{"id":762,"date":"2025-10-02T03:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/tjia-paul\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:54:27","slug":"tjia-paul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/tjia-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Tjia Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPaul Tjia<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Tjia Paul\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Paul Tjia<\/b> has a background in cultural anthropology and information technology (IT). In 1995, he founded GPI Consultancy, a Dutch offshore sourcing consultancy firm. He assists clients in several areas, including offshore sourcing strategy, feasibility study, country and partner selection, offshore transition and cultural training, and promotes offshoring of IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) in The Netherlands by organizing seminars and study tours to developing countries (such as Surinam, North Korea, Nepal and South Africa). Paul is the co-author of <i>Offshoring Information Technology: Sourcing and Outsourcing to a Global Workforce<\/i> (Cambridge University Press, 2007). For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpic.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.gpic.nl<\/a>. 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