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🎯 Project Management: Make Things Happen for Real

Owners, dependencies, and preproduction before production change day

Years ago, during a conversation with one of my directors at VTR, I received advice that stayed with me. “You have to make things happen.” At the time it seemed like a simple phrase. Even obvious. Over the years I understood that it probably sums up much of what managing complex projects reall...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on June 10, 2026

🛠️ When Jira Is Not Enough: How I Built My Own AI Planning System

The real bottleneck in telco operations is not execution. It is knowing what comes first.

The last months of the year have a particular rhythm in telecommunications. And this year more than ever. When the FIFA World Cup is on the calendar, the whole sector knows there is a date that does not move: before it starts, everything has to be in production. What does not make it on time ...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on June 2, 2026

🌐 AI & Telecom Trends – May 2026: Five Signals Worth Keeping on Your Radar

Chilean startups with real traction, Claude on Wall Street, network traffic that no longer follows the human model, 5G without monetization, and a security risk nobody budgeted for.

May has been eventful. Chilean startups with real traction, Claude moving into Wall Street in ways ChatGPT still cannot replicate, and a couple of infrastructure and security signals the market is not discussing enough. Here are five things worth keeping on your radar this week — especially ...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 26, 2026

🔇 The Silent Crisis in Telecommunications: Networks More Critical Than Ever, but an Industry Under Growing Pressure (2026)

The work didn't disappear. What disappeared was the margin.

There was a time when working in telecommunications meant being inside an industry that seemed to grow almost naturally. More customers. More coverage. More rollouts. More investment. More projects. Today the feeling is different. And I am not talking only about Chile. In conversations wit...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 15, 2026

📡 From VTR Chile to the team in Europe: two sides of the same model

Local and offshore teams, Liberty Global, outsourcing, and telecom in Chile: a view from both sides of the same call.

It is ten in the morning in the Netherlands. A biweekly sync with one market just ended — calendar for the next two weeks, blockers, what they need from us, what we learned in another country that might help them. Thirty minutes later the next one starts, with another market. This one is bigge...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 6, 2026

🏗️ AI and datacenters: the new infrastructure boom transforming Latin America

Capital, permits, lead times, and coordination: what happens after the contract is signed on AI infrastructure projects.

There is a kind of kickoff meeting that looks straightforward on paper. The client arrives with requirements defined, budget approved, timelines clear. It is all there, in the deck. The team nods. The minutes are signed. Six months later, that same client calls to say the specifications chang...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 4, 2026

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Consultant on complex technology projects. 15 years in telecommunications and critical infrastructure in Chile and Europe.

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Claudio Müller Pizarro

Claudio Müller Pizarro

Founder of ViaMind

Consultant on complex technology projects. 15 years in telecommunications and critical infrastructure in Chile and Europe.