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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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gap analysis
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
The study of the differences between two different information systems or applications, often for the purpose of determining how to get from one state to a new state. Sometimes ...
nearshoring/nearshore outsourcing
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Refers to the process of transferring specific business tasks to a service provider located in a different country that is relatively close in terms of distance.
auction
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Also called a public sale; a publicly held sale at which used cars are sold to the highest bidder.
certification
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Act of referring screened, eligible candidates to the employing authority for further consideration.
link farm
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
A link farm is a group of separate, highly interlinked websites for the purposes of inflating link popularity (or PR). Engaging in a link farm is a violation of the Terms Of ...
transcription
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Process of converting audio and/or scanned image files into written form; files can be from business meetings, seminars, conferences, and focus group discussions.
agile software development
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Calls for keeping code simple, testing often, and delivering small, functional bits of the application as soon as they're ready. The focus is to build a succession of parts, ...
