Europe
The 2009 Shared Services Excellence Awards were presented at Shared Services Week on May 12th 2009 at the Novotel Budapest Congress Center, Hungary.
Once again the great and the good of Shared Services gathered for the annual gala dinner and awards ceremony - and were soon entertained by BBC radio and television presenter, John Humphrys. He gave the audience the opportunity to put him in the hot seat as he invited questions from the floor about his career and he reminisced about the moments that have stood out for him on his BBC radio 4 programme, Today.
With the help of a fine backing band, John introduced the awards ceremony which saw a succession of winners and honorary mentions receive the acclaim of their Shared Services peers - and, of course, the very fetching Shared Services Excellence Awards themselves. By the end of the evening the audience had greeted an array of truly worthy winners, and as the band struck up once more it was the Statoil Hydro team who took the stage for the ultimate accolade: the award for Shared Services Organisation of the year.
The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network would like to offer sincere congratulations to all the winners for 2009 and, indeed, extend this to everyone who entered, as the standards of entry this year were once again of a very high level. Roll on 2010!
And the winners were...
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Best Mature Shared Services Operation
Winner: Statoil Hydro
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Honorary Mention: SAP
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Best New Captive Shared Services Organization
Winner: Telekomunikacja Polska
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Honorary Mention: Celanese Hungary
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Best New Outsourced Shared Services Organization
Winner: WNS Global Services
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Honorary Mention: Serco
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Shared Services Organization of the Year
Winner: Statoil Hydro
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Contribution to Shared Services and Sourcing Thought Leadership
Phil Searle, Founder & Managing Director, Chazey Partners
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The Advisory Judging Panel
An objective panel of judges evaluated and scored each application. The panel contained leading experts and practitioners in the shared services field and judging organisations were excluded from submitting applications for the category they were judging. Supporting sponsors helped make the Shared Services Excellence Awards 2008 possible. In no way were they involved in determining award criteria or decisions about award winners. Supporting sponsors may not be on the Shared Services Excellence Award Advisory Judging Panel. The Shared Services Excellence Awards Judging Panel 2008:
- Patrick Arlequeeuw, Vice President Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble
- Lynda Atherton-Miles, Director, Cummins Business Services Europe
- Carl Barnes, Head of Country Accounting Centres (CAC) UK & Ireland, DHL
- Dan Foley, Business Services Centre Director, ITV
- Lisa Hooley, Director, Tetra Pak Business Services Ltd.
- Fraser Kirk, Programme Director, Coca Cola Enterprises
- Maarten Verburg, Finance Service Centre Manager, DuPont