The design and success of shared services centres

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Borman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alignment; Design; IT platform; Shared services

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGES; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; IT PLATFORM; SHARED SERVICE; STANDARD PATTERN; TRANSACTION PROCESSING;

ALIGNMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84870629285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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