Global Business Services & Sourcing
“Global business services” is rapidly becoming one of the most popular base strategies for digital transformation for a very important reason.
We support organizations on end-to-end journeys to develop their global business-services and -sourcing programs, including shared-services strategy, setup, scale-up, and shared-services transformation through next-generation digital and analytics solutions.
“Global business services” is rapidly becoming one of the most popular base strategies for digital transformation for a very important reason.
Design shared-services and sourcing strategies
Implement shared-services and sourcing strategies
Transform shared-services operations
Build capabilities
Develop an organization’s capabilities to ensure sustainable and long-lasting impact, enabling transformations to achieve their full potential and delivering education and training through customized programs to achieve organization-specific objectives
30–70%
productivity increase
>20%
increase in stakeholder satisfaction
>100
shared-services and functional experts
Restructuring a Middle Eastern shared-services entity
We launched targeted initiatives to design an entity that could support the sustained growth the provider sought over the midterm. Initiatives included sourcing at-scale capabilities at an 85 percent lower cost, institutionalizing practices (such as career-path mapping, lean process design, and capacity planning), and revamping board governance.
Implementing global business services at scale for an industrial-engineering global leader
We implemented global business services at scale for an industrial-engineering global leader, delivering $80 million to $90 million in savings and affecting more than 4,000 full-time equivalents. Execution of the implementation program occurred over approximately 24 months, including more than 12 months of support by McKinsey and a third-party implementation partner in a build-operate-transfer model.
Scaling up, merging, and spinning off a global shared-services network
We helped a global materials-and-agricultural company set and achieve bold aspirations for integrating more than ten centers and splitting into two independent organizations. We undertook this process while significantly scaling up the company’s operations and enabling efficiency improvements of 20 percent to support significant synergy creation.
FEATURED CAPABILITIES
Global business services academy: Our program offers capability building and training for shared-services leaders and their top talent-team members.
Global business services playbook: Our comprehensive guide helps organizations set up, scale, and transform shared services. It has more than 30 modules and guides a structured, step-by-step journey.
Global Business Services 360: Our complete diagnostic-to-implementation tool drives world-class service operations. It assesses performance and compares it with internal and external benchmarks to diagnose performance gaps. It uses industry best practices and experts to design customized solutions and to capture value in pilots and subsequent waves.
Locations-360: Our framework evaluates readiness of a country or city of interest for global sourcing by pinpointing gaps to help define entry strategies (for companies) and policy interventions (for governments).
Digital back office: Our comprehensive framework accelerates value in shared-services and service-operations environments. The approach focuses on three dimensions of value: automation to eliminate manual work and release capacity, analytics to leverage the power of data through applicable use cases, and innovation to build new service lines and capabilities.
