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BPO Conference 2009: Conference Rationale
As the financial tsunami hits worldwide markets, banks & financial services organizations are reeling from the effects as are other business sectors. [...]
It’s all about cutting costs. Big companies want to downsize and reduce costs by outsourcing departments. Midsized companies usually don’t have the budgets to hire, hence they are always on the lookout for people they can contract out assignments or projects to. The reasons why companies want to outsource are fairly straightforward. But [...]
Pakistan has all the fundamentals in place to emerge as one of the leading global IT destinations. These include our cost advantage over other leading countries, including India and China, as well as the presence of a large pool of local IT resources. As the sixth most populous country in the world, with some of [...]
I worked for several technology companies across several countries for 10 years before coming to Pakistan. What struck me the most upon my return was the incredible buzz and energy in the local public and private ICT sector.
i worked for a plethora of technology companies across several countries for 10 years before coming to Pakistan. What struck me the most upon my return was the incredible buzz and energy in the local public and private ICT sector. Hundreds of ICT and ICT-enabled companies, predominantly Call Centers in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad were [...]
What role does cost play in the decision to choose one strategy over the other?
Here’s the situation so far: there is a global economic crisis for which companies need to cut costs; the US elections are taking place later this month, which will help to determine a formal stance of US companies on outsourcing [...]
To say the least, IP services have taken the potential of communications to a whole different level. The GSM phones are being replaced with the IP phones – in fact, IP itself is merging with several other technologies making possible the provision of better services. In an economy such as Pakistan which is pitching a [...]
Here’s the situation: it’s the year 2000 and Azhar Hameed started up a young company called Etilize, put its signboard on the wall and opens its doors for business. Sajid Hamid soon opened the company’s Karachi office and a short while after that, they were almost bankrupt. Today, Etilize is worth more than a billion [...]
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