Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Management Consulting KPMG recently released the results of its global 4Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey. The Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS). The learnings are gleaned from KPMG firms’ advisers, who are working closely with enterprises that are actively [...]
Marc Stark, Director, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory The Extended Global Enterprise (EGE) is the next level of maturity in global business services. In this model, leading companies are going beyond labor arbitrage and transactional processing. Instead, they’re breaking down functional silos and assembling capabilities – whether retained, outsourced, shared or distributed around the world [...]
Organizations need to understand the maturity of their service delivery capabilities so they can measure progress in improving them over time and understand how far and fast to push these improvement efforts. In addition to measuring the own internal performance and improvement levels, they ideally need to also compare themselves to their peers.
Lee Ayling, Partner, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK Would you like your service provider partners to deliver innovation in your organisation’s outsourcing contracts? The answer is probably yes. Can you define innovation? The answer is probably no. This is a scenario experienced by many managers of outsourcing contracts getting to grips with innovation. Before [...]
It’s a lot of time, resources and patience if you’re just looking for the right number. John Masley, Senior Manager, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Just about every outsourcing contract has a benchmarking clause. The threat of the word itself strikes fear in most providers. Objectively, can your business really manage the time-out, direct and indirect [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG is pleased to release the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region (RC) market findings from its 2Q11 Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse survey. These findings represent an extract from the Global 2Q11 KPMG Pulse survey, and are based on the views of our firms’ advisors that primarily [...]
Lee Ayling, Partner, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK Karene House, Principal Advisor, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK How are you driving innovation with your outsourcing providers and, if you’re a supplier of outsourced services, how are you delivering innovation for your clients? What’s working and what’s not? How do you measure its impact [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director of Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory KPMG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory (SSOA) practice’s global leadership team recently completed a tour of Asia Pacific during which it examined sourcing trends into and out of that market. This is the first in series of blogs that will share these findings and [...]
Cliff Justice, Service Network Leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG in the US If we stand back and look at our firms’ clients, and look at what they are planning in terms of business services, the market in general has clearly matured. Clients have become more sophisticated in how they design and deploy their [...]
Noel Cullen, Principal Advisor, KPMG in the UK Many business cases for shared services and outsourcing in the finance and insurance sectors overlook the substantial impact of VAT. KPMG’s experience in working with member firm clients in developing their business cases for outsourcing and shared services is that savings of 20 – 40 percent on [...]
