Outsourcing glossary
The most comprehensive list of business process outsourcing related terms and definition
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AIBEST
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Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL)
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Latin American Association of Services Exporters (ALES)
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Appreciation
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Asset allocation
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Annualized rate of return
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Accelerator
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Angel investor
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
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Available state
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Answer supervision
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Appointment setting
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Attendance point system
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Automatic callback
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Application programming interface (API)
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Agent status code
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All Hands On Deck (AHOD)
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Application developer
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Account code
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Automatic speech recognition
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Automatic call sequencer
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Animation outsourcing
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Average After-Call Work Time
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Auto dialer software
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Association of IT and Business Process Services Companies in Poland (ASPIRE), Poland
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Available Time
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Abandoned call
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Automated Attendant
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AOV (average order value)
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Average Handle Time (AHT)
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Auxiliary Work State
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Agent/Supervisor Ratio
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Average Time between Calls
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Average Hold Time Inbound Calls
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Agent Satisfaction Survey (ASAT) Score
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Agent Development
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Analytics and Reporting Process
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Auxiliary (AUX) Time in Percent
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Average Talk Time (ATT)
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Average Speed of Answer (ASA)
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Auto Response
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After Call Work Time
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Average Hourly Agent Wage (US$)
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Automatic Call Distributor
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Agent Utilization Rate
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Agent Turnover
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Automatic Dialer
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Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
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Agent Occupancy
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Average Response Time
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Abandon Rate Percentage
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Amazon Virtual Assistant
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Asynchronous messaging
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Artificial Intelligence
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Automated Clearing House (ACH)
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Agents
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Business Processes Outsourcing Association of Kenya (BPOAK)
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Board of trustees
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Bond
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BCG matrix
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BPO marketplace
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Business-Level Strategy
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Bull market
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Blue chip
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Bear market
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Business as usual (BAU)
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Balanced scorecard
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Busy hour
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Business process automation (BPA)
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Business process improvement
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Business development representative
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Bluetooth
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Business risk
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Back-end developer
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Baltic Outsourcing Association
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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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Board of Investments (BOI)
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Business Environment
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Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA)
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Blended Call Center
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Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
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Base Salary per Year
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Bonus or Incentive Compensation
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Best Practice
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Blended Agents
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Business to Business (B2B) Call Center
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Benchmarking
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Budget
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Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
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B2B Payment
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What is business process outsourcing?
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Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)
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Bookkeeping
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Back Office
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Capital loss
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CMS software
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Content marketing agency
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Caller-entered digits
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Call metering
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Call length
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Customer access channels
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Caller satisfaction collection process
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Call riding
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Call center occupancy
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Call wait time announcement
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Conformance
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Call center interval
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Call auditing
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Customer experience management (CEM)
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Coworking
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Call center management
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Call disposition
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Chief technology officer
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Conditional routing
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Employee churn rate
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Claims processing
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Cold outreach
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Customer sentiment
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Crowdsourcing
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Call center nightmare syndrome
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Customer relationship management (CRM)
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Call strategy
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Cheap labor
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Customer retention
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Call types
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Customer engagement process
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Capital Market
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Conversation analytics
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Call center wrap codes
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Call avoidance
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Copywriter
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Customer share
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Customer journey
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Caller Satisfaction Collection Process
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Customer journey mapping
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Creative Economy Council of the Philippines (CECP)
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Cebu IT-BPM Organization
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Contact Centre Managers and Supervisors Group (CCMG)
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Corporate-level strategy
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Call Control
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Coaching
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Contact Center Management
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Calling Line Identity
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Case Management
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Customer effort score
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Concierge
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Click to chat
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Call Greeting
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Call drivers
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
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Call Detail Recording
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Callback
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Call Guide
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Call Opening
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Call Closing
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Courtesy Callback
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Cross-Sell Matrix
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Cloud-based
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Cold Transfer
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Company Culture
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Call Center Attrition
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Call blending
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Call Transfer
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Chat Bot
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Calls In Queue
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Contacts per Hour
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Caller Self-Service Process
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Customer Value Segment
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Cost per Call
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Calls Handled by Agent-Outbound
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Calls Handled by Agent-Inbound
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Calls Handled
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Calculated Self-Service in Percent
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Calls Transferred in Percent
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Chat Session
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Consumer to Business
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Calls per Agent per Hour
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Contacts Resolved on the First Contact
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Calls Blocked in Percent
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Calls Handled by IVR
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Caller Satisfaction
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Caller Service Recovery
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Collection Effectiveness Index
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Call Center Performance Evaluation
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Cost per Contact
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Calls Resolved on First Call
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Customer-Centric
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Complaints
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Customer Lifetime Value
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Call Quality Monitoring
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Call Routing Process
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Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI)
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Campaign List
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Digital Global Business Services Council Malaysia (GBS Malaysia)
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Dividend
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Digital nomad
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Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
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Dedicated outbound agent
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Digital customer service
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Descriptive analytics
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Digital assets
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Direct message (DM)
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Delay announcement
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Downsizing
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Data entry software
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Digital asset management software
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Design thinking
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Document management system
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Demand generation
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Data mining
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Digital economy
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Double jacking
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Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
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Diversification
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Data-directed call routing
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Day-of-week routing
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Dynamic network routing
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Decision-making
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Do Not Call Registry (DNC list)
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Dial Attempts
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DNIS: Dialed Number Identification Service
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Dedicated virtual assistant
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Domestic Outsourcing
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Distributed Workforce
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Digital Nomad
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Digital Payment
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Digital Marketing
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Data Entry
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E-commerce virtual assistant
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Equity fund
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Email marketing
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Employee turnover
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Exit interview
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Envelope strategy
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Ecommerce marketing
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End-to-end process
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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Expected wait time
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Error rate
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Employee pulse check
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Explanatory Approach
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Escalation Plan
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Efficiency Metrics
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Erlang
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Erlang Models
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E-commerce
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Email Auto-Responder
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eCommerce virtual assistant
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Employer of Record (EOR)
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Entrepreneur
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Escalation
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Employee Satisfaction (ESAT)
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Email Support
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Facebook ads
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Foreign subsidiary
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Fast clear down
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Full-stack developer
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Foreign direct investments (FDI)
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Front-end developer
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Call center forecasting
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First Contact Resolution
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Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
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Free Virtual Assistant
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Full-time virtual assistant
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First Response Time (FRT)
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Financial Services Company
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Fully Managed Outsourcing
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Full-Time Employee (FTE)
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Freelancer
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First Call Resolution
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Finance & Accounting
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Global Technology & Business Services Council (GTBSC)
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Global Sourcing Association (GSA)
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Growth stock
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Growth investing
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Green bond
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German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI)
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Greenwashing
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Game making software
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Game developer
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Grade of Service (GoS)
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Gantt chart
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Global Services Association of Jamaica
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Gig economy
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Game development
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Gamification
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Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA)
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Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (INTAJ)
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IT Ukraine Association
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Investment advisor
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Value investing
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Impact investing
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Interest rate
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International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Inflation
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International Trade Union Confederation
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Information access
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Intelligent customer experience (ICX)
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Invisible queue
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Incremental analysis
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Intraflow
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Internal response time
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Intellectual property
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Imaging Software
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Intelligent call routing
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Internet Phone (IP)
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ISO Certification
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International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP)
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Internal help desk
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Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
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Informal Communication
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Initial Public Offering (IPO)
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IBPAP
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Inbound sale
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Intraday management
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Initiate Outbound Calls
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Inbound Calls Handled
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IVR Opt-Out
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Inbound Calls Closed on First Call
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Inbound Calls per Agent per Hour
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Inbound Calls Offered
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Inbound Call Auxiliary Time
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Inbound Calls Average Speed of Answer
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Inbound Calls Transferred
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Internal Metrics
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Idle Time
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In-app support
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Impact Sourcing
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Liquidity
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Legal outsourcing
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Longest Waiting Agent
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Leave loading
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Labor cost
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Local exchange carrier
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Lost calls
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Longest delay in queue
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Live monitoring
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Longest available agent
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Level Zero Solvable
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Load balancing
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Labor Union
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Labor Union
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List Penetration
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Lead Generation Virtual Assistant
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Live Chat Support
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Learning Management System (LMS)
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Lead Generation
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Multilingual agents
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Mutual fund
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Maximum delay to answer
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Maximum delay to abandoning
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Mystery shopping
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Medical phone answering service
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Medical call center
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Maximum wait time
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Medical transcription
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Medical coder
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Multi-skilling
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Advanced Mobile Location
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Mind mapping
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Merger
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Medical coding
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Marketing Information
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Moment of Truth
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Marketing Virtual Assistant
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Multi-Channel Support
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National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)
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Next available agent
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Network inter-flow
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Natural language IVR
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Non-ACD in-call
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Non-productive agent time
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Nuisance call
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Network mapping software
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.NET developer
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National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
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Not ready code
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Net Promoter Score (NPS)
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Nearshore Outsourcing
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Outbound dialing campaign
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Other Service Providers Association of India
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Offshoring consultant
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Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW)
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Open ticket
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Overflow
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Online review management
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Open-source exam software
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Off-peak
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Occupancy rate
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Outbound sales
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Overflow calls
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Open source billing software
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Organizational structure
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Operations management
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Organizational Conflict
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Option Strategy
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Organizational culture
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Online marketing
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Outsourcing Consultants
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Outbound Call Types
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Outbound Call Campaign
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Outbound Performance Metrics
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Offshore Accounting
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Outsourcing Summit
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Online Virtual Assistant
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Outsourcing Company
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Outsourcing
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Order Processing
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Onshore Outsourcing
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Omnichannel Customer Service
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Omni-channel
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Offshore Outsourcing
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Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGO)
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Phygital
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Product manager
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Predictive hang-up
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Prescriptive analytics
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Penalty hold
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Process analysis
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Penalty rates
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PHP developer
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Public switched telephone network (PSTN)
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Primary rate interface
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Poisson distribution
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Profit margin
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Progressive dialer
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Patient satisfaction
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PPC Marketing
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Productivity software
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Post call survey
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Professional employer organization
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Procurement
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Process mapping
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Part-time Agents
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Performance metrics
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Percent of Callers Giving a Perfect Score for Customer Satisfaction
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Percent Agent Utilization
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Penetration Level
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Percent Blocked Calls
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Percent Abandoned
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Preview Dialer
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Peer Group (Call Center)
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Peer Group
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Predictive Dialer
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Power Dialer
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PBX
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Podcast Virtual Assistant
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Property Sector Virtual Assistant
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PCI Compliance
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Payoneer
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PEZA
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Professional Outsourcing
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Payroll
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Remote patient monitoring
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Retrenchment
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Redundancy
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Rest day overtime
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Rate card
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Reader board
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Rostered staff factor
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Round-robin distribution
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Reservation system
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Rebranding
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Redaction
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Real estate virtual assistant
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Respond to E-mail
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Remote Team
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Remote Work
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Rejection
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Right-Party Connects (RPC)
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Resolution Time
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Remote Employee
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
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Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM)
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Sustainability bond
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Seed money
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Sustainable investing
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Startup incubator
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Social media automation
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Social media marketing (SMM)
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Search engine optimization (SEO)
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Scalability
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Speech analytics
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Strategic leadership
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Software audit tools
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Superannuation
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Side-by-side coaching
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Session Initiation Protocol
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Salesforce developer
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Statement of work (SOW)
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SQL developer
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Social media marketer
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Screen monitoring
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Schedule exception
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Smallsourcing
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Social media customer service
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Strategic intent
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Sole proprietorship
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Semantic SEO
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Scheduled callback
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Software developer
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Strategic business unit
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Social Media Marketing
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
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Staffing agency
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SEO software
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Sampling Plan
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Strategic Business Unit
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Strategy implementation
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Strategic Planning
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SEO Outsourcing Service
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SWOT Analysis
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Software Outsourcing
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Software
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Staffing Model
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Span of Control
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Service Improvement
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Skills-based Routing
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Semi-automatic Dialer
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Shrinkage
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Service Level
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Subject Matter Expert (SME)
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Smart Autodialer
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Speech Recognition
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Serviced Accommodation Virtual Assistant
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SEO Virtual Assistant
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Social Media Virtual Assistant
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Self-Service Portal
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Six Sigma
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SMS Support
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Support Channel
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Shared Services
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Shared Services Centre
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
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Support Ticket
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Startup
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Staff Leasing
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Social Media Support
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Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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Seat Leasing
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Sales
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Tax-exempt income
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Technical writer
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Toll-free service
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Total cost
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True calls per hour
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Text messaging freeware
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Telecommuting
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Talent acquisition
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Types of companies
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TCPA Compliance
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Touch-point
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Transcription Virtual Assistant
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Teammate
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Telephony
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Ticketing System
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Transformational Growth
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Telephone Answering Service
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Technical Support
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Team Leader
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