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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. You cant isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup'

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. You can’t isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal. Look at internal services versus external services. Marty Zwilling.

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How to Design an Effective Bonus Plan

The Quigley Report

For instance, a VP of Operations might be bonused on 3 measurements: COGS, product shippments and customer satisfaction results. The next quarter, all of her bonus might be based on opening an offshore development center by a certain date. I have seen too many bonus plans with 15 + factors driving the bonus award.

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