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Executive Company Profile: HP’s BPO Division

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Assessing the Key Service Providers in the Insurance BPO industry

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Assessing the Insurance BPO Market Landscape in 2012

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When employing foreign personnel, buyers and service providers need to ensure that foreign personnel who work on-site at buyer locations in the U.S. have the

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Executive Company Profile: Genpact

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This document introduces the Provider Capability Blueprint, our methodology to evaluate service provider marketplaces.

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The “IT-ization of Consumers”: What We Can Learn From Box

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In June of this year, several sourcing heavyweights gathered for an informative and lively hour-long debate about the future of business process outsourcing. by

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In a blog post, Twitter signaled it has made significant changes to its API that have the potential to considerably harm and diminish the function of clients

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