A new class of shared services providers will manage a “marketplace” of offerings, meaning big changes for employees and modernization plans. The Trump administration wants to make a concerted effort ...

Novelist William Gibson once said, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” This has been the state of shared services in the federal government during the past 15 years. Is ...

What’s beneath all the buzz about shared services? While working with the IT leadership of a large services company, I found everyone enthusiastic about the concept of shared services. Mary, the ...

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The Federal Chief Information Officers Council released Tuesday a shared services implementation guide that builds on the shared services strategy released almost a year ago. The CIO Council report, ...

In the current economic environment, CIOs are in the crosshairs of competing demands. They are under pressure to cut IT spending even though their organizations are more reliant than ever on a growing ...

There has been so much discussion about the push to merge nonprofits, that I thought it be good to shift the focus to another form of strategic integration: Shared Service Alliances, or what some ...

Are shared IT services for municipalities a good deal? What are the risks and do they really save money or will you be stuck with a nightmare scenario from which you can never extricate your ...

Shared hosting services are popular for those on a tight budget. Plans are typically much cheaper than virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated hosting plans. By choosing one of the best shared ...

I announced in May 2010 that I would be writing a series on nonprofit back-office integrations or what these organizations refer to as Shared Service Alliances. In my first posting on this topic I ...