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, Global Research, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory In the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse survey, we polled the firms’ sourcing advisors as well as leading third-party business and IT service providers to assess the skills of typical end-user organizations around various cloud computing capabilities such as understanding the technical underpinnings [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research, KPMG 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 second in a series of blogs that will share these [...]
John Masley, Senior Manager, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Remembering fondly back to the 1980’s, I can recall wondering why everyone wasn’t driving around in the most economically priced vehicle when it was introduced, the beloved (yet now defunct) Yugo. But in outsourcing agreements as in vehicles, there’s always more to it than just [...]
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 [...]
Anne Clifford, Manager, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory For years, many businesses and analysts have incorrectly classified payroll processing as a commodity. After all, if workers are being paid on time at a cost effective price point, all’s good on the payroll front, right? Wrong, especially these days when this process, the largest spend [...]
Elizabeth Newman, Senior Advisor, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory ERP systems have the potential to deliver significant cost savings, productivity boosts and efficiency gains to public sector organizations. But their implementation is fraught with complex technological challenges, are highly disruptive in how core business processes are conducted, and are highly prone to timeline extensions [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Research, KPMG SSOA practice Jim Low, Partner, KPMG Audit practice The “Dodd-Frank Act” is not top of mind among many sourcing professionals. Officially labeled the “Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173)”, this Act was introduced in the US Senate in 2009 and signed into law in July 2010 [...]
Sanjaya Krishna, KPMG LLP Advisory Principal, Contract Compliance John Hair, KPMG LLP Advisory Director, Risk and Compliance It is critical to have control mechanisms in place to manage your organization’s social media activity—and to understand your risks in the adoption and use of this rapidly evolving business enabler. KPMG is assisting out client organizations in [...]
Noel Cullen, Principal Advisor, KPMG in the UK The recently published UK Independent Banking Commission’s (IBC) interim report has recommended that major banks separate their retail operations from higher-risk activities. Were such a requirement introduced, changes on this scale would have a significant impact on banks’ IT strategies. Change of this nature would almost certainly [...]