Meet the experts: Making the case for outsourcing in advice

'Experts have one job, just one job'

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What do Game of Thrones and financial services outsourcing have in common? Karl Dines tells all...

Any GoT fans out there? If you're not a GoT fan, that's  Game of Thrones. It's so much in the public domain not that I'm sure this isn't a spoiler, but that bit where it was revealed how Hodor got his name, I was opened mouthed, it was a brilliant piece of storytelling. He had one job, just one job and flipping HECK didn't he do well? This is definitely a cackhanded introduction to something more mundane than keeping that door closed at the end of the tunnel, which is experts within our professions. Experts have just one job, but they do it brilliantly.  Maybe 15 or so years ago it wa...

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