Essentials of Shared Services

∗ Learn what shared services is–and is not
∗ Implementation issues of shared services
∗ Management challenges of shared services
∗ Technical aspects of shared services, including enabling information technologies
∗ Best practices of shared services, including how to evaluate implementations
Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real–world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in shared services.
"Shared Services is a business model with which every CEO should be familiar. In today′s complex business environment, even if you′re not using shared services, you′re likely to be serving or being serviced by a company using this model. Bryan Bergeron′s book provides a solid, easily absorbed, and practical overview of shared services. It belongs on every CEO′s bookshelf."
–Aaron Kleiner
Cofounder, MIT Enterprise Forum
CFO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.

Spis treści:
Preface.
1 Overview.
2 The Corporation.
3 Shared Business Unit.
4 Process.
5 Technology.
6 Evaluation.
7 Economics.
8 Getting There.
Further Reading.
Glossary.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
BRYAN BERGERON has spent the last thirty years designing and working with computers and electronics. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and MIT, serves as Editor in Chief of e.MD and technical editor of Postgraduate Medicine, and is on the editorial boards of Healthcare Informatics and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, among others. He has authored several books on business and technology.

Okładka tylna:
∗ Learn what shared services is–and is not
∗ Implementation issues of shared services
∗ Management challenges of shared services
∗ Technical aspects of shared services, including enabling information technologies
∗ Best practices of shared services, including how to evaluate implementations
Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real–world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in shared services.
"Shared Services is a business model with which every CEO should be familiar. In today′s complex business environment, even if you′re not using shared services, you′re likely to be serving or being serviced by a company using this model. Bryan Bergeron′s book provides a solid, easily absorbed, and practical overview of shared services. It belongs on every CEO′s bookshelf."
–Aaron Kleiner
Cofounder, MIT Enterprise Forum
CFO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.