Agenda: Shared Services Consolidation Strategy Workshop

two-day workshop to clearly define who does what, how corporate policies will be set, and a consolidation strategy (if appropriate)

The business-within-a-business paradigm, and its implications for deciding who does what
The four jobs of the corporate provider
- Full-service provider to corporate clients
- Exclusive provider of a "short list" of products/services, and outsourcing vendor of choice for the rest (selling through business-unit providers)
- Exclusive facilitator of decisions by consensus on corporatewide standards/policies/plans, and optionally provider of facilitation (not decision making) services to decentralized groups for business-unit standards/policies/plans at their invitation
- Spokesperson for the profession corporatewide
Facilitated decision making based on the Principle-based Organizational Structure Building Blocks
framework of products/services:
- The exclusive-provider short list (Service Providers, Engineers)
- Corporatewide standards/policies/plans (Coordinators)
Implementation and communications plan.