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Home » Hey, Talk It Up: Outsourcing Requires Communication

Hey, Talk It Up: Outsourcing Requires Communication

September 19, 2007
CIO

It is striking how most everyone will insist that communication is a key activity to successful outsourcing. So why the heck can it be so darn hard to make people within an organization understand what is going on? And why is it so hard to have clear-cut communication between the outsourcer and the outsourced?
Source: CIO, http://cio.com

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