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<title>Offshoring, what you can do to decrease the chances of failure</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=179</link>
<description><b>Offshoring</b> is the most luring method for reduce cost of company operations but the move is risky because of cultural barriers, which can put customers off. It wouldn't take you too long with a 
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<title>Incentive and Perk really do magic while motivating a team</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=178</link>
<description><b>Is it all about the money </b>

Yes, reward is about the financial element - but encompasses more than just cash 
Then recognition is about staff knowing that they are doing a good job and feel
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<title>North America Contact Center Market Grows Like Never Before</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=177</link>
<description>The North American contact center outsourcing market will see revenues reaching $27.5 billion in 2013, up from $20.7 billion in 2006, according to a recent report from market research firm Front  Sul
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<title>Tips to stop attrition in Call Centers</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=176</link>
<description>According to Dimension Datas Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report 2007#8243, a massive 70% of the cost of running contact centres is related to the people who work there: the agents or custom
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<title>Role of information technology in BPO, suspecious, important or IT is usless in BPO?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=175</link>
<description>Although an increasing number of business process outsourcing (BPO) decision makers understand the critical role Information Technology (IT) plays in BPO success, many continue to struggle to determin
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<title>Seven ways to improve the customer experience: Gartner suggests</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=174</link>
<description>Increasingly, companies are turning to customer experience initiatives to boost the bottom line, but it's an effort that requires cooperation across the organization and extends beyond just CRM, resea
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<title>Vietnam is also hungry for call centre pie</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=173</link>
<description>Apparently Vietnam wants to take on India and China in the battle for our outsourcing dollars...
Vietnam, is on a big push to establish itself as a credible alternative for offshore and outsourced se
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<title>Getting staff buy-in for great customer experience </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=172</link>
<description>Typically call centres focus on engaging with their customers. Indeed, some are so focused on customers that they dont actually think about engaging with their staff. 

Yet, as Jo Thomson finds out
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<title>Publishing BPO: Good times waiting .. . . . </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=171</link>
<description>The Indian publishing <b>BPO</b> industry is expected to grow at an estimated rate of 35 per cent per annum and become a $1.46 billion industry by 2010, Puducherry CII Vice Chairman Sriram Subramanya 
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<title>Sri Lanka, also looking forward to offshore outsourcing business</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=170</link>
<description>Sri Lanka is also influenced by India and China's growth and prosperity of offhshore outsourcing, BPO and ITeS industry. But to acheive this ambitiuos dream some strong steps and changes has to be don
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<title>Indian tech booming with a healthy spring in its step</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=169</link>
<description>The Indian tech industry is expected to generate around $64bn in revenues in 2008 - a 33 per cent growth - while also having a significant impact on the country's economy. Services and software export
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<title>Revive at Work, could massage be the answer to call centre stress</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=168</link>
<description>A south Wales company is leading the way in reducing stress in the call centre and boosting staff morale by providing bespoke on-site massage treatments. The most popular treatments on offer are upper
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<title>India's BPO revenues to touch Rs 8500cr (8.5 bn).</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=167</link>
<description>Domestic <b>call centre</b> revenues will touch Rs 8,500 crore (Rs 85 billion) in the current financial year, according to a CyberMedia's Dataquest domestic call centre survey 2007-08. According to th
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<title>Actuarial Processes Outsourcing, new business dimension from US and UK services mart</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=166</link>
<description><b>Business process outsourcing</b> companies such as Infosys BPO, Patni's BPO arm, EXL Services and Genpact are increasing their focus on providing high-end actuarial services to insurers in the US a
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<title>KPO sector will be worth $5 bn by 2010</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=165</link>
<description>Financial services <b>knowledge process outsourcing</b> industry is expected to be worth $5 billion by 2010, a study by KPMG said. According to KPMG, the <b>KPO</b> phenomenon will have far reaching c
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<title>Customer support without walls</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=164</link>
<description>An increasing global customer base is driving companies to provide "follow-the-sun" customer support services. In order to enable this level of support, agents are now being located in any part of the
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<title>Bangladesh is also want his share of pie from multi billion Call Centre industry</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=163</link>
<description>Bangladesh is also planning to have first of its own telephone based call center in country. The ministry and the corporate figures of country is amazed by the growth and the wealth generated by its n
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<title>Top Tips for Induction Programmes</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=162</link>
<description>How did you feel on your first day of your new job  We all know that the induction process is critical to welcoming new starters and getting them effective as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Ye
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<title>How do I - handle stress in my team?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=161</link>
<description>Call centres are known to be high-pressure environments and stress is a common problem. However, this doesnt mean you can turn a blind eye. Stress costs businesses millions every year. It has been id
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<title>Get Maximum out of VoIP used in Call Center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=160</link>
<description>Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has recently become more common in corporations large and small. By combining separate voice and data transmissions onto the same line, this new communications opti
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<title>Domestic IT-Call Center, BPO sector is more stable then global</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=159</link>
<description>IT-BPO firms, looking at servicing the domestic BPO market, have one more reason to do so. Domestic BPO clients have a higher acceptance of integrated IT-BPO deals, meaning they are more likely to out
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<title>New US lending laws may bring business for BPOs</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=158</link>
<description>The new lending laws being worked out in the US after the subprime lending crisis could bring more business to Indian BPOs. According to a latest report by Cisco senior vice-president (IT services-Ind
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<title>Legal outsourcing to India a reality: Report</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=157</link>
<description>Having questioned quality quotient of legal jobs outsourced from India for long, the American law society is now accepting it as a "reality" with even Fortune 500 firms opening up to the idea.
 
The
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<title>Indian BPO industry eyes $50 billion revenue</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=156</link>
<description>The Indian BPO industry has set an aspirational target of touching $50 billion in revenue by 2012. This would be a five-fold growth over the next five years. The sector will also see an addition of 2 
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<title>Will online banking make call centres obsolete?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=155</link>
<description>Many banks in Britain increasingly use call centres for advising their customers: but with mixed success in the eyes of their customers.
 
In a recent Maritz Research poll, eight out of ten surveyed
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<title>Telemarketing Basics Can Lead to Call Center Success</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=154</link>
<description>While call centers have evolved into multi-channel contact centers with various initiatives and technologies, telemarketing is still a basic concept within many of these centers. For those conducting 
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<title>New Year, new motivation strategy</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=153</link>
<description>How should you motivate call centre staff at what can be one of the most miserable times of the year  
Martin Brinklow offers up a few tips.

Employee motivation is key to any business, but none mo
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<title>IT-BPO firms take KPO route to raise profits</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=152</link>
<description>Leading business process outsourcing outfits such as Infosys BPO, Zensar, TCS, Patni are fast growing their knowledge process outsourcing business in a bid to get a slice of the KPO pie that is expect
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<title>BPOs talk local for expansion </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=151</link>
<description>After establishing their position as the leader in the global BPO (business process outsourcing) arena, Indian ITeS (IT-enabled services) firms are now eyeing their own backyard to expand businesses. 
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<title>Humour: How to properly place employees</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=150</link>
<description>1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door. 
3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Then analyse the situation: as follows 


If they a
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<title>IT services to cross Rs 1 Lakh Crore revenue in '08</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=149</link>
<description>The Indian IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) market would cross Rs 1 lakh crore in revenue in 2008, while telecom will see fixed-line broadband gain around this year, according to forecasts by analyst
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<title>Want More from Call Center Agent, Upgrading the Agents Role:</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=148</link>
<description>One of the critical differentiators for managing the customer experience in the current economy is how well your center can leverage your frontline agents and their core skills.

In the past few yea
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<title>Whats in 2008 for BPO INDUSTRY?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=147</link>
<description>The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the weakening of the US Dollar have rendered several rude shocks to the outsourcing industry in 2007. Indian companies were especially hit as the Rupee appreciated by
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<title>Tech Reliance: Reliance answer to TCS, Wipro and Infosys.</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=146</link>
<description>The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) is entering the IT consulting and services space and said it is putting in place resources to rival the likes of TCS, Infosys and Wipro within a few yea
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<title>Demand for language skills grows in BPO space</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=145</link>
<description>If youre not fluent in English, but good at vernacular languages and customer skills, dont worry, we have a job for you. Riding on the growing desi market, BPOs like HTMT, Firstsource and Infovision
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<title>Training for a professional call center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=144</link>
<description>Training for a professional call center is somewhat similar to training a customer service team. You are faced with having to train employees to deal with customers and their issues, whether good or b
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<title>Software will decide is customer is in good mood or not!</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=143</link>
<description>A REPORT on nikkei.net said a firm in Japan has developed software which can tell whether people phoning into call centres are sober, slightly outraged, or simply barking mad. The Sapporo company, Dig
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<title>The Best Money-Saving Technologies of 2007</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=142</link>
<description>Here are some of the technologies that gained prominence in 2007 and that are considered to be among the best at helping companies retain their hard-earned profits.

For companies that aren't flush 
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<title>December is slack month for BPO companies</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=141</link>
<description>Achieving sales target for all those working on an outbound process in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies in the city becomes a tough task during December. With all the festivities in US and
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<title>Outsourcing Predictions for 2008 in a nutshell</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=140</link>
<description>Lets not beat around the bushheres what happening next year in the O world:

1) Offshoring panic will continue, but will force providers to innovate. Concerns over the appreciating rupee, weake
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<title>Local BPOs get a call from home</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=139</link>
<description>The Indian economy is on the upswing and mostly consumer-led. With companies across sectors like retail, real estate, telecom and BFSI going after the same customer, there is one factor which could he
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<title>Technology for year 2008 for Contact Center Industry</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=138</link>
<description>Each year we think its important to track what we believe will be the key trends driving technology deployments in the contact centre industry. 

Whats interesting for us is seeing how quickly som
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<title>Here comes the chief fun officer! </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=137</link>
<description>All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Take, for instance, the case of the business process outsourcing units. This industry not only put India firmly on the global IT map, but also generated tho
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<title>Indian IT service to step into big league</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=136</link>
<description>Indian IT service providers are ready to step into the big league now and the trust developed in India for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and ITO is allowing a rich seam of Knowledge Process Outso
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<title>Contact Center Solutions: newer version of call centers</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=135</link>
<description>Contact center is a wider term used for the call center or it can be said that it's newer name given to the call center. In modern contact centers, work is no more restricted to call handling as e-mai
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<title>Does Philippine Call Center Success Translate to BPO, Software Development, and ADM Success?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=134</link>
<description>Its no real secret that Call Centers have been taking off in the Philippines at an amazing rate. It is also well known that many companies have shifted their growth from, or are in the process of shu
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<title>BPOs listed abroad earning more then who listed in India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=133</link>
<description>Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs) listed on Indian bourses are performing better than those listed on international bourses. Nasdaq-listed ExlService Holdings and NYSE-listed Genpact and WNS have op
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<title>US legal firms cut LPO costs in India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=132</link>
<description>Leading law firms in the United States are providing lower cost legal services to their clients by outsourcing work to India and cutting their own costs by 60 per cent or more. ''Routine legal work, r
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<title>Social Networking sites causing problems for employers</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=131</link>
<description>Workers spending too much time on social networking websites such as Facebook are costing employers a staggering 130m a day according to the findings of one recent survey, and the problem looks set t
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<title>Is customers wants call centers back to US?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=130</link>
<description>The study found that customers who believed they were dealing with a call center outside the United States rated their overall satisfaction 26 points lower than those who believed the center was U.S.-
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<title>Reverse theory: Outsourcing to US is latest trend</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=129</link>
<description>You heard right by the title of this news, we always talk about the Indias stand on Outsourcing and Offshore Outsourcing as favorite destination but there are still some business domain which are cos
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<title>India to help sharpen China's BPO skills</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=128</link>
<description>Two companies from India Starting Point Competence Training Pvt Ltd and Snam, signed a MoU with Xi'an Service Outsourcing Development Association based in China for providing technical and skilled tra
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<title>Creative Staffing and Scheduling</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=127</link>
<description>Written by Susan Hash
Accurate staffing and scheduling has been a long-time challenge for contact centers. Lets face it, getting the right people in the right places at the right times doing the rig
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<title>The Next Boom in Indian Outsourcing Infrastructure Outsourcing</title>
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<description>The Next Boom in Indian Outsourcing Infrastructure Outsourcing this going to be the next big wave in outsourcing. While Indian IT companies at present are handling infrastructure outsourcing work wo
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<title>Call centre employees more dangerous than phishers </title>
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<description>Couple of years ago, the biggest security issue was phishing for JP Morgan Chase's customers. Today, the company is far more worried about the people manning its call centres. Staff has been caught st
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<title>Survey Finds Small Business BPO Stagnating</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=124</link>
<description>Outsourcing, business process outsourcing, or BPO, and the practice of looking beyond American shores to find ample arrangements, have led to the proliferation of the establishment of offshore contact
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<title>Germany (east) another destination for Call Centre </title>
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<description>The call centre industry in Germany saw a 10 times growth in last 10 years. This industry employed more then 400,000 people. The boom has been felt most in the formerly communist east, where low rents
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<title>Competition for Call Centers in Philippine</title>
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<description>The future of Call Centers in Philippine was good as the rising cost of call center operation in India (News-BPO players ramping up Philippines operations) but now Philippine Call Centers very soon fa
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<title>Another Threat to Indian Outsourcing: Rural America</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=121</link>
<description>Onshoring: Offshoring is just so pass  After years of American companies sending thousands of jobs overseas - offshoring as its come to be known, have they finally seen the light 

Have bottom-li
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<title>Smart Ways To Build Customer Loyalty</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=120</link>
<description>There is saying customer is god, customer is everything, businesses are from customers, customers not from business, if you dont care your customer then other will do. All these sayings are l
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<title>What you benefits can you expect with quality monitoring?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=119</link>
<description>Quality monitoring is all about process improvement, and in addition to the initial gains organisations achieve through deployment, theres an ongoing opportunity to secure continual incremental impro
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<title>Is BPO Losing Steam in the US?</title>
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<description>Most of the outsourced services are carried out onshore, with just an estimated 5% using offshore outsourcing operations, according to an AMI Partners report.

Midsize businesses appear to be stagna
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<title>Procurement offshoring is next big wave</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=116</link>
<description>Procurement Outsourcing is the transfer of specified key procurement activities relating to sourcing and supplier management to a third party  perhaps to reduce overall costs or maybe to tighten the 
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<title>BPO jobs no more calling only youth</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=115</link>
<description>Careers in BPOs and call centres are no longer a passionate choice for urban youth, reveals a survey conducted by ASSOCHAM. The BPO sector, which is already encountering an attrition rate of 25 to 30 
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<title>Call Centers</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=114</link>
<description>Business Process Outsourcing, a very essential part of this industry is call centers that caters to the needs of some companies for a dedicated unit that will receive and make calls, do sales, and per
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<title>3 Giants come up to fill shortage of talent pool for BPO/IT</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=113</link>
<description>To take the industry-academia partnership in education to the next level, the countrys IT majors, including Wipro, Infosys BPO and TCS, are now in talks to come together for education initiatives. So
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<title>911 service is also seeking Indian Call Centre</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=112</link>
<description>Callers to police stations could soon be talking to someone in India as forces are now allowed to privatise their call centres. Police across the country are privatising their call centres and backroo
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<title>How to Improve Your Customer Service Call Center So You Can Achieve Double-Digit Response Rates</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=111</link>
<description>Whenever a customer buys a product, they trust your company will support them after the sale. In many companies, customers are experiencing havoc customer service and translate these experiences int
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<title>A Call Center in Your Bedroom</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=110</link>
<description>Work-from-home customer service reps are a rapidly growing trend, with the number of such workers predicted to rise 375% by 2012

The trend for call centre workers to be based from home is set to in
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<title>Captive BPO centres begin to pay off</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=109</link>
<description>India has long been a favourite destination for multinational companies to set up their own offshore centres for captive use. In recent times, questions have been raised whether this model was viable 
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<title>Chennai top outsourcing hub, NCR nowhere in listing</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=108</link>
<description>Five Indian cities feature among the top 10 emerging destinations worldwide for outsourcing of IT and business processes, according to a study by investment advisory firm Tholons and Global Service Ma
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<title>INDIA is not stealing job from UK</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=107</link>
<description>For Britain, the common perception is that the country is losing jobs to India. According to major new research however, this is a myth. Many small firms are actually creating thousands of new jobs on
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<title>Choosing the best call center technology</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=106</link>
<description>Selecting effective call center technology is a matter of following a highly defined process and identifying the risks associated with each product being considered.

Many firms rush through the imp
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<title>Homeshoring: Buzzing more for popularity Customer Service Center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=105</link>
<description>Contact Center Industry has always looking for new ways and methods to increase the productivity, client satisfaction, employee benefits and satisfaction while keeping the cost as competitive to lure 
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<title>Call Centres do nothing to help the customer.</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=104</link>
<description>Call centres were invented with cost-savings, and not customers, in mind. You first listen to an automated message of how important your call is, and that it will be recorded for quality purposes. (Th
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<title>Tomorrow's Call Center: Two-Way Video Interaction</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=103</link>
<description>We've heard a lot about the "fast approaching day" when agents will be able to interact with customers via two-way video. This is a really cool idea -- and I see a wide variety of ways that video comm
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<title>Is the Customer Always Right?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=102</link>
<description>The answer to this headline is both "yes" and "no." Customers are not always right, but they are always the customers even when they're wrong. Too many practices have rigid rules and policies. How man
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<title>India star of region's performance in BPOs</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=101</link>
<description>Asia-Pacific has been the only region to show growth in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market in the first half of 2007.

India-based multinational service providers like IBM, HP, Capgemini 
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<title>And you thought India is among the best in IT!</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=100</link>
<description>Notwithstanding Indias emergence as an IT superpower, a global study has ranked India tenth in Asia-Pacific and 46th worldwide in terms of IT industry competitiveness. 

In the study commissioned b
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<title>Is India's outsourcing honeymoon over?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=99</link>
<description>Report: Labor shortage and wage inflation in outsourcing market has other countries in hot pursuit. 

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Surprise! India's reign as the world's "Outsourcing King" may be slipping
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<title>BPO companies zero in on healthcare outsourcing</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=98</link>
<description>Indian software services BPO companies are setting their sights on the healthcare outsourcing market. Hospitals and large physician groups in the US outsource activities such as patient records, handl
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<title>Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)- RPO is BPO industrys new billion-dollar-baby</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=97</link>
<description>High attrition rates maybe a blot on the great Indian BPO success story, but this problem has helped spin off a niche industry - Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)- which is expected to grow by a b
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<title>China BPO to overtake India!!!</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=96</link>
<description>The IT-BPO industry in China is still in its early phase of evolution but it has the potential to develop a large IT-BPO industry," the study on 'Tracing China's IT Software Services Industry Evolutio
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<title>India's BPO industry faces new challenges</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=95</link>
<description>The fact that the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in India is growing faster than ever was demonstrated by the standing room only sell out response to Nasscoms annual BPO summit in Bang
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<title>BPO: Big grow bigger</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=94</link>
<description>India's BPO success story continued full throttle in the year 2006-2007. The countys third-party BPO exports grew 47 per cent during the fiscal to record revenues of $4.6 billion (Rs 20,890 crore), a
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<title>BPO biggies shy away from BOT projects</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=93</link>
<description>The Build-Operate-Transfer model of business process outsourcing (BPO) is falling out of the favour of large Indian companies. Many large BPO firms that grew by developing outsourcing units for foreig
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<title>Call Centers Leaning More on Web Chats, E-mails</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=92</link>
<description>Traditional call centers have long been a staple of the point of contact for the customer. Historically, these centers were viewed as cost centers for the company as their only purpose was to keep the
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<title>How IVR can be critical to defusing crisis calls</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=91</link>
<description>IVR telephony is, of course, already commonplace in high call traffic organisations, through touch-tone IVR - in providing travel information or cinema listings, for instance - or voice IVR, which is 
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<title>Work at home call center home business Method</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=90</link>
<description>Stressed out from employed at those odd call pivotal point or maybe even at your regular job hours, having the feeling to be at home and pass the time that you truly need for yourself, and yet nervous
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<title>Vcare Switches from Avaya to Cisco  </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=89</link>
<description>Vcare Call Centres India - a 100% subsidiary of Call Centres India (CCI) has contact centre operations in Chennai and New Delhi, providing both voice and non-voice services to global clients. The comp
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<title>India call center goes all Cisco</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=88</link>
<description>Vcare Call Centres India replaced Avaya gear with a Cisco IP Contact Center system, according to a story in CXOtoday. It probably didn't hurt that Cisco funds Vcare's parent, Call Centers india.

Vc
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<title>Managing growth in the BPO sector</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=87</link>
<description>At a clear moonlit night the cool breeze kissed my puffed hair. I walked briskly towards the colossal building from the guesthouse. My heart pumped with excitement as this was my first brush with the 
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<title>BPO players ramping up Philippines operations </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=86</link>
<description>Galloping wage inflation in India is driving companies to cheaper global destinations

The wheel has come a full circle for the Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) sector with runaway wage inf
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<title>BPO operations head into rural India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=85</link>
<description>Indian services companies are opening business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in rural villages as a way of keeping down costs for customers while bridging the digital divide in the country.


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<title>Businesses in the dark over outsourcing gains</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=84</link>
<description>Companies are failing to quantify the benefits gained from outsourcing deals, meaning they are missing key business objectives.

A significant proportion (42 per cent) of outsourcing deals have no f
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<title>US cos offshoring business nearer home</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=83</link>
<description>In what could be bad news for the Indian BPO sector, a growing number of Silicon Valley companies are moving offshore businesses to geographically nearer locations in an effort to cut costs and addres
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<title>BPO revenue cycle services earnings to hit $410-m by 2010 </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=82</link>
<description>The Indian share of BPO revenues from the offshoring of revenue cycle management (RCM) services were estimated at $125 million for 2006, and total revenues from this segment are expected to reach $410
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<title>Indian call centres could face Kenyan challenge </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=81</link>
<description>With the submarine optical fibre cable being laid on the Eastern Africa coast, Kenya could pose a challenge to India, which has in the past decade dominated the outsourcing industry, with revenues tot
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<title>Benefits of Call Center Services</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=80</link>
<description>Call Center services are booming in most developing countries, all around the world. As a result of the competition, Call Center services require aid to carry on their profitable business. Call Center
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<title>Dragon inching closer to India on BPO Operation</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=79</link>
<description>China is closing the gap on India in the business process outsourcing sector, with many companies turning to the dragon for higher-level BPO activities, states a study by IDC on Asia/Pacific excluding
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<title>Call Centre no more, It's BPO Association! </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=78</link>
<description>NEW DELHI: IT is indicative of the graduation of the Indian IT-enabled services industry. They feel it is time they stopped referring to themselves as the call centre business, if they have to move up
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<title>BPO on the Rise in India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=77</link>
<description>Business process outsourcing (BPO) in India is growing within the insurance industry, driven by increasing comfort with BPO vendors and the need to reduce costs, reports Research and Markets, a Dublin
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<title>Asia-Pacific call centres set for strong growth</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=76</link>
<description>The call centre industry in the Asia-Pacific region is forecast to register strong growth this year with Thailand and the Philippines leading the way, a study said Monday. India is forecast to grow at
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<title>Customer Service Outsourcing Market to Hit $12.2 Billion </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=75</link>
<description>The worldwide market for customer service outsourcing is set to grow from $8.4 billion in 2004 to $12.2 billion in 2007, but the offshore component will remain small, according to Gartner Inc. 

In 
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<title>What employees expect </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=74</link>
<description>A RECENT study by Hill and Associates, security and risk management consultants, on the attrition rate in the BPO sector, threw up some interesting insight.The study was conducted on targeted responde
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<title>Move over India, Bulgaria is here</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=73</link>
<description>Beware India, Eastern European nations like Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania and Estonia have been declared the new tech outsourcing leaders of 2005. 

On the other hand, Singapore, Israel and Sweden, the 
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<title>US to have upper hand in outsourcing by 2009</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=72</link>
<description>The contact centre market in India is expected to see a major change in the next two years with third party service providers expected to dominate, according to a study by independent analyst firm Dat
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<title>Outsourcing: The cost equation </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=71</link>
<description>Outsourcing could cost some companies more, some less. Take a look at the metrics worked out. 

WHAT is the reason for the recent increase in outsourcing  

It is the computer and information tech
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<title>Offshore Outsourcing Hits the Mainstream</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=70</link>
<description>According to Datamonitor, both India and the Philippines will see substantial growth in call centers now that U.S. presidential elections are out of the way, allowing U.S. and UK businesses to ramp up
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<title>Why Indian BPO guys are losing out to Filipinos</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=69</link>
<description>A recent survey by the Singapore-based ACA Research and Michigan-based Fortune 500 staffing firm Kelly Services, seems to says that the Filipinos are steadily progressing in the BPO business and may o
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<title>The Customer-Service Outsourcing Craze</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=68</link>
<description>Outsourcing: It is arguably the biggest issue in customer service today. And not just customer service -- the debate about using offshore operations for tasks previously completed in the U.S. even has
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<title>Managing Outsourcing Relationships</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=67</link>
<description>Successful outsourcing  depends on three main factors: It should be the right strategic decision the match needs to suit both parties and the relationship needs to be well managed. Although the form
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<title>What is cooking in the BPO kitchen?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=66</link>
<description>Is the Indian BPO industry beginning to move into a mainstream position from being in the non core, call centre dominated fringes of global BPO  

If so, the stakes are that much higher because ther
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<title>Outsourcing firms battle to retain their employees</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=65</link>
<description>Indian back-office firms face a growing challenge holding on to employees, even as they hire tens of thousands every quarter. 

Indian back-office firms face a growing challenge holding on to employ
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<title>India's BPO leadership under threat but something cooking behind the curtain that will make India even stronger </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=64</link>
<description>India is being challenged on maintaining her leadership in outsourcing. But something interesting is cooking behind the curtain that will make India even stronger in BPO. 

Though business-process o
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<title>South Africa another English-speaking nation moves ahead to challenge India in call center market</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=63</link>
<description>An initiative supported by the national and provincial governments in South Africa to lure call centres of multinationals to this coastal city could impact on India's huge role in this field. 

Marc
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<title>Outsourcing gets into high gear</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=62</link>
<description>Outsourcing IT infrastructure management services is not a new trend for Indian organisations. In the past, Indian companies have outsourced requirements for maintaining LANs, ensuring WAN connectivit
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<title>Call centre workers in India are well taken care of</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=61</link>
<description>Chennai: Call centre professionals in India are well taken care of by the employers, compared to the US, where the workers were treated as a "commodity", said an official of Communication Workers of A
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<title>India at the top of the list of BPO destinations</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=60</link>
<description>London: India, already on top of a list of leading outsourcing destination, has the potential to win even bigger off-shoring projects, according to CEO Briefing, a report written by the Economist Inte
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<title>Debt collection outsourced to India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=59</link>
<description>India is becoming a new hub for a highly competitive outsourcing field - debt collection services - with assurances of reducing debt recovery cost and the time needed for the process. 

US industry 
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<title>India's new competitors in the outsourcing market</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=58</link>
<description>New York: Though business process outsourcing contributes substantially to the country's revenue and drives 30% growth in IT exports , sustaining it would be a challenge as other English-speaking coun
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<title>Accents To Cost Indian Call Center Jobs</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=57</link>
<description>When Sykes Enterprises began considering India for its customer service call centers a few years ago, it saw a country with many bright, hardworking and English- speaking citizens. 
What it didn't an
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<title>Why China will never beat India in the BPO space</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=56</link>
<description>Hindi-Chini bhai bhai! Will this be the BPO mantra for 2010  With global firms looking at an India plus China approach for offshoring , it does seem so. 

Many global firms wanting to outsource will
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<title>Wipro Spectramind gets a new name its Wipro BPO now </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=55</link>
<description>Wipro has decided to rename Wipro Spectramind as Wipro BPO with its business accounting for 10% of Wipro Technologies revenues and having earned a firm footing in the sector. 

Company sources said
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<title>'I made an Indian girl cry, you can do it too!'</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=54</link>
<description>"Q: I'm curious as to what kind of responses you have been getting. Do you use curse words at them  

A: I made an Indian woman cry and promise to quit her job in 60 seconds. You can do it too!" 

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<title>Desi BPO execs get abused by NRIs</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=53</link>
<description>The recent incident of US RJs abusing a BPO girl in India and airing the tape on radio has sparked of the racism debate. But an often-ignored fact is that Indian BPO execs are frequently abused by non
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<title>Offshoring to zoom in 2005</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=52</link>
<description>BANGALORE: NeoIT, an offshore advisory and management firm, foresees a big growth for offshore outsourcing in 2005. 

In its annual roundup of predictions for the coming year, neoIT sees increasing 
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<title>Outsourcing to India aids US economy</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=51</link>
<description>HOUSTON: Up to 15 per cent of IT jobs required by US-based companies will be performed in India by 2010, helping the US economy to create investments worth $30 billion per year, according to a new stu
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<title>Getting Help from and Outsource Call Center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=50</link>
<description>An outsource call center is a place where businesses will send work to an outside company. This is usually done when a manager or supervisor believes that work can be done more efficiently and cheaper
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<title>Using offshore call centers to capture a 50% cost savings and to improve quality and customer satisfaction</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=49</link>
<description>After squeezing out all the potential productivity improvements in their North American and European call centers, GE, American Express, Sprint, Dell, AOL and Amazon went "offshore" to further improve
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<title>Outsourcing on the prowl</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=48</link>
<description>Not too long ago, many CEOs were grappling with the question of whether to outsource part of their business processes to countries like India. 

Fast forward a few years, and the key decision morphe
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<title>42% of mortgage industry leaders favour outsourcing</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=47</link>
<description>West Palm Beach (Florida) and Bangalore: Forty-two percent of the respondents to a survey of mortgage industry leaders said they are likely to outsource at least some services within the next two year
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<title>What it takes to set up a call center?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=46</link>
<description>Any entrepreneur getting into the call center business today should be aware that he is entering a commodity-like business. 

Anyone claiming that they will offer innovation with niche practices is 
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<title>Atlanta Accent Management- Ensuring Communicative Success One Call at a Time</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=45</link>
<description>The benefit of outsourcing Call Centers to overseas locations has been a well-investigated topic over the last several years. However, despite the numerous advantages, companies are often forced to ma
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<title>Are you looking to outsource to IndiaThings you should know</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=44</link>
<description>Outsourcing has never been an easy decision. To ensure a smooth transition, the first step is to sell the idea internally to the organization and build favor from your entire team. Your participation 
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<title>10 reasons - Why you should be work in a BPO </title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=43</link>
<description>Finished college and planning to join a BPO   So, theres going to be jobs galore. Moreover, its hard to get the pink slip if you are working for the BPOs. If employees dont perform well, they are s
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<title>Former DISNEY executive launches new company to improve customer service worldwide</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=42</link>
<description>Howard Lee, former Senior Vice President of Disney Direct, has founded a company called HyperQuality, LLC. HyperQuality, based in Seattle, Washington, has the single purpose of helping customer care p
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<title>Are you looking to outsource to IndiaThings you should know</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=41</link>
<description>Outsourcing has never been an easy decision. To ensure a smooth transition, the first step is to sell the idea internally to the organization and build favor from your entire team. Your participation 
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<title>India lobbies Asia to fight outsource backlash</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=40</link>
<description>India is trying to enlist support of its Asian neighbors and friends to lobby against the outsourcing backlash spreading in Western countries. 

Information technology minister Arun Shourie used a c
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<title>Controversy around offshore outsourcing heats up
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=39</link>
<description>In the past week, analysts and consulting firms have issued reports warning about the downside of overseas call center outsourcing, and even a presidential candidate joined the fray, but most research
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<title>Offshoring Myths? Say It Ain't So
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=38</link>
<description>Zelos found Indian call center agents possess the same quality as American call center agents.

A new report by Zelos Group attempts to debunk what it says are "myths"about offshoring call centers. 
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<title>Growth Areas For Outsourcers?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=37</link>
<description>A report finds that there may be new revenue streams out there for enterprising outsourcers to find.

What can American service bureaus struggling from tough economy do  Perhaps they can look to off
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<title>Who's Offshoring? Who Knows?</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=36</link>
<description>The facts about offshoring are murky, but some researchers are trying to demystify it.

Do you know just many call center agent, supervisor, and other knowledge-worker positions are leaving the US (
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<title>Outsourcing to India to rise further</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=35</link>
<description>Offshore outsourcing to India will grow by at least 30 per cent during 2004 on the back of increased offshoring by bigwigs like IBM, EDS and Accenture, according to information technology research fir
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<title>Ban on outsourcing unfair: Vajpayee</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=34</link>
<description>Describing as "not fair" the recent United States Federal law banning outsourcing of jobs to other countries, including India, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday said there should be ope
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<title>Global BPO sector saves 80% costs through India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=33</link>
<description>The $600-billion global BPO industry is saving as much as 75-80 per cent by setting up operations in India. This comes largely on the back of savings in labour costs. 

According to the latest repor
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<title>After call centres, contract research to take India a notch higher</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=32</link>
<description>The concept of contract research is taking shape in India on the lines of call centres, according to Dr Ashes Ganguly, the honarary secretary of Indian Analytical Instruments Association (IAIA).

He
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<title>India dismisses call centre fears</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=31</link>
<description>Despite Western backlash against job outsourcing to Indian call centres, the Indian software industry was in a buoyant mood as it gathered for its annual conference in Bombay.

The Indian software i
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<title>The BPO tax round table</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=30</link>
<description>Nothing has alarmed the Indian BPO industry as much as the government's proposal to tax some BPO activities. In this "virtual" round table organized by Ernst  Young, BPO company heads and experts sou
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<title>24/7 plans overseas buyout</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=28</link>
<description>Business process outsourcing service provider 24/7 Customer is planning to increase its headcount from 2,600 employees to 6,000 by the end of 2004.

The company is also hoping to complete an oversea
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<title>HP sets up call center in India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=27</link>
<description>Hewlett-Packard has set up a contact center in India to support U.S. customers who use HP consumer products, in another sign that overseas operations are attractive to U.S. tech companies. 

HP open
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<title>Foreign pros seeking jobs in India
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=26</link>
<description>Indian job seekers beware! With a large number of professionals from the United States, the United Kingdom, and African countries seeking jobs in India, competition is bound to rise manifold in the jo
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<title>BPOs will not be affected by US ban</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=25</link>
<description>Indian Information Technology Enabled Services and Business Process Outsourcing are likely to grow at the rate of 54 per cent, to reach $3.6 billion by the end of the year 2003-2004 and about $8 to $9
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<title>Outsourcing of IT jobs to India good for US</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=24</link>
<description>Mass migration of American information technology jobs to India will benefit the United States in the long run, a media report has said.

Today's Indian call centres, programming shops and help desk
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<title>Outsourcing to India to rise further
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=23</link>
<description>Offshore outsourcing to India will grow by at least 30 per cent during 2004 on the back of increased offshoring by bigwigs like IBM, EDS and Accenture, according to information technology research fir
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<title>Ban on outsourcing unfair: Vajpayee</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=22</link>
<description>Describing as "not fair" the recent United States Federal law banning outsourcing of jobs to other countries, including India, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday said there should be ope
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<title>East meets West in call centre flick

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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=21</link>
<description>NEW DELHI: On the outskirts of New Delhi, a state-of-the-art telephone call centre facility serves as the location for the shooting of American Daylight a film that revolves around a culture-clash ph
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<title>MCH to open call centre for citizens

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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=20</link>
<description>A call centre for the citizens to log on complaints is being lined up for the New Year by the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH). The initiative aimed at ensuring more responsible and profession
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<title>UK call centres outperform India
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=19</link>
<description>New Department of Trade and Industry-sponsored research suggests that performance from UK call centres is significantly better than from Indian counterparts, but is that likely to be enough to stem th
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<title>India lobbies Asia to fight outsource backlash
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=18</link>
<description>India is trying to enlist support of its Asian neighbors and friends to lobby against the outsourcing backlash spreading in Western countries. 

Information technology minister Arun Shourie used a c
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<title>Call centres to be India's biggest job-maker
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=17</link>
<description>NEW DELHI: Call centres have become the largest job providers in India if you are to go by a survey conducted by the Employment Cell of India.

A leading daily in India also reported that the Rs 81,
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<title>Good for the Soul</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=16</link>
<description>The biggest impact may not be on the wallets of Indian nationals hired to do outsourced work. 

"One of the things I feel the biggest impact has been is on the psyche of people, especially the educa
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<title>Far-Reaching Effect</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=15</link>
<description>Although 360,000 people represents only a tiny percentage of India's population of 1 billion, outsourcing impacts far more people than those hired by foreign companies, according to Aggarwal. "For eve
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<title>In the Money</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=14</link>
<description>Although Indian employees typically earn less than their American counterparts, the standard of living is improving, said Ramesh Nair, CEO and creative director of Niyati Technologies, based in Chenna
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<title>The Bright Side of Outsourcing</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=13</link>
<description>From a global perspective, offshore outsourcing does have a bright side -- in India and other outsourcing destinations. It reinforces the benefit of higher education, allows individuals to purchase ca
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<title>Offshore outsourcing boom continues</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=12</link>
<description>The offshore market for outsourcing applications development got another boost this week, with SAP, IBM and Siemens all increasing their commitment to the model.

SAP boosted the number of its overs
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<title>CALL CENTRE STAKES UPPED</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=11</link>
<description>The Government has challenged the "myth" that call centres in the UK are in decline as thousands of jobs move to India. 

The move came as Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt unveiled a new
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<title>JOB FEARS OVER CALL CENTRE
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<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=10</link>
<description>Union leaders have raised fears of hundreds more jobs being lost to India. 

They have learnt that a call centre dealing with rail inquiries is to close in the New Year.

The news comes as other u
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<title>Call centres stress on 'right accent'</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=9</link>
<description>Call centres in India are attacked with one frequent complaint that their employees' accents are not right and they cannot be understood. 

The most recent incident involving Dell Computers, has giv
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<title>Outsourcing and Offshoring</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=8</link>
<description>Cost savings aside, going offshore carries risks as well as rewards. It's a big world out there " are you ready for it 

Outsourcing offshore can save 5% to 8% in Canada, and 10% in Mexico for Spani
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<title>Hacking the Contact Center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=7</link>
<description>Every corporate IT department faces its share of security  threats from the outside world. But contact centers  face double the danger, since potential data thieves likely lurk in their own ranks as w
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<title>Offshore call center and call centers in India attrition rates</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=6</link>
<description>The attrition rates for call center in India are extremly high, contrary to the information in the presentation in each of the call centers.
According to National Association of Software and Services
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<title>Call centers india outsourcing and CRM strategy</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=5</link>
<description>Hi, have anyone looked at the call centers in India as a part of their CRM strategy lately. If not look again. The benefits of offshore outsourcing strategy are too high in terms of cost saving withou
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<title>Call center outsource</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=4</link>
<description>Call Centers in India

In order to meet the growing international demand for cost-effective, customer-oriented call centers, many organizations worldwide are outsourcing these services from location
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<title>Top Notch Call Center in talks to buy foreign call center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=3</link>
<description><a href="http://www.spectramind.com">Wipro Spectramind</a> a business process outsourcing company, is in talks with <a href="http://www.etelecare.com">eTelecare</a>, a Philippine based call center com
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<title>New Incentives for establishing call center in India</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=2</link>
<description>The recently announced <a href='http://dgft.delhi.nic.in/'> EXIM Policy 2003 </a> has something for both IT services and ITES companies in the country. The Government, this year, has attempted to remo
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<title>Leading Software Company forays into call center</title>
<link>http://www.callcentersindia.com/displaynews.php?idnews=1</link>
<description>In line with strategy to enter the BPO space <a href='http://www.mascotsystems.com'> Mascot Systems</a> , a leading global offshore software services company, today announced its entry into the IT Ena
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