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A shared services center – a center for shared services in an organization – is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks, such as accounting, human resources, payroll, IT, legal, compliance, purchasing, security. The shared services center is often a spin-off of the corporate services to separate all operational type of tasks from the corporate headquarters, which has to focus on a leadership and corporate governance type of role. As shared services centers are often cost centers, they are quite cost-sensitive also in terms of their headcount, labour costs and location selection criteria. == Overview == A shared service is an accountable entity within a multi-unit organization tasked with supplying the business unit, respective divisions and departments with specialized services (finance, HR transactions, IT services, facilities, logistics, sales transactions) on the basis of a service level agreement (SLA) with a costs charge out on basis of some type and system of transfer price.〔Strikwerda, J. (2010). Shared Service Centers II: Van kostenbesparing naar waardecreatie. Assen/ Den Haag: Van Gorcum/ Stichting Management Studies.〕 Shared service centers are deployed for a variety of ''reasons'': * to reduce costs of decentralization, to increase the quality and professionalism of support processes for the business, * to increase cost flexibility for supporting services, * to create a higher degree of strategic flexibility. Reported cost reductions of costs of services organized in shared service center are as high as 70% of the original costs, but average about 50%. Shared service centers are not to be confused with corporate staff departments. Different from staff departments, shared service centers have measurable outputs (by quantity and quality), with costs per unit of service provided. Tasks not organized in shared service centers include corporate control, corporate legal, management development policy, IT-governance and other support typical for the statutory duties of the executive board. Shared services training: Many organizations in private and public sectors use a competency-based training course to identify and fill skill gaps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shared services center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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