Consultancy House is a historic building in The Exchange, in downtown Dunedin, New Zealand.

It has a New Zealand Historic Places Trust grade I classification.

Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting.

Typically this refers to a company business, although state governments may also employ offshoring.

More recently, offshoring has been associated primarily with the outsourcing of technical and administrative services supporting domestic and global operations from outside the home country ("offshore outsourcing"), by means of internal (captive) or external (outsourcing) delivery models.

A company, abbreviated co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals.

Companies take various forms such as:

Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services.

It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as few resources as needed and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements.

It is concerned with managing the process that converts inputs (in the forms of raw materials, labor, and energy) into outputs (in the form of goods and/or services).

Operations management is concerned with managing the operations function in an organization.

Operations is one of the major functions in an organization along with marketing, finance and human resources.

The operations function requires management of both the strategic and day-to-day production of goods and services.

AMP is a financial services company in Australia and New Zealand with superannuation and investment products, insurance, financial advice and banking products including home loans and savings accounts.