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• December 8, 2006 | Filipino Employee Raises Economic Prospects
  Never before has Philippine labor had such negotiating power. Call center recruits are now being offered signing bonuses before they start work. Employees are given bonuses for finding new recruits - more often than not poached from other call centers.
  
  
• December 6, 2006 | Asia as Offshore Outsourcing Hub
  Offshoring may have created a political storm in some countries, but operators across the region are looking to outsourcing Asian services particularly everything in the Philippines from IT and call centers to network maintenance and even network operations as they examine what their core business is.
  
  
• December 6 , 2006 | The Truths of Outsourcing
  It is inevitable that as economies and industries change, not every individual will benefit directly or immediately. This is also akin to higher-cost countries that need to look at new ways of operating more efficiently and more competitively in a global economy.
  
• November 30, 2006 | Philippine Multi-Culture Wins Global Offshoring Industry
  Much of today’s outsourcing focuses on commodity products and services, where the cost disparity can determine whether a company makes a profit or incurs a loss. When it comes to the outsourcing of higher value added services and products, the process often becomes very complex.
  
  
• November 30, 2006 | Philippine Labor Costs One-Fifth Lower
  Why outsource business processes?  What are the benefits to the economies that outsource them? Leading economic experts agree that the true benefits of outsourcing could eventually be a global upgrading of jobs to the more technologically-advanced.
  
  
• November 8, 2006 | The Proliferation of Call Centers in the Philippines
  Many large businesses are realizing the potential of outsourcing to low-cost countries such as the Philippines and moving their offices to the Philippines.
  
  
• November 8, 2006 | The Filipino Optimism in BPO
  With the rise of the Internet, there has been a significant shift in the business model that allows companies to place staff in the lowest-cost locations. This business is now starting to come to Asia as more and more jobs have the potential to be performed remotely.
  
  
• November 6, 2006 | The Required Rigidity of Recruitment
  Outsourcing only works when the right people are properly managed. In traditional forms of outsourcing, as soon as a contract is signed outsourcing companies inevitably seek out the most profitable way of doing business, looking out for their own best interest with their own people.
  
  
• November 6, 2006 | Relocation: Success overrides Unfounded Risks
  Relocating business processes in the Philippines is a strategy where it makes most business sense, by capitalising on the global skill pool, advances in communication technologies and the benefits of cost arbitrage.
  
  
• November 2, 2006 | In Demand Staff Leasing Worldwide
  Staff Leasing—whose business has been built on the solid concept of "Mind Your Own Business"—has become one of the area’s growth companies because it practices what it preaches.
  
  
• November 2, 2006 | How Body Shopping Works to Your Advantage
  Body shopping refers to the delegation of non-core operations from internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation.
  
  
• October 31, 2006 | The Philippines' Steep BPO Development
  As competition increases, cutting costs is no longer the only reason why companies outsource. Offshore outsourcing is a strategic shift to a business model that is driven by the high quality of work that can be delivered through a diverse human capital available in an increasing number of countries.
  
  
• October 31, 2006 | Why Outsource in the Philippines
  Cross-border business process outsourcing is an emerging field in which the Philippines has moved forward aggressively.
  
  
• October 27, 2006 | Media Management in the Philippines
  The media plays a very important role in most community, public policy, national, international conflicts, especially entertainment. Depending on the nature and the amount of media coverage, the situation can be made better or worse.
  
  
• October 27, 2006 | Philippine IT Industry in the Global Market
  Without a doubt, cheap overseas labor is one of the hottest commodities around; hence, the proliferation of outsourcing IT services in the Philippines.
  
  
• October 26, 2006 | Global Competition Motivates Filipino Competency
  While companies began to focus on knowledge management and employees morphed into knowledge workers, we now live in the knowledge economy
  
  
• October 26, 2006 | Offshoring Ends Philippine Employment Dry Spell
  Knowledge and talent or intangible wealth or assets is now more valuable than tangible assets such as land, factories, equipment and energy.
  
  
• October 24, 2006 | Why Invest in the Philippines?
  The Internet is big and growing. In the United States there are an estimated 50 million users and in the rest of the world approximately 10 million.
  
  
• October 24, 2006 | The Development of the Animation Industry
  Since the beginnings of time, human beings have tried to capture a sense of motion in their art. From the eight-legged boar in the Altamira caves of Northern Spain to paintings alongside the remains of long-dead pharaohs...
  
  
• October 23, 2006 | Philippine Curricula include American Literature
  When historians look through history, they look at many different aspects of it including literature, whether it’s Native American tales or Ben Franklin's journal.
  
  
• October 23, 2006 | Programming Skills: A Prerequisite to the Modern Artist
  In the practice of making computer-based art, literature, poetry, drama, etc., is the question of artists as, or needing to be, programmers. How can artists learn to be programmers?
  
  
• October 20, 2006 | BPO Status in the Philippines
  Economic evolution is inevitable. Companies will always pursue the lowest-cost structure, which means less skilled work will move out of the U.S. to emerging economies.
  
  
• October 9, 2006 | A Word from a Call Center Representative: BPO Uplifts Many Lives
  In recent years, call center outsourcing services in the Philippines has become the offshore destination of choice, specializing in customer support services.
  
  
• October 9, 2006 | Brain Drain Effectively Reversed
  Since the early seventies, the Philippines has been experiencing a “brain drain” phenomenon with the migration of highly skilled professionals from the country.
  
  
• October 6, 2006 | Ticket to Future Prosperity
  The Philippines does have good reason for its optimism in using American English as a passport to better times. American English remains lingua franca of business and high level government...
  
  
• October 6, 2006 | Philippine Contemporary Art
  A country's past history dictates its culture and tradition. This tradition is presented in its arts through music, dance, literature, architecture, fine arts, print, weaving, dress, cuisine, beliefs...
  
  
• September 22, 2006 | Global Trade Traffic Centers Manila
  Regarded as the Philippines’ emerging sunshine industry, a promising visual forecast of the business process outsource
  e- hub in Manila can be that it is “a rising sizeable infrastructure”...
  
  
• September 22, 2006 | The Filipino Corporate Culture
  Corporate culture is the socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, institutions and all other products of human work and thought characteristics of a corporation...
  
  
• September 21, 2006 | Customer as a Competitive Tool
  The US government’s customer service revolution started in 1993 with a recommendation from VP Gore’s National Performance Review team...
  
  
• September 21, 2006 | GLOBALIZATION: Defying National Barriers For Economic Prosperity
  Low labor cost, increasing competition, globalization, increased IP (Internet Protocol) adoption, and improved network infrastructure is driving the business process outsourcing market...
  
  
• September 20, 2006 | The Ingenuity of Outsourcing
  Outsourcing is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity that specializes in that operation...
  
  
• September 20, 2006 | The Government's Efforts to Transform the Philippines' BPO Hub of Asia
  Business process outsourcing is regarded as one of the fastest growing industries in the world...

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