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Western companies show unwillingness to offshore contact centre operations
There has been a marked decrease in the number of companies establishing overseas contact centres in 2011, largely owing to customer dissatisfaction with such centres.
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Trouble abroad: companies cut costs of overseas staff deployments
Sending staff overseas for long periods involves costs and challenges. This is expected to continue to expand, but in these austere times, firms are cutting the length of deployments and benefits offered
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IPAs must develop new dimensions to their strategies
As their numbers continue to increase, investment promotion agencies across the globe are seeking new and ever more complex strategies, incorporating social media, competitive intelligence and location branding, in a bid to secure new investments in their countries.
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Reassessing customer service
Changes in the global economy are affecting organisations' decisions relating to outsourcing customer services, says Wendy Atkins, who highlights emerging trends in the sector
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SEC streamlines accounting rules
Global accounting processes for US companies making international investments are to be streamlined due to a proposal by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to switch to international accounting rules.
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Services: the new frontier
Today, some 60% of the world FDI stock is in the services sector, in both developed and developing countries. The share of this sector in FDI flows is slightly higher. This is not surprising, as it reflects the sectoral structure of home and host countries: in developed countries, the services sector accounts for about two-thirds of GDP, in developing ones for more than half.
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