those administrative, technical and managerial services which are to be shared across the three StHAs in the North West. One StHA will employ and host staff but the service will be provided to all three, e.g., high secure commissioning, analytical services, medicines management
A whole-of-Government approach to corporate services delivery involving the consolidation of corporate services across Government into five large scale and two smaller scale shared service providers and a technology centre of skill.
Computing services (portals, directory, identity, e-mail, instant messaging, calendaring and Web services) that are shared via an Internet-based, enterprise-wide infrastructure.
Services that are delivered to more than one site identified in an application as participating in the use of such services. For example, telephone service used by all of the schools in a district would be considered a shared service. E-rate discounts for these services are based on average or aggregate discount rates.
Shared services is the outsourcing of a business function within an enterprise to a highly skilled internal department or group. For example, the purchasing department at one plant may provide purchasing services to all other plants within a given manufacturing company. Shared services may also be provided to third parties.
The consolidation of related functions and integration of the processes involved with them throughout an entire organization.
A method of increasing the efficiency of services used in common by multiple organizations, by separating them from their original organizations, centralizing and integrating them.
Shared Services are the convergence and streamlining of an organisation’s functions to ensure that they deliver the organisation the services required of them as effectively and efficiently as possible. This often involves the centralising of back office functions such as HR and Finance but can also be applied to the middle or front offices. A key advantage of this convergence is that it enables the appreciation of economies of scale within the function and can enable multi function working (e.g. linking HR and Finance together, where there is the potential to create synergies).
