From Argentina to AI: Lessons in Smart Scaling with Dennis Bruce

Show Notes:

In this episode, Heather Parsons and Dennis Bruce dive into the realities of entrepreneurship, exploring the common challenges small businesses face with cash flow, team development, and scaling. They talk about the importance of cultural adaptability, the growing role of AI in software development, and why strong change management practices are essential.

Dennis shares lessons from his time in Argentina, underscoring the value of growing a business slowly and intentionally. He also highlights how AI tools can drive efficiency and support smarter operations.

Together, Heather and Dennis discuss how the software development landscape is shifting, especially with AI boosting team productivity. They touch on the advantages of using nearshore resources for stronger communication and cultural alignment, and they stress the importance of tracking key metrics to support sound decision-making and long-term growth.

Dennis is an internationally experienced technology executive with a proven history assisting technology and tech-enabled companies undergoing transformations such as start-ups, privatizations, turn-arounds, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion. Dennis has extensive international experience having lived for nearly 20 years Europe and South America, and continues to be very active in the global technology sector. He has been a trusted business and technology advisor to senior executives for International companies in transportation, information technology, information management, retail, and telecommunications.  

Dennis takes a lead role in defining and implementing new strategies in IT and in the development, retraining, and reorganization of the workforce to meet the post-transformation realities in the Tangonet’s client companies and organizations who have undergone lengthy and disruptive transformation efforts.  Dennis has led efforts to acquire and implement over $100 million in technology infrastructure and services throughout his career. 

Currently, Dennis is CEO of Tangonet Solutions, a company based in the US and Argentina that builds and allocates highly experienced technology teams based in Argentina to their North American based clients. Since 2007, Tangonet has been providing innovative, flexible, and scalable technology teams which allows clients to build solutions and scale rapidly to effectively address organizational growth goals and objectives.

 

To connect with our guest, click on the links below:

http://www.tangonetsolutions.com/

https://tangonetsolutions.com/nearshore-tech-team-blog/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisbrucetechgrowth/

 

Connect with me:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-parsons-cfo/

 

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