Shared services
Shared services is an organizational entity where transactional activities are consolidated for a single or a couple of functions with the focus on process standardization, cost reduction, quality and continuous process improvement, and provides the discipline of managing the processes through metrics. As shared services mature and become multifunctional – providing both transactional and knowledge processes, having an integrated delivery network and operating as a single organization – they become a global business services organization.
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