Professional service firms can succeed financially as either "shared services" or "shared vision" firms, although shared service firms have limitations. Your question may be, "What is the difference?" ...

Back in 2010, when I was working in IT in local government, shared services were hailed as a lifeline. Councils were facing unprecedented budget cuts, austerity was biting hard and the subsidy for ...

Continuous cost pressure and the never-ending request for a higher transparency of IT services still lead companies to build corporate shared service centers (SSCs) with the aim of harmonizing and ...

Shared services often grapple with mountains of data associated with tasks which are crucial but are often repetitive and heavily reliant on data manipulation According to Gartner, 70% of ...