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		<title>They are lazy, time-consuming and cost a lot of money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are lazy, time-consuming, cost a lot of money and their name is: MEETINGS. Many of them are not necessary, many do not bring any substantial results. It is estimated that an average organisation wastes up to 20%(!) of their payroll on bad meetings. What can be done against it?]]></description>
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		<title>Main IT outsourcing trends in CEE region – and much, much more at no cost…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the main development trends on IT outsourcing services market? How about the main outsourcing drivers in the near future?]]></description>
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		<title>IT-BPO provider? – Try to be as Germanic as possible!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be successful as an outsourcing service provider you should put yourself in your client’s shoes. If you provide your services to other geographical destinations, try to consider their specialities as language, culture, the way of doing business and other local factors. And if you want to do business with Austrian, German or Swiss customers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why shared services? &#8211; Because we need a common language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of shared services is quite simple: they are expected to serve several entities belonging to a corporation and to provide cost savings and qualitative benefits. That requires a high level of standardization and harmonization, which actually means – a common global language (not just in a linguistic sense). Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shared services and BPO: How to achieve optimum in real time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When have you personally visited your bank for the last time? Three years ago? Or: you don’t remember it? Modern technology makes it possible: You can use different services, offered by parties located world-wide having the Internet access and telephone connection. And parties offering these services do not have to be located in your town. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for new outsourcing opportunities? – Enter Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is outsourcing just about savings in expenses? Are shared services just about labor and rental costs? In fact, much more is at stake in the global insourcing and outsourcing game… India, China and Malaysia being on the top… India and Philippines controlling about 50 percent of the global outsourcing market… India as a top BPO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Que viva España! – Shared services in the heart of Catalonia (weekend impressions)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do with burnt toast? Would you put some jam into it, scrape it or put another slice on? Gemba, muda, kaizen – what are actually these concepts about? What are the characteristics of the world-class companies? Are shared services just about cost? Working capital: How do the bigger than Canon, Disney, Intel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing: too risky… too dangerous… too expensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://outsourceportfolio.com/?p=1253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies trying to optimize their cost structure, improve quality and focus on core business make the use of outsourcing. That is correct… – to some extend Outsourcing, correctly implemented, brings advantages to its buyer (and obviously to the vendor, too). These are mainly the three ones: • Cost advantages, • Qualitative improvements, • Focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want to reduce your expenses? e-Invoicing is the solution!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are about 28 billion invoices issued in Europe each year. About half of them in B2B market segment. Using e-Invoicing makes it possible to cut costs even by 70%. Why not use this solution? e-Invoicing stands for electronic invoicing and implies electronic transfer of invoicing information (billing and payment) between business partners (i.e. seller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent outsourcing: Money is not (that) important</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magdalena Szarafin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first driving force for outsourcing is the cost aspect. However, the cost aspect should not be the only decisive factor. Both: monetary and non-monetary factors should be taken in consideration. It becomes especially clear while talking about Business Transformational Outsourcing (BTO) In today’s business, buyers expect more and more from the vendors. While outsourcing [...]]]></description>
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