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What’s beneath all the buzz about shared services? While working with the IT leadership of a large services company, I found everyone enthusiastic about the concept of shared services. Mary, the ...

In the current economic environment, CIOs are in the crosshairs of competing demands. They are under pressure to cut IT spending even though their organizations are more reliant than ever on a growing ...

A new class of shared services providers will manage a “marketplace” of offerings, meaning big changes for employees and modernization plans. The Trump administration wants to make a concerted effort ...

The public sector is seeking ways to maintain its services and programs in today's difficult economic environment. To cope with unanticipated revenue shortfalls, mounting costs and increased service ...

Shared hosting services are popular for those on a tight budget. Plans are typically much cheaper than virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated hosting plans. By choosing one of the best shared ...

This is my third posting in a series on shared services alliances in the nonprofit sector. Too often when we talk about strategic restructuring we discuss only merger models; but there are a wide ...

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 ...

The West Australian government will decommission its shared services body, following a report from the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) which advised the state’s shared service firm to cease ...

“Shared services” is a term defining an operational philosophy that involves centralizing those administrative functions of a company that were once performed in separate divisions or locations.