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The Pros and Cons of Fiverr and Traditional Outsourcers

J Ben Trowbridge

I. Introduction Outsourcing has become an integral part of business strategies, with companies constantly seeking cost-effective and efficient solutions. When it comes to outsourcing options, we will cover two popular choices are Fiverr, a platform where you can connect with various freelancers, and traditional outsourcing providers, delving into the pros and cons of each. The …

Disrupter Turned Destroyer: How Mobility is Killing Corporate Productivity

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

Please silence your smartphone and give this article your full attention. For most people these days, that’s easier said than done, with the normalization of mobility tools. Although the proliferation of mobility has untethered global employees from their desks, provided anytime access to the information they need to do their jobs, and given workforces newfound …

The New-Age Social Revolution

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Companies can use social media effectively to generate and spread ideas, to collaborate and communicate in real-time across the organization. In a world where the death of a butterfly in Mexico and rise of forest fires in Australia are connected, where opposing calamities like droughts and floods are the result of one cause, does it …

Winning Approach to BPO: Be Flexible, Stay Involved, Commit for the Long Term

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

16th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Award Winner 2012—Best New Process/Application: Rio Tinto and Infosys Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group, and at almost 200,000 invoices a month, is one of the largest global accounts payable operations around. Until 2009, these payables were handled in house, by separate regional onshore teams in five different countries, …

Six Ways to Tell Your Outsourcing Relationship Has Become Too Informal

Frank Usher, Managing Consultant

Renewing and renegotiating outsourced relationships is a great learning experience about what can go wrong in a relationship. One prevalent characteristic is the informality of the provider/customer relationship in long-standing relationships. Contracts that have been in place seven-ten years often lapse into an informality that has the provider acting more as an internal IT department …

Small U.S.-Based Finance and Accounting Outsourcer Delivers Value of Large Providers

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

The bulk of most companies’ operational costs are in manpower, says Ragu Bhargava, CEO of Global Upside, Inc., a finance and accounting (F&A) service provider. That’s one of the reasons companies in all industries are increasingly bucking the long-held practice of retaining full-time F&A staff in house. Mountain View, Calif,-based Global Upside, Inc. provides services …

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