Project Consulting Group (PCG), one of the nation's fastest growing companies providing innovative and comprehensive project and portfolio management services, announces its findings show that a shared services approach to IT implementations drives increased collaboration, efficiency and growth.
Shared services require a user-focused approach to providing IT solutions to internal business units. This drives efficiencies, roots out redundancies and gives organizations the flexibility to determine creative sourcing options for delivering IT services. PCG sees a resurgence of shared services as a transformational approach to drive efficiencies.
The concept has been around a long time and yet shared services still present adoption challenges. Many companies whose multiple divisions display allegiance to their own systems struggle with change for improvements.
"It has proven to be advantageous to bring in an outside firm that has a solid track record in developing and sustaining the processes as well as one that understands how to overcome the cultural barriers that can impede a successful implementation," said Greg McGrane, Project Consulting Group Co-Founder and Co-Chairman.
IT in a shared services model acts like a vendor to the enterprise. It brings centralization, opportunities for best practice standards, elimination of redundancies, and the ability to choose various sourcing options that are often leveraged by more than one business unit. Business units can be charged based on usage or subscription for services. The shared services model also offers flexible delivery as well as transparency in costs and value. There continues to be a high level of interest by companies today to develop a culture of sustainable high performance and leadership as part of their project management efforts.
According to PCG Co-founder and Co-Chairman Jamie Fragola, "Savvy IT leaders realize that business processes and software are only as good as the people who manage and use the systems. Productivity and efficiencies are gained when people embrace the processes, recognize their value to the business and really become an integral part of the enterprise through a consistent philosophy of high performance."
About Project Consulting Group
Project Consulting Group (PCG), based in Minneapolis, is a pioneer in developing low-risk, high-return deployment strategies to help clients reach their goal of improved decision making at the project, program, and portfolio level. Its Project Delivery On-Demand solution is a comprehensive service model that delivers a proven framework to integrate and assimilate people, process, technology and culture, helping organizations achieve faster performance results and a competitive advantage in their ability to execute.
A longstanding partner of The Project Management Institute (PMI), PCG has one of the highest percentages of PMP certified staff of any consultancy in the nation. Our consultants have spoken at conferences around the world, and helped to rewrite the international project management certification standards on behalf of PMI. PCG was awarded the 2010 Kinetic Process Innovation Award for IT Consulting presented by High Tech Views, an online publication that spotlights technology innovation. For more information visit: www.projectconsultinggroup.com
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