Standing up a shared-services model across four business units

31% reduction in duplicated back-office headcount
Standing up a shared-services model across four business units

The technical design for a shared-services model is the easy part — the hard part is that every business unit head believes their function is the exception that shouldn’t consolidate. We ran the transition unit by unit, starting with the one whose leader was already frustrated with their own back-office costs, and let the early win change the conversation with the other three.

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