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| | Share & Share Alike- CIO Magazine May 15, 1997 |
 | | Because Tenneco communicated openly about shared services from the start and continues to through a quarterly employees newsletter "Serviceline," which updates TBS progress, the company was able to avoid a lot of the turf wars common in shared services initiatives, McKemie says, but there remain challenges. |
 | | Shared services works best when a company's business units have the option of outsourcing, says Leland I. Forst, CEO of The Amherst Group Ltd., a Greenwich, Conn., shared services consultancy that has specialized in shared services since 1991. |
 | | Such is the quandary of implementing shared services: In theory, no one can argue with the benefits of consolidating common functions; in reality, you're talking about changing organizations and processes that people embrace even more dearly when they feel threatened. |
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