Jun
11
Risk in Start-up Business
June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
Risk is always present in business. Any business ventures carry both a significant amount and diversity of risks. In many businesses and companies however, risk management is taken for granted. There is also a lack of understanding on what constitutes risk management.
In most cases, risk management is thought to be limited to just liability insurance. In reality, risk management can encompass a much broader business scope.
Jun
10
June is National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Month
June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Every month of June is celebrated as the National ICT Month of the Philippines. The month-long celebration features events and activities organized by government and the private sector.
This year’s National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Month, “A Digitally Empowered Philippines”, will be the platform for the official launch of the Philippine Digital Strategy (PDS) 2011-2016.
Jun
9
China BPO in Philippines
June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The Business Processing Association of the Philippines reports that the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines is keen on entering new markets. The BPO sector pushes into new markets such as the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific.
Because of the growth of the Asia-Pacific region, the sector is looking to capitalize on its language and communication capabilities. The biggest demand is for Korean, Japanese and Chinese Mandarin.
Jun
7
Home-Based Offshore Employees – Good or Bad Idea?
June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Over the past few months, management at my company has been discussing the recent trend of Filipino employees working from home. We have noticed a significant spike in the number of Filipinos who are now working at home either in a full-time capacity or part-time after their regular office hours.
During our interview process for new applicants, we see an ever increasing number of employees with at least some experience working from home. Since this has been a topic of discussion in our office, I thought this would make and interesting topic for OutsourcingOpinions.com.
As I was formulating my thoughts for this topic, an email notification popped up from one of the groups I belong to in LinkedIn. It said that Raffy Pekson had posted a new topic called How to Employ At-Home Agents for your Business. In this timely article, Raffy lays out key factors that should be considered when employing at-home agents. His intention is to teach people the factors that need to be considered to make this a successful venture, however in laying out his road map, he very accurately describes almost all of the pitfalls that I myself had laid out in my outline for this article. He mentions issues such as internet connectivity, culture, and maturity.
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