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The Philippine Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry brings to mind a familiar picture – agents, awake at three o’clock in the morning, doing anything from checking up on a client’s hospital records, to troubleshooting their laptops. One usually imagines this as a voice service – making or receiving calls from predominantly overseas clients. The billion-dollar industry rests on the...
The holiday season is here and the smell of Christmas air clings as early as now. But with the holidays come the rush of parties, shopping and, of course, the perennial traffic. This is especially difficult for people who work longer hours or are on night shifts. For instance, for BPO professionals, the struggle of Christmas is very real. These...
Companies are struggling to find service success and the right balance of internet automation and skilled people who can manage complex service needs. There is an increasing demand for higher end experiences, which means the challenge grows for companies to deliver that balance of technology, trained staff and outsourcing of specialised functions. Customer care will change dramatically around two key...
Meet the Millennials, also known as Gen Y, Next Gen, Echo Boomers, the Baby-On-board Generation, Screenagers, Facebookers and many more. Whatever you choose to call them, they are nearly 98 million young adults born between 1980 and 2001 who have already joined or are preparing to join the workforce. By all accounts, Millennials are unlike preceding generations. They view the world differently and...
Businesses find it an extremely challenging task to learn about how their customers and target audience feel about their offerings. Business experts believe that it is entirely impossible for an organization to please all its customers all the time. However, even if you are comfortable with the fact that you have been unable to please each of your customers every...
THINGS ARE looking up for the local business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. Early last month, the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) announced that about a hundred foreign companies were in talks with Philippine call centers as they look to outsource some of their operations here. Among them are financial giants Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Mitsubishi UFG Financial...
Healthcare information management outsourcing is becoming a lucrative business in the Philippines. In 2015, the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) lauded the BPO industry and various players engaged in healthcare information management outsourcing. A few healthcare outsourcing services that the Philippine BPO industry offers are Medical Billing, Medical Coding, Medical Claims...
On Sept. 27-29, 2016, The Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) hosted the 11th International Contact Center Conference and Expo (ICCCE) at the grand ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, Resorts Drive in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The ICCCE is the premiere, largest, and most insightful learning, networking, and trade platform of the Philippine contact center industry. It gathers...
Each year the number of reported corporate data breaches goes up. In 2015 alone the U.S. saw a 38 percent increase in data loss due to cybercrime and malware. Fortunately for businesses, data security has continued to advance as well, bringing with it an arsenal of tools to ensure proprietary information remains secure. In this modern day and age, most businesses...
VISAYA Visaya Knowledge Process Outsourcing Corporation is creating a buzzword in the BPO space. Butch Valenzuela, a Filipino-American who led a successful career in California chose to come to where he found a new calling: To create more jobs for Filipinos.From a branding perspective, this positioning could be just a marketing strategy, but to Butch, it is a mission....