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Prepared to Answer

Chris Pryer, Business Writer

Customer service is a term that rolls easily off the tongue of almost every corporate mogul you hear interviewed or quoted these days. They talk about the fierce competition they face in their chosen industry and that the distinguishing factor that separates the leaders in their field from the also-rans is how they service their customers after the sale. In the remote environment of eCommerce, it can be particularly difficult to maintain a satisfying relationship between the buyer and seller, whether it’s B2C or B2B. This has spawned a whole new generation of companies that specialize in helping other companies manage interaction with their customers over the Internet. Ziptone is such a company.

Real Estate Outsourcing Focuses on Transactions, Not the Transaction

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

An Interview With Deborah Kops – Location, location, location is the number one rule of commercial real estate. For corporations worried about their bottom lines, the cardinal concern for their real estate should be process, process, process.

HR Moves to Self-Serve

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

SynHRgy HR Technologies, an HR outsourcing vendor in Houston, Texas, monitored the usage of its 500,000 participants last fall. Sixty-five percent of the enrollees used the Web or its interactive voice response (IVR) system in lieu of talking to a live representative, reports Kraig Koester, Midwest regional director for SynHRgy. He points out the outsourcing vendor’s 35 clients range from high tech companies who couldn’t live without their Palm Pilots to unionized heavy industry whose employees work with their hands not computers.

Five Tips for Vendors

George Atis, Chairman, Outsourcing and Technology practice groups, McMillan Binch LLP

George Atis provides some pointers for vendors that should go a long way towards impressing buyers and expediting the closure of a deal.

The Big Picture

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Solutions for Public and Private eMarketplaces “Major multinational companies will buy software solutions,” says James Hatcher, vice president of business development for ECNet. “But when you go to the supplier base, only 10 percent of them will buy software. So what do you do with the rest of the guys? An eMarketplace needs to scale …

Nobody Does It Better

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Quickly growing. Unlimited potential. Unpredictable. Each of these words conveys the business environment in Russia today. Global executives eye developments in the world’s largest country and speculate on each aspect of the emerging business scene.

How to Get Ready for HIPAA

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

From the moment of his 1999 signature approving two-thirds of the proposed HIPAA regulations, President Clinton tossed the healthcare industry a hot potato. So now the industry is forced to start changing the way it was doing business.

Achieving High Performance

Chris Pryer, Business Writer

Today roads, and the maintenance they require, are as important as the vehicles that traverse them. And if you’ve paid any attention to today’s news — or your daily commute to work — you are probably aware that roads, like much of America’s infrastructure, are literally going to pot. Local streets, county and state roads and highways, even the nation’s mighty interstates — they are all crumbling under the sheer weight and volume of our ultra-mobile society. State and local governments are hamstrung with the challenge of meeting other fiscal responsibilities (mainly social services) that have greater priority, as well as funding much-needed street and road maintenance and expansion. These projects take a lot of time — and money. To save both, governments are looking to the private sector to do the job of maintaining streets and roads.

Negotiating the Best Deal For Your Outsourcing Buck

George Atis, Chairman, Outsourcing and Technology practice groups, McMillan Binch LLP

For a company considering an outsourcing transaction – IT or business process outsourcing (BPO) – there are ways to improve the chances of getting the best deal for your outsourcing buck.

Preparing for an RFP

Dr. Wendell Jones

This article summarizes some of the key considerations in the next phase. The goals of this phase are to develop a detailed analysis so you can determine the current costs for the function you are planning to outsource, analyze the risks, and prepare an RFP.

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Real Estate Outsourcing Focuses on Transactions, Not the Transaction

HR Moves to Self-Serve

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