An overview from The DDC Group Knowledge Process Outsourcing

Outsourcing Benefits  Increased competitiveness and market position  Reduced risk associated with current operations and growth  Improved internal focus on core competencies  Low-cost expansion of capacity and operating hours  Stronger resilience during market downturns

Group Overview  Outsourcing group established 1989  Cash-rich with no inward investment  Client base North America and Europe  Primary operations Philippines — 3,500 staff  Multiple industry verticals  Hybrid onshore–offshore solutions  Hybrid technology and manual knowledge- based solutions 

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The DDC Style  Consultation freely given  Services that fit your organization, rather than imposing upon it  Flexible and agile  Friendly, personal communications  Openness

Safe & Sound  Commercial confidentiality  Accountability for what you give us and what we deliver back  Adherence to international standards of information security management  Clearance checks on all staff  Secure connection to cloud and traditional networks  Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity arrangements

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Knowledge Process Outsourcing

Six Steps to KPO Success  Process identification and documentation  Knowledge transfer  Knowledge worker recruitment and training; System set-up  Testing and piloting, leading to live service  Continuous live service under SLA  Innovation and service scope increase

The Philippines

For Instance: Scholarly Indexing  For a major publishing company: Academic publications since 1999  Client trained teams of medics and engineers  Pre-publication articles analyzed for concepts  Over 250,000 authorized index terms  Three-day turnaround time

For Instance: O&G KPO  For a major oilfield services company: Drill Bits — Daily Drilling Reports  Since 2009  Centralized, client-trained team serves global client offices  “Necessary Evil Time” of engineers addressed  Knowledge-based compliance checking, query resolution, information capture and quality assurance  Agreed delivery cycle times  Secure VPN connection to Houston server from Philippines

 Interactive Prospect Targeting (IPT) - since 2000  MyOffers.com and QuizFactor.com  Offshore client office: FTE-based, not transaction- based DDC infrastructure, HR, training Manila/Leyte DDC infrastructure, HR, training Manila/Leyte Client direction and supervision Client direction and supervision  Data cleansing, order processing, database maintenance, creative research, software development  Dedicated Centre of Excellence For Instance: Outsourced Office

For Instance: Digital Mailroom  Baines & Ernst — a debt management company  Client scans over 100,000 incoming documents a month into its own document management system  Centralized, client-trained team in the Philippines securely accesses the system and classifies the documents into nearly 100 types, triggering the necessary workflows  Cost of classification task and associated management overheads reduced without compromising data quality or timeliness

 High-volume document scanning and processing  UPS, Estes, R&L and more — Bills of Lading (BOL)  Centralized, client-trained team in the Philippines serves all terminals nationwide — over 2 million BOLs a month  1 hour BOL compliance checking and capture cycle typical  Problems of high turnover of terminal staff and excessive invoice disputes addressed  Automation solutions being developed to reduce cost more For Instance: FPO in Freight

 Financial Services Company – Business Information  UK company accounts analytical capture: 100 graduates  Swedish Finnish French and German  Swedish  Finnish  French and German  Swedish unstructured sources / OCR / Data linkage  All from the Philippines  Establishing the bond of trust  Strategic partnership for rapid growth with quality For Instance: Bond of Trust

How The DDC Group Helps  Collaborates on business development  Reduces the cost of processes as an outsourcing provider  Commits to quality and timeliness through a Service Level Agreement  Provides continuous support so that outsourcing remains effective  Supports innovation through technology

An overview from The DDC Group Knowledge Process Outsourcing