Scale improvement and automation consistently across services and clients
In your words: “Continuous improvement and automation cannot be scaled consistently across services or clients”
- Scalable continuous improvement
- Reusable automation
- Cross-client standardisation
Improvement, RPA, workflow and analytics initiatives are developed within individual towers, locations, functions or client accounts. This becomes most visible when delivery crosses business units, regions, retained teams, providers or client accounts with different processes, measures and commercial arrangements.
A common process and insight foundation makes improvement comparable and reusable, with necessary variation kept.
Benefits spread beyond the local team, automation estates stay coherent and each new deployment starts ahead.
A common process and insight foundation makes improvement opportunities comparable and reusable while preserving necessary variation. In practical terms, services can be standardised, transitioned, measured and automated as reusable enterprise capabilities without losing required local or client controls.
- More repeatable improvement, reusable automation and faster scaling of proven practices across services and clients
- Greater standardisation and reuse
- Clearer retained and provider accountability
- Measures connected to business and customer outcomes
- Governed scaling of automation and AI
- Which improvement has delivered value in one service but failed to scale?
- How are automation candidates compared across towers or clients?
- What must be standardised before a workflow can be reused?
- Which service has the widest gap between local SLA performance and stakeholder experience?
- What variation is legally or commercially required, and what variation is simply historical?
Deloitte reports that GBS organisations are prioritising process standardisation, efficiency, cost reduction, end-to-end ownership, automation, analytics and GenAI investment.
Deloitte: Global Business Services Survey 2025
ISO explains that managed processes and their interactions support consistent results, performance evaluation and continual improvement through the process approach and PDCA cycle.
ISO: The process approach in ISO 9001