Category: Global Business Services

  • Time to ring-fence “Lights On Outsourcing” and focus on “Business Transformation Services”

    May 27, 2012 |

    It's high-time to segment the industry so we can all focus on delivering value, and not solely cost-cuttingRead More

  • The end of outsourcing as we know it… Part I

    May 02, 2012 |

    At the end of the day, it's not all about outsourcing and it's not all about shared services; it's about focusing on how to globalize processes, how to transform finance (and other) functions, and how to govern it all in a global business services context. There is no dominant model, it's more about achieving the right balance across all delivery models to achieve the best business goals. In conjunction with global accounting body ACCA, We spoke to 682 large organizations currently running finance in either an outsourced or shared service framework (or both) - and the results are emphatic: those organizations relying predominantly on outsourced delivery, or predominantly shared services, are viewing their finance delivery performance much more skepticallyRead More