March 9, 2016
Why is money left on the table for HR Shared Service Initiatives? "The classic excuse is ineffective or inadequate change management, and that’s certainly on the list." - Jim Scully Jim Scully, Founder and President of the HR Shared Services Institute, has been entrenched in HR shared services for more than 20 years, both as a corporate executive with Georgia-Pacific Corporation and consultant. He places causes for waste in three categories: 1. Waste-for-Less models focus on performing current activities cheaper, usually through a combination of labor consolidation and geographical relocation of activities (offshoring, nearshoring, “ruralshoring,” etc.). Little attention is paid to identifying process waste, much less eliminating it. As a result, waste activities continue to be performed albeit by less expensive resources. 2. Less-Waste models are a step in the right direction. To varying levels of success, these models have…
Learning to Recognize HR Shared Services Waste
March 9, 2016
Why is money left on the table for HR Shared Service Initiatives? "The classic excuse is ineffective or inadequate change management, and that’s certainly on the list." - Jim Scully Jim Scully, Founder and President of the HR Shared Services Institute, has been entrenched in HR shared services for more than 20 years, both as a corporate executive with Georgia-Pacific Corporation and consultant. He places causes for waste in three categories: 1. Waste-for-Less models focus on performing current activities cheaper, usually through a combination of labor consolidation and geographical relocation of activities (offshoring, nearshoring, “ruralshoring,” etc.). Little attention is paid to identifying process waste, much less eliminating it. As a result, waste activities continue to be performed albeit by less expensive resources. 2. Less-Waste models are a step in the right direction. To varying levels of success, these models have…
March 7, 2016
HR Shared Services Webinar Originally recorded: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 
January 27, 2015
If you have, great! If you haven't, you could miss your chance to have your valuable thoughts and insight included in some influential findings that help to shape the landscape of HR Shared Services! Brought to you by Jim Scully and the HR Shared Services Institute, Dovetail has been a proud champion of the survey for the last few years. Since publishing the first comprehensive HR Service Delivery Practices Survey six years ago, HRSSI has continued to deliver industry-leading insights into a broad range of HR delivery practices. This is an important year for the survey as they launch their newest research project, the 2015 HR Delivery Trends Survey. This survey probes three major trends in HR service delivery: globalization of HR delivery models, HR shared services scope expansion and cloud HRMS adoption (topics very near and dear to our…