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keeping the lights on

Portuguese translation: (menos tempo) em atividades rotineiras

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English term or phrase:keeping the lights on
Portuguese translation:(menos tempo) em atividades rotineiras
Entered by: Cintia Galbo

21:12 May 31, 2015
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Computers (general) / Business, General
English term or phrase: keeping the lights on
Greater business innovation as IT staff spend less time “keeping the lights on” and more time on
innovation projects including mobile and analytics.
By enabling cost and time efficiencies, the new system helps customers better allocate budget
and staff resources. Customers are better able to focus IT on business enablement and
innovation. They dedicate less staff time to keeping the lights on even as they improve their
service levels. The survey found that companies that used to spend 78% of time and budget keeping
the lights on now spend only 46%. Looked at in another way, IT staff spend on business
enablement increased by more than 300% from 8% to 35%. These organizations
increased the percentage of their IT budget spent on new initiatives by 97%. This type of
increase aligns very well with 3rd Platform priorities.
Cintia Galbo
(menos tempo) em atividades rotineiras
Explanation:
Sugestão.
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ferreirac
Brazil
Local time: 02:33
Grading comment
Obrigada, creio que seja uma boa sugestão.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1"mantendo o status quo"
Katarina Peters
4 +1gerando receita para pagar o aluguel
airmailrpl
4"reciclando"
Diego Perez
4(menos tempo) em atividades rotineiras
ferreirac
3mantendo-se ocupados / procurando o que fazer para não ficar à toa
Mario Freitas
3(perder menos tempo) com tarefas mundanas
Beatriz Baker Méio
3"a espera de algo"
Suany Lima


Discussion entries: 6





  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"reciclando"


Explanation:
Apenas uma sugestão. O texto quer dizer que a inovação passa menos tempo mantendo o que já existe, e mais tempo lançando novas ideias.

Como foram usadas aspas no texto original, quis colocar uma metáfora semelhante.

Diego Perez
Brazil
Local time: 02:33
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mantendo-se ocupados / procurando o que fazer para não ficar à toa


Explanation:
Sugestão

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 02:33
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 141
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
"mantendo o status quo"


Explanation:
ou: mantendo a rotina

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 01:33
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Danik 2014: "mantendo a rotina"http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/cwdn/2013/08/why-keep-th...
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Danik
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(perder menos tempo) com tarefas mundanas


Explanation:
sugestão, inspirada por este artigo:
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/cwdn/2013/08/why-keep-th...

Beatriz Baker Méio
United States
Local time: 01:33
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(menos tempo) em atividades rotineiras


Explanation:
Sugestão.

ferreirac
Brazil
Local time: 02:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 117
Grading comment
Obrigada, creio que seja uma boa sugestão.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
"a espera de algo"


Explanation:
"a espera de algo"

Suany Lima
United States
Local time: 01:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
gerando receita para pagar o aluguel


Explanation:
keeping the lights on -> gerando receita para pagar o aluguel

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data shrinks - Tradução em português – Linguee
www.linguee.pt/ingles-portugues/traducao/data shrinks.html
... [pt] português <-> [ee] estónio, [pt] português <-> [mt] maltês, Mais idiomas ... maintain day-to-day business operations (keeping the lights on)


Keep The Lights On
Verb
(1). A way for members of a steady, but weak business unit to justify their continued existence to the rest of the firm.
http://www.cheesycorporatelingo.com/dictionary/keep-the-ligh...

more than half your time and resources are spent, not on innovative projects, but on "keep the lights on" activities whose sole purpose is to prevent existing systems from breaking down.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486278/it-management/h...

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 02:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 132

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rafael Sousa Brazlate
1 day 4 hrs
  -> agradeço
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