Hackett: FEI TV, ''How Do You Develop a Shared Services Organization?''

  
    
  
  
    
      In this segment from the new Internet television network of Financial 
      Executives International, Senior Business Advisor Penny Weller, who 
      leads Hackett’s Finance Shared Services 
      Advisory Program, provides a 10-minute video primer on how the best 
      companies use finance shared service centers to help drive improved 
      efficiency and effectiveness.
    
    
      Key Takeaways:
    
    
      
        
          Shared Services is an internal service organization designed to gain 
          efficiencies in routine processing by leveraging common practices 
          and enabling technologies across multiple business units.
        
      
      
        
           
        
      
      
        
          Key is to treat what was once a corporate service like a whole new 
          business.
        
      
    
    
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      best practices and implementation insight from more than 4,000 
      benchmarking studies, executives use Hackett's empirically based 
      approach to quickly define and prioritize initiatives, and to leverage 
      proven strategies that enable world-class performance.
    
    
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      focused on delivering significant cash flow improvements. Hackett has 
      worked with 2,700 major corporations and government agencies, including 
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