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The SPiCE Magazine • September 2019
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EDITOR’S NOTE
We bring to you the second issue of SPiCE Magazine. It’s entitled
“Forty-fied”, to underscore that SPi Global is so much more at forty.
Four decades in business is no mean feat by any standard and we are
celebrating that milestone in this magazine, highlighting stories of
people, key projects and events in our journey. The road to 40 years
Celeste Ilagan as a company has been marked with changes and challenges,
achievements and successes. We are what we are today, absolutely
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fortified, because of the path we travelled.
Still, there’s so much more ahead of us, undoubtedly for the next forty years, built on the strong foundation of the past 40.
So, we are sharing updates on recent and new initiatives this year that would help propel us to higher levels of technology
adoption and automation, as expected by our clients. Among our business objectives is client centricity and concerted
efforts to improve in this area are entrenched in this year’s programs.
At forty, SPi Global is arguably the oldest BPO company in the world. Such a unique distinction becomes all the more
meaningful because through the years, we have also become the leading and biggest content technology solutions
company. We hope that the messages, news and stories shared in SPiCE, kindle our energy and ignite our excitement to
celebrate this momentous time in our history. Happy reading!
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Message From the President & CEO
We recently kicked off our 40th year anniversary celebration and this early,
I would like to congratulate all of us for this milestone. I would also like to
thank all of you for your hard work, dedication and loyalty, allowing us to
go this far.
At 40 years, we are the oldest BPO company. This is something no other
company, here and overseas, can claim. We enjoy this unique distinction,
but we don’t really talk about it. Does it mean we don’t consider it a
feather in our cap we should be proud of? I believe we are of the
mindset that there’s so much more to SPi Global which makes
its longevity in the business, while noteworthy, quite
immaterial. More than stability and even growth, which
being 40 years can denote, we focus more on our journey
as a company, our evolution from providing data entry
services in the 80’s, to becoming the leading content
solutions provider in the publishing space, to currently being
the world’s leading content technology solutions company.
With all our projects and the usual challenges that came
with them, years flew by. Now we are 40 years young and
I realize that this is a cause for celebration. I, myself, have
been with the company for 16 years of the four decades we
are clocking in and I look back fondly to where we came from.
We honed in on sustained training and talent development
for our employees, recognizing that they are our best assets;
that we have thousands of subject matter experts through-
out the enterprise who are second to none. We developed
powerful synergies and expanded operations in different
geographies. We drove innovation as a norm and continued
to push hard on faster technology adoption.
The road we travel calls for our collective effort on
our priorities to make the company better and more
successful every passing year. So, on our 40th year,
I ask everyone to channel our inner spirits towards
creating the vibe and infusing positive energy at all levels
in the organization. Let’s make all of our efforts fruitful and
be grateful for them. But most importantly, let’s remember
to celebrate all of our successes every day to make the next
40 years of SPi Global fly by like a breeze.