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A look into the BPO & nearshore industry in times of global financial concern 

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But even though we are facing times of uncertainty, for reasons that I will mention later, Business Process Outsourcing stands as one of the main alternatives for those companies that seek to stay in business. A crisis in which they were lost $8 trillion in value between late 2007 and 2009. Image by pikisuperstar on Freepik.

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Famous business pivot examples that you should know of

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Most consumers don’t realize Groupon actually got started in 2008 as a consumer activism site known as The Point in 2007. If you enjoyed reading this article on business pivot examples, you should check out this one about IT outsourcing failures. Groupon This startup launched in 2008 introducing the new concept of daily deals.