Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG Management Consulting KPMG recently conducted a global poll of its firms’ professionals to assess what they view as the top market trends that will impact their clients in 2012. This poll canvassed professionals from the firms’ Management Consulting, Risk Consulting, Audit, and Tax service groups. KPMG discussed some of [...]
Rick Bertheaud, Principal, KPMG Management Consulting High-performing shared services organizations go well beyond the basic value proposition of efficiency and effectiveness. They focus on customer relationship management (CRM) to improve their strategic relevance, deliver long-term value and elevate the shared services brand. But CRM is just the beginning. The next step is to evolve from [...]
Anna Marie Detert, Director, People & Change, KPMG in the UK The creation and operation of a shared service centre is a significant investment for an organisation, yet the way staff are managed and motivated often reveals opportunities to increase their value, whether located on or offshore. While companies may have sophisticated human resource strategies [...]
Dwayne Prosko, Director, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory As CFOs are increasingly chartered with identifying cost savings opportunities without undermining the core finance and accounting (F&A) function, and helping move the company forward while driving revenue growth, a growing number of leading organizations are adopting strategies that leverage a global footprint combined with an [...]
Jonathan Burr, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK Back office functions, such as Information Technology, Human Resources and Finance and Accounting, have executed complex and innovative strategies to deliver cost savings and improved service levels which seem commonplace today. With improved efficiency having already been achieved through activities such as the creation of shared service [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Often buyers have viewed global sourcing as a series of discrete options and capabilities (e.g., internal services, shared services, offshore captives, business process outsourcing and information technology outsourcing (ITO)) rather than a continuum of integrated service models. This is similar to the legacy perspective of viewing [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Advisory Research Cliff Justice, US National Leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory On Tuesday, February 22, KPMG LLP (US), KPMG Holdings Limited (UK) and KPMG International announced an agreement to acquire the business and subsidiaries of EquaTerra Inc. This combination creates a global shared services and sourcing advisory offering that is aligned [...]
Pam Peters, Advisor and Project Director, EquaTerra Human Resources (HR) Practice A “Top 10” label, when applied to business process outsourcing (BPO), assumes a heightened expectation around the level of quality, expertise and technology. The issue is that most of these listings tend to be one dimensional when it comes to the basis of the [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, EquaTerra Global Research interviews Carl-Henrik Hallström, EquaTerra’s Regional Director, The Nordic Region, to get his thoughts on the results of the 2010 edition of the Nordic Service Provider Performance and Satisfaction study. Stan Lepeak: How would you characterise the current IT outsourcing market in the Nordics? Is it being positively or [...]
Bob Cecil, Executive Director, Business and Financial Processes Advisory My last blog – Shared Services: Nexus for Cost Realignment or Exporter of Value?– focused on a Blue Sky Innovation Room session at last month’s Shared Services Week conference on how shared services is perceived, versus how it would like to be perceived by the company [...]
