Outsourcing & offshoring

Outsourcing & offshoring

The process of contracting a business function to a third party, or to a supplier outside the home nation of the original business.

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business days

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The period of time during a given work week that a business considers itself open. National holidays and weekends are not usually considered business days.

screening matrix

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Tool (as simple as a list of criteria) which provides a summary of candidates and qualifications that assists in determining who will proceed through the final assessment or ...

offshore team

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A team of full-time employees working for you exclusively from an offshore location; size can range from 1 to 25 employees.

at-risk rules

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Rules that limit an investor's deductible losses from an investment to the amount invested. Complications arise when investors finance their investment through loans that they ...

schedule and control

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The unit of Administrative Computing Services which is responsible for scheduling and running production jobs/processes and distributing resulting reports.

game moderation

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

An outsourcing discipline that involves screening content/messages from players in role-playing games (rpg) or massive multi-player online (mmo) games, approving those that are ...