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How to Choose a Reliable Partner for Offshoring

CEO Insider

License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Choose a Reliable Partner for Offshoring are those of the author Dmitry Ovcharenko alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine. Vendors who lacked transparency and/or couldn’t live up to contractual expectations were usually to blame.

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. While the banks compete among themselves, they face existential threats from amalgam of entities, not necessarily possessing bank licenses. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Data consolidation. What works in U.S.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.