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Shared service optimization – what is it and how do you achieve it?

PA’s new shared services optimization tool will help you understand your options and meet your ambitions in shared services.

Our research indicates that over the next five years, 94% of companies* plan to improve or extend the remit of their shared services, even though many are unclear as to which of the many options for maximizing shared services is most suitable for their own situation.

PA’s shared services optimization tool uses fact-based insight and benchmarking data to examine the key elements of shared services, helping organizations to: 

• set and communicate a coherent strategy
• optimize the sourcing mix
• leverage the shared services investment, enhancing the return on investment
• make the value delivered by shared services transparent
• attract and manage talent.

We provide fact-based insight into your strengths and weaknesses – showing you where you are already out-performing others in the market and where there is scope to improve.

PA helps organizations achieve their ambition in shared services. 

For further information on PA’s shared services optimization tool please contact us at sharedservices@paconsulting.com  

* 'Shared services centres: delivering the promise', PA Consulting Group, 2007.