{"id":1421,"date":"2012-01-05T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/that-bpo-smackdown_050112\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:55:00","slug":"that-bpo-smackdown_050112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/that-bpo-smackdown_050112\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown: Where is BPO going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the highlights of 2011 was that great web-debate on the Future of BPO where 1,100 people across the globe dialed in to hear from our buy and sell families. \u00a0<\/strong>Like any typical extended family at Thanksgiving, they cussed and discussed about the trends and challenges buffeting BPO. They passed the peas and offered some pretty unbridled opinion and insight. 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