Tuesday Apr 02, 2013  Shared Service Costs: Are They Adding or
Destroying Company Value?  Recently, Oracle published a very
interesting podcast on shared service costs and whether shared
services were adding or destroying company value. The
information provided was extremely enlightening.  I had the
pleasure of interviewing Bart Stoehr, Senior Product Management
Director for Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management
(HPCM), and Tom Gargas, a Principal Solutions Manager from
Edgewater-Ranzal, an Oracle Partner. Here, I will summarize a
few of the key points from the interview.   According to Bart,
shared services are really a concentration of company resources
performing like activities, but they are spread out across the
organization to service multiple, internal partners at a lower
cost and providing higher levels of service. Most organizations
have shared services, but often do not understand the value that
they add to a company or the value that they can destroy. What
are the goals for shared servi