Contact IDC Help Shopping Cart Edit Your Profile
Search
 
Home Research Products & Services IDC Events IDC Analysts IDC Analysts About IDC My IDC
 
Analyst Profile Detailed
dotted lines
Analyst Photo
Vladimír Kroa
Research Director, IT and Business Services and Solutions, IDC CEMA

Team: Consulting Services
Content Technologies
Corporate Learning and IT Education
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Global Sourcing/Offshore
Human Resource Management
Integration
Outsourcing
Software as a Service
Worldwide Services Contracts Analysis
With IDC CEMA since 2001, Vladimir Kroa leads IDC's IT and business services and solutions program in Central & Eastern Europe and Middle East/Africa. As Program Director, he is responsible for the direction and development of the program, covering the complete range of IT services from support services, system integration, outsourcing services (including offshore services) to business services and solutions. Mr. Kroa has been involved in numerous projects ranging from market forecast and analysis studies of the CEE and MEA IT services markets to strategic consulting projects such as market entry, competitive and comparative analysis, IT skills and end-user studies. He has also participated in local and international projects, assessing the impact of new services development and attending clients' internal training sessions and conferences.

Before accepting the position at IDC CEMA in Prague, Mr. Kroa was a part of IDC's Worldwide Services program in Framingham, Massachusetts. Prior to joining IDC, he was an equity analyst at Trillium Asset Management in Boston, where he conducted financial, strategic, and social research, and wrote equity briefs. Mr. Kroa was also a Project Scientist at Roy F.Weston, Inc., a consulting and engineering firm in Boston.

Mr. Kroa holds an M.A. in International Business and Development Economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the US, and an engineering degree from the Czech University of Agriculture. He also studied one semester at the Harvard Business School.



Analyst Research more

Worldwide and U.S. Offshore IT Services 2008–2012 Forecast
David Tapper, Marianne Kolding, Nigel Wallis, Christopher Real, Vladimír Kroa, Philip Carter
Sep 2008 - Doc # 214087      Market Analysis
This IDC study answers the following questions::
  • How is the model of offshore evolving?
  • What is the opportunity for offshore providers by geographic region?
  • ...
    purchase document
IDC's Global Hosting Taxonomy, 2008
Rona Shuchat, Melanie Posey, Nigel Wallis, Marianne Kolding, Vladimír Kroa, Satoshi Matsumoto, Christopher Real, David Tapper, Robert P. Mahowald, Alejandra Gabriela Mendoza, David Bradshaw, Philip Carter
Aug 2008 - Doc # 213656      Industry Development and Models
This IDC study provides the first consolidated view of IDC's global hosting services taxonomy, extending from colocation and Web hosting through single-tenancy hosted AM and on to multitenant infrastructure and application offe ...
purchase document