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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Shared Services"”.
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Strategic decision making model for shared services
Shared services can be conceptualised as a consolidation of support processes scattered and duplicated all around the organisation into a new semi-autonomous unit using collaborative strategy. The aim of the organisation is to reengineer its business processes whilst improving them, and to …
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Managing outsourcing and shared services projects in accounting and finance sector
Enterprise project in outsourcing and shared services have been gaining prominence indifferent sectors globally. Outsourcing and shared services projects in accounting andfinance has been gaining momentum in the UK and most of the developed world. Withthe growth in information technology, and …
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Beyond the expectations: a citizens-oriented approach towards local shared services performance assessment
… cooperation agreements to share some of their services in a joint effort to achieve economies of scale and scope and to reduce expenses for the benefit of efficiency. Nowadays, service sharing, whether established voluntarily or forcibly, is a widespread strategy in many countries. Despite …
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Supporting the emergence of a shared services organisation: Managing change in complex health ICT projects
… project that resulted from the emergence of a shared services organisation (from two participating District Health Boards in Auckland, New Zealand). Action research (AR) formed the basis of the methodology used, and provided the foundation for a change management programme: the AR intervention. …
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Applying IT governance principles of control, coordination, and communication in a shared services technology group
… around the world. This research suggests that shared services technology groups can leverage appropriately architected IT governance practices given three primary roles played by IT governance to induce appropriate IT-related behaviors: control, coordination, and communication. Specifically, …
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An Examination of Selected Organizational Constructs That May Influence a Tri-District Model for Shared Services
… New York to conduct a Grades K-12 Regionallshared Services Feasibility Study. The study was funed via a New Jersey state grant from the Regional Efficiency Development Incentive Program (REDI) Grant Program. The study's executive summary included the objective: "To provide information to aid …
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Streamlining Information Technology Services in Local Government
… examines the outcome of the City of Toronto's Shared Services foundation project. Drawing on the lessons learned from previous shared services projects at the City, it aims to answer the question: "What factors promote or discourage shared services between a local government and its agencies?" …
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Le unioni di comuni e l'erogazione dei servizi in forma associata negli enti locali
… in a series of reforms aimed at improving public services’ efficiency and effectiveness; the objective was to provide better services to meet public needs, in a context in which the available resources are even more scarce and insufficient. Small municipalities have greater difficulties in …
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Pricing and admission control for shared computer services using the token bucket mechanism
… and analyzes token-bucket pricing schemes for shared resources. This research is motivated by the computer services industry, where services are provided mostly on a dedicated basis. However, leading computer companies such as HP and IBM forecast that external service providers will share …
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Analysis of enterprise architecture alignment : delivering system of systems solutions in response to shifting customer expectations
… the perceptions around supporting businesses and shared services, and the increase in councils and committees. The third category discusses enterprise policies focusing on the metrics used to measure the divisions. The fourth category reviews the decision making process and the culture of …
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Responding to the risk of reducing resources: development of a framework for future change programmes in English environmental health services
Environmental Health Services in the UK have been subject to significant resource reduction from 2010 to 2018. It is suggested that services risk becoming unsustainable unless efficient and effective ways of working are employed. This research explored the experience of practitioners who are …
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Structural Local Authority Collaboration in the Netherlands
… the merger of local authorities or entering into shared-services. In recent years, the Netherlands has seen key decentralisation operations in a number of policy areas (De Klerk, Gilsing, & Timmermans, 2010). These transformations and changes have put a spotlight on the optimisation of the current …
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Preferences for Alternative Educational Programming in Rural Iowa K-12 Public School Districts
… concerning the concept and rationale for shared services as an alternative educational programming option for rural schools and information concerning Iowa rural school districts involved with alternative educational programming. Eight of Iowa's fifty smallest school districts were …
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Power and organisational change: a case study
… the Corporate Centre (CC); and the creation of a Shared Services Centre (SSC), in the same location of the group headquarters and of the Chairman and majority shareholder. Clegg’s (1989) framework of ‘Circuits of Power’, based on a Foucauldian and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach, was drawn …