BPOs urged: Focus on what you do best

Victor Anthony V. Silva 01/23/2017

Amid growing competition from other Southeast Asian nations, a leader in the Philippine Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) industry cited the need for local players to focus on what they do best. Lito Tayag, vice chairman of…

Queen Rising in the Pacific

PR 01/16/2017

CEBU is the new cradle of the service industry where Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) stands out. Big companies with gallant portfolios have been coming in to the Queen City of the South to expand their businesses. The…

BULLISH IN 2017

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/31/2016

CEBU’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK (FIRST OF THREE PARTS) Amid a backdrop of turbulence in the country’s political arena as well as an international backlash on the Duterte administration’s brutal war against drugs, the business community is unaffected and…

Cordova-based firm to offer franchisable BPO businesses

Aileen Garcia-Yap 12/11/2016

Looking to encourage more local players to get into the outsourcing business, an owner of a local large BPO company based in Cordova, Cebu will soon be offering franchisable BPO businesses. Michael Cubos, 32, who founded Performance…

DH25 Inter-BPO hoopfest launched

Calvin D. Cordova 12/08/2016

Basketball enthusiasts from business process outsourcing (BPO) companies will get additional exposure via the 2017 DH25 Inter-BPO Basketball Tournament. The tournament was launched yesterday led by no less than Dondon Hontiveros, the veteran guard of the Alaska…

More skilled workers needed for BPOs to move to next level

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/06/2016

The local business process outsourcing sector (BPO) is encouraged to develop more skilled workers and “move up in the value chain.” Jose Mari Yu, Cebu City’s investment czar, said the BPO sector lacked skilled workers in the…

BPO sector gets boost

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/04/2016

Despite Trump threat, US firm expands recruitment hub in Cebu An American business process outsourcing (BPO) company is showing its confidence in the continued growth of the industry in the country by expanding its recruitment hub at…

Betting on the BPO market

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/22/2016

Cebu developer shows confidence on outsourcing sector with an estimated billion-peso project A leader in the local real estate industry expressed confidence in the market for business process outsourcing (BPO) offices despite US President-elect Donald Trump’s pronouncements…

Hybrid trains to service call center employees

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/13/2016

A HYBRID electric road train to be rolled out by the Cebu City government and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) may soon service call center employees in the city. Joel Yu, the pointman of Cebu…

Tomas assures more employees for BPO firms

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/10/2016

CEBU City will continue to improve its programs to accommodate the growing needs of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, Mayor Tomas Osmeña said yesterday. “We’re putting programs to make Cebu City the number one host of…

Cebu traders urge calm among stakeholders

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/10/2016

Amid anxiety over a Trump presidency possibly resulting in a relocation of US investments, Cebuano business leaders remain hopeful and have called for stakeholders to keep calm. Philip Tan, Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) past…

Salceda wants Trump blacklisted in PH

11/10/2016

The congressman who earlier filed a resolution seeking to bar Donald Trump from entering the country warned that the newly elected US president’s protectionist policy could hurt the Philippines’ interests, particularly on the business process outsourcing (BPO)…

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