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Our articles are written by some of the best practitioners in the business, and outline their own shared services and outsourcing stories, lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and best practices. Ordered into categories by function and topic, a huge range of articles is accessible through the menu to the left. Regularly refreshed and constantly expanding, this library represents an indispensable resource for all shared services and outsourcing professionals.

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Shared Services at Sanofi-Aventis developed to help the business grow through its M&A activity. What can you learn from this?

In light of the never ending demand for greater efficiencies and cost cutting, one has to ask a fundamental, if painful, question: what is the value of human beings— and, in particular, American human beings — in our new economy?

This week’s RPO and e-Recruitment Forum 2011 (re)introduces… (drumroll)... the “Human Age”...

This week’s RPO and e-Recruitment Forum 2011 tackles Social Media as the Big Green Giant...

The BPO and shared services market employs a significant number of the younger generation with the model being to replace the host country staff that may have been carrying out for example Finance activities for 10 – 20 years. This is done through an in depth planning cycle, robust process documentation and a detailed training regime, but in order to be successful, there is a key dependency on the quality of the people...

The Post-it Note was discovered as a result of a failure. What does this teach us? That we need to give our staff the room to try new things, to innovate, without fear of failure. Empowering 3-Minute Coaching Sessions...

How do you manage the peaks and troughs of staff energy and productivity? What should you look out for? Some easy tips to avert melt-downs, recognise the “strain zone,” and build a better team...

IBM Philippines and the Board of Investments (BoI) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a training facility for a multilingual BPO workforce...

Want to move your staff onto “tier zero” resolution? Have you automated HR but are still getting too many calls? Unisys’s Nadine Hogan shares lessons learned on: ticket reviews; writing in simple English; smart partnering (in this case with Enwisen); and simply forcing the issue…...

French drugmaker Sanofi stated that it has appointed Greg Irace to the newly created role of senior vice president, global services...

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