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Ready to strut your stuff at #NasscomBPM this week?
Find out what's making Chandra, Vishal, Tiger and TK strut their stuff in Bangalore this week...Read More
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#Crazymergerideas – Infopact or Genosys?
What if Infosys and Genpact got a little more intimate with each other...Read More
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Losing the war for talent: Why offshore providers come up short onshore
The need to hire and develop quality onshore account management and delivery personnel is becoming the crucial differentiator in today's ever-tightening outsourcing marketplace. Those that can win this talent war will be the ones who can truly move beyond yesterday's flagging outsourcing model.Read More
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Time for HP to shephurd its BPO business
When Mark Hurd took up the reins as HP's boss back in 2005, the company badly needed him to stabilize the business, drive up the stock price, and add discipline and cost-control into many of its global operations. And whatever the reason for his demise (quite frankly, he's not Tiger Woods, so who cares?), he's done what HP needed him to do - and this is a good time to put someone else at the helm who can start closing the gap with IBM and others. In fact, he should have gone sooner, because there's a lot of ground to be made up right across the board. One of those is a flagging BPO business that had outperformed anyone's expectations before the EDS merger threw it into a confused shambles.Read More
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Concentrix doubles down on Webhelp to dominate traditional call center… despite autonomous CX changing the narrative
With Concentrix's mammoth acquisition of Webhelp, has the $125 billion world of call centers really become so dull that the only thing left to talk about is who’s the biggest? Traditional call center services are extremely ripe for disruption, with huge costs to be saved with the smart deployment of autonomous technologies. There are ample opportunities for tech-capable service providers to attack the CX space with digital offerings that are not dependent on voice-based butts-on-seats. So where's the real value in this 'traditional' acquisition for Concentrrix?Read More
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There’s no FTE hell with Chris Caldwell
Phil Fersht interviews Concentrix President Chris CaldwellRead More
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Concentrix gets up close and personal with Teleperformance with its Convergys acquisition
Just a couple of weeks after Teleperformance splashed $1 billion in Intelent we finally see Convergys gobbled upRead More
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The Buy Family thunders home yet again!
Aside from air strikes, ash clouds, oil leaks and Sarah Palin's previous plea to "drill baby drill", global media attention was briefly diverted, last week, to Edinburgh as some of BPO's top buyers and providers bravely duked it out the SSON's European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week.Read More