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Shared Services and GBS

Shared services and GBS organisations run the same process differently in every business unit, region or client they serve, and meeting an SLA does not mean anyone can explain why an outcome was poor. IGX360 Insights gives shared services leaders a standardised, evidenced view of process performance across the whole estate, so improvement and automation decisions are based on what is actually happening, not on what each site reports.

16 problems for Shared Services and GBS

We do not know how work really happens

  • Process discovery
  • Current-state mapping
  • Operating baseline

The documented process is an opinion rather than an operational truth. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed, connected and queryable representation of the operating model.

Work is managed through email, spreadsheets and chasing

  • Workflow automation
  • Digital workflow
  • Manual-work elimination

Status, responsibility and deadlines are not reliably visible; hand-offs depend on memory. The underlying weakness is the absence of a controlled connection between process design, executable work, decision rights and runtime evidence.

Process knowledge, controls and accountability are lost during transition or migration

  • Transition knowledge retention
  • BPO/shared-service migration
  • Control continuity

Transition documentation captures tasks and volumes but does not preserve the full process context, exceptions, controls, dependencies and decision knowledge. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed end-to-end service model separating global standards from justified variation and linking accountability to business outcomes.

We meet the SLA but still cannot explain poor outcomes or customer experience

  • SLA-to-outcome traceability
  • Customer experience measurement
  • End-to-end performance

Measures show whether a threshold was met but do not explain end-to-end delay, failure demand, rework or the customer’s actual outcome. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed end-to-end service model separating global standards from justified variation and linking accountability to business outcomes.

AI is entering service delivery faster than governance, commercial measures and accountability can adapt

  • AI governance in BPO
  • Commercial accountability
  • Agentic service delivery

Authority, human oversight, evidence, pricing, service measures and responsibility for agent decisions are not defined coherently. The underlying weakness is the absence of a governed end-to-end service model separating global standards from justified variation and linking accountability to business outcomes.