Costa Rican technology companies WIC, Innovamars, ATTI Cyberlabs and Grupo Inco, agree that organizations are facing challenges arising from the digital transformations they must make to continue growing.
The company reported that it signed an agreement with Millicom S.A. for the sale of all shares of Telefonica Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, closing the transaction at $1.65 billion.
After the company reported in late January 2019 that for $648 million it had agreed to sell to America Móvil all the shares of Telefonica Guatemala and 99.3% of Telefonica El Salvador, it now announced that it had completed the sale process of the entire operation in Central America.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
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Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
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In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The company reported that it sold all the shares of Telefónica Guatemala and 99.3% of Telefónica El Salvador to América Móvil for $648 million.
The Spanish company stated that the closing of the sale of Telefónica Guatemala took place on January 24, however, the sale of Telefónica El Salvador is subject to the relevant regulatory conditions.
The Spanish company Telefónica S.A. informed that it is in a negotiation process to sell its assets in the region.
The European company, with subsidiaries in El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, explained that the sale of its assets in the region "could result in a transaction, both for the total and for some of those assets."
Estimating how much customers would pay if they bought from a competitor and defining how the product offered differs from others are some of the strategies used to help increase salesprofitability.
Ariel Banos, specialist in price management and founder of Fijaciondeprecios.com, explains how through the "umbrella strategy" companies can stop using discounts as the only selling tool.
Costa Rica and Panama are the economies of the region where businessmen find it easier to develop business, followed by El Salvador and Guatemala, and in the last two places, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The World Bank announced the results of the Doing Business 2019 report, which measures the regulations that favor or restrict the development of business activity in different countries. Doing Business consists of quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of private property rights, comparable in 190 economies.
Arguing that the law of creation of the Nicaraguan Company of Imports and Exports attempts against free market, the business sector demands to abolish the proposal.
The Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) strongly opposes the approval of the Law that aims to create the Nicaraguan Company of Imports and Exports (Enimex), which would allow the State to conduct commercial transactions.
Only a few companies are aware of the true impact of a proper strategy and price management on the profitability of the organization.
Ariel Baños, pricing specialist and founder of Fijaciondeprecios.com, explains why it is critical for organizations to control the variable with the most impact on their results, and details the five reasons for implementing a pricing area in companies:
Excessive regulation, increased tax charges and geopolitical uncertainty are the main risks to business growth in the region for Central American CEOs.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) conducted the Global CEO Survey in the Central American region, in which a group of business executives from Central American countries and the Dominican Republic shared their opinions about their economic expectations.
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