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The customer care outsourcing segment supporting carevolumes for North America is mature, highly fragmented, and competitive. Frost & Sullivan research has found that there are hundreds of customer care outsourcers in North America. While competition among vendors is fierce, there are fewer than twenty global Tier I outsourcing firms that dominate ...

11 Feb 2021  |  Europe  |  Megatrends

A New Global Paradigm with China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative

Improved Connectivity and Reshaping of Trade Relations Leading to New Growth Opportunities

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China envisions the revival of the ancient Silk Road, which previously facilitated trade with nations across Persia, Central Asia, and Europe for over 2,000 years, as a catalyst to unify both local and international markets through trade activities and trade routes. The introduction of the One Belt, One Road Initiative in 2013 seeks to develop a ne...

US President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imports of passenger vehicles, light trucks, and certain automotive parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components, among them) on March 26, 2025. He also announced a more comprehensive set of “reciprocal tariffs,” starting at 10% on almost all goods from most countries.S...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a process of damage detection and prevention of high value or critical assets, such as bridges, buildings, aircraft, pipelines, and so on. Different types of sensors and detection systems are being explored for assessment of structural integrity. SHM technologies not only detect the ongoing damage of a structur...

Water and wastewater (W&WW) utilities across the globe are increasingly exploring digital solutions to improve their resilience, and economical and environmental sustainability, which have been impacted by factors like water stress, pollution, and climate change. Digitalization through Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based smart solutions has ...

This report provides an overview of the US-China trade war plan and its consequences. It also investigates the impacts of the US-China trade war on Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. The US-China trade war has been the main reason behind the uncertainty in financial markets during 2018 and 2019, which has affected investor confidence globally. For ...

Frost & Sullivan’s June 2022 study, Sustainability and Circularity Matters—Contact Center Growth Opportunities Under the ESG Umbrella (K747-76), focused on CC service providers’ sustainability efforts as low-hanging fruit for progress in the broader ESG area. This analysis serves as a broader update to the June 2022 study. Some industries, includi...

Countries worldwide are on the verge of reducing their overall greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve their objectives, setting regulatory standards and targets to control emissions from vehicles plays a crucial role. Regional governments adopt Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation policies/standards to reduce energy consumption, promote s...

The study focuses on the impacts of three evolving business models—service-based, fee-based, and eCommerce—that test and measurement (T&M) providers will face from 2016. Mega Trends across industry verticals such as automotive, healthcare, aerospace, consumer electronics, communication, and energy and environment lead to the creation of certain fac...