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Rafael Achaerandio
Research and Consulting Director, IDC Iberia

Rafael Achaerandio is research and consulting director at IDC. He is responsible for the execution and management of research and consulting projects in Spain and Portugal, developing new business with key accounts.

In addition to these management activities he carries out strategic studies and research, developing models, forecasts, and trends for the Spanish and Portuguese IT, Internet and media markets, and interacting and consolidating IDC's forecasts and assumptions with EMEA research teams.

Achaerandio provides top-level consulting to senior management, presenting results to board level, and is also a regular contributor of articles and comments about trends, the economy, and technology for specialized ICT papers, the financial press, and other media and broadcasters.

Before joining IDC, Achaerandio worked as a senior strategy consultant with Altran Group (Arthur D. Little and Strategy Consultants). In this post, he developed a number of international IT and telecom strategy projects. Before Altran, he worked with Interhost and Iberdrola.

Achaerandio has an MSc in telecommunications (electrical engineering MSEE) from Carlos III University in Madrid and MBA, Master in economics and business administration from IESE Business School.



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Methods and Practices: Becoming a Smart City: IDC Energy Insights Smart Cities Maturity Model
Roberta Bigliani, Gaia Gallotti, Luiza Semernya, José Curto, Rafael Achaerandio
Mar 2012 - Doc # EIRS02U      Methods and Practices
The IDC Energy Insights Smart Cities Maturity Model is the next step in the IDC Smart Cities Index, created to rank cities' "smartness" and developed by IDC Energy Insights in collaboration with IDC's local research teams (see Smart C ...
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Análisis del Mercado Español de Servicios TI 2011–2016
Rafael Achaerandio, José Curto
Feb 2012 - Doc # LS03U      Competitive Analysis
Este estudio aborda el análisis del mercado de servicios TI en España desde la perspectiva de los segmentos que componen el mercado, de los proveedores que actúan en dicho mercado y de los principales sectores de actividad en España prop ...
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