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Online Platforms Enabling the Rise of Global Micro Outsourcing Firms

Small Business Labs

Glocalization  refers to the integration of local differences in the cost and availability of skills to a standardized global structure that enables their use. As the chart below from the 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence study shows, about 1 in 5 U.S.   But U.S. in greater numbers.

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To boost productivity in the UK, we need to think big and different

Workplace Insight

The direct cost of avoidable error in the construction industry, for example, is around 5 percent of project value according to international studies highlighted by construction industry experts GIRI (Get It Right Initiative). In addition, operational managers are often faced with variations of international, national, and regional standards.