Shared Services - Cost and Other Efficencies

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Shared services – cost and other efficiencies

Affiliated Industries GroupBusinessNZPaul Ramsay – 16 July 2015

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NZRise

“NZRise exists to represent the interests ofNew Zealand-owned

digital technology businesses.

We are passionate aboutthe New Zealand digital technology sector

and believe our industry can bea hotbed of innovation and growth.”

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Definitions

• Shared services

• Where a common service (e.g. a specific business function or process) is shared by different areas within an organisation or group

• Outsourcing

• Where that service is provided by an external provider

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Why?

• Consolidation (internal)

• Collaboration (external)

• Fundamentally about the delivery of common services• faster

• better

• cheaper

so that you can focus on your core business activities

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Service continuum

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Advocacy Policy Development Member Services Marketing / PR HR IT Accounting Legal

IN-HOUSE SHARED SERVICE OUTSOURCE

Must Have Should Have Nice to Have

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Options

• Physical

• Shared facilities

• Shared resources

• Virtual

• Shared platforms

• Shared applications

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‘As a service’ offerings

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Examples

• Member organisations

• Trade associations and industry bodies(e.g. Business NZ, Institute of IT Professionals etc)

• Sector groupings (e.g. local government, health etc)

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Where do you want to draw the line?

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Advocacy Policy Development Member Services Marketing / PR HR IT Accounting Legal

IN-HOUSE SHARED SERVICE OUTSOURCE

Must Have Should Have Nice to Have

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Injecting fresh thinking to solve tough business problems

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