The University of Michigan's Shared Services Center opened in August with the goals of combining some of the school's decentralized services into one office and cutting costs associated with those ...

Companies continue to evaluate ways of increasing their operational efficiency while providing meaningful services to their internal stakeholders. These enterprises have used a variety of strategies ...

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 ...

Somewhere in the NASA Shared Services Center at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, George Washington is hard at work. George Washington is precisely the type of team-player employee you’d want ...

Shared services are being applied to an increasing number of functions. Human resources, IT, and finance were some of the first areas where shared services commonly were implemented. Now sales ...

Every company strives to increase revenues while cutting cost. For this reason, support functions are often seen as a drain on overall profitability. In at least one key way, this shouldn’t always be ...

There are two current trends in IT with diametrically opposed points of view that are worth looking at. The first is shared services, wherein the IT organization becomes the internal service provider ...

One of the biggest differences is the ability to sustain success and stay future-ready, especially in today's disruptive environment. Developing a shared vision (exponential future) is not that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With the University’s Shared Services Center scheduled to open next year, University officials ...

There are still some issues to be addressed before everyone will be fully on board with the idea of shared services in government. But because the government is increasingly moving to the cloud, the ...

Really, they should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. Queensland Health, a state government department responsible for paying its 78,000 staff some $210 million in salaries fortnightly, ...

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 ...