The Complex Landscape of BPO Data Privacy

Safeguarding customer data is essential for any business, not only to meet regulatory requirements, but to maintain trust in your brand. When outsourcing customer service, IT or back office work to a third party, it’s important to partner with a BPO committed to high standards of data privacy and security. This white paper contains guidelines….

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Meet Cluey’s Head of Operations, Namrata Agarwal

Namrata Agarwal was one of Cluey Learning’s earliest employees, joining in 2018, the year the online tutoring platform launched. Now a public company (ASX: CLU), Cluey has expanded beyond its home market of Australia and has delivered more than half a million tutoring sessions. In this exclusive interview with Matchboard, Namrata gives us an inside….

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Embedding the Human Touch in Customer Experience

In the rush towards customer service automation, accelerated during the pandemic, have organisations gone too far in sacrificing the “human touch”? When it comes to empathy, creativity, sensitivity and initiative, humans simply do it better than machines. This white paper explores the scenarios where human contact can deliver better outcomes for customers and businesses alike…..

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The Ultimate Guide to Outsourcing in 2024

The outsourcing landscape is unrecognisable compared to just a few years ago before the pandemic. Locations, operating models, and vendor options have all changed. This invaluable 27-page Guide will set you up for success, whether you’re outsourcing for the first time, or changing strategy in 2024.  Content includes: – key principles of successful outsourcing –….

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Solutions for the contact centre talent shortage

Catalysed by the pandemic, the Great Resignation and Great Exhaustion have hit contact centres hard. Both the organisations that run contact centres and their customers have been negatively impacted, prompting a radical rethink of HR and operational strategy. This white paper highlights 7 solutions to the talent shortage, and deep dives into one solution –….

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Contact Centre Outsourcing – Advantages and Models

Businesses in Australia are spoilt for choice when it comes to contact centre outsourcing – there are hundreds of vendors in this multi-billion dollar market. But before you go about selecting a vendor, it’s important to understand the commercial models available, and the benefits of outsourcing, which you can drop straight into a business case…..

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The eCommerce Leader’s Guide to Outsourcing

The greatest fear companies have when considering outsourcing their customer service or back office is, in a word, failure. That’s because we’ve all heard horror stories of outsourcing gone wrong. But the good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way. Having helped thousands of clients over the course of her 30-year career in….

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing to the Philippines

For companies throughout the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, the Philippines is the first country that comes to mind for offshoring services ranging from contact centre to back office and I.T.  The benefits of outsourcing to the Philippines are numerous and the country has successfully built a powerhouse BPO industry. However the pandemic has prompted….

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What does it cost to outsource to Fiji?

Fiji is riding a boom in interest from Australian businesses for outsourcing services. This report outlines the cost of Fiji customer service, recruiting, accounting & administrative resources. The paper also covers the cost of living and visiting Fiji, and what’s included in the cost of staff leasing companies should you wish to extend your team….

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How one education company successfully pivoted operations during Covid

Note: the below interview was conducted in 2023 and Steve Culpeper has since moved to a new role. Please visit LinkedIn for up-to-date information. Education was one of the hardest hit sectors in Australia during Covid. Through an innovative approach to cost reduction and course delivery, Gradability – Australia’s largest dedicated graduate employability specialist –….

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing: RPO benefits, models and services

In this article, we describe everything you need to know about RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing), from models and services to cost and operational benefits! What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing? RPO is a form of outsourcing whereby one organisation contracts with a specialist company to handle all or parts of its talent acquisition and hiring process…..

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Offshoring and Outsourcing: Definitions, Models and Segments

Outsourcing is the contracting of a service to a third party. The outsourcing industry is broken down into segments, the largest of which are BPO and ITO (collectively referred to by some as IT-BPO). These two segments are estimated to represent a global market value of US$700 billion.  ITO is the larger of the two…..

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What differentiates Sri Lanka for Business Process Outsourcing

Unlike many industries, business process outsourcing (BPO) has continued to grow through the pandemic. COVID-19 caused an increase in activity for banks, insurance companies, government agencies and so many others, who struggled to cope internally and turned to outsource partners for help. Increased comfort with remote working and the need for strong business continuity arrangements….

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61 Essential Facts about Outsourcing to Fiji

Fiji has been called “the contact centre industry’s best-kept secret” and the “new frontier” of business process outsourcing. It may not be the first country that comes to mind for Australian and New Zealand businesses looking to outsource, but that is changing – rapidly. Government and industry are making a concerted effort to make the….

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How Fiji stacks up for outsourcing versus the Philippines and India

When considering setting up a team offshore, most Australian and New Zealand businesses think of the Philippines or India as their only choices. Fiji, however, is a compelling alternative for a wide range of services, from accounting and HR support to admin and customer service. This white paper*, particularly useful for small and mid-size businesses,….

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