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Cost cutting – fine-tune your sourcing arrangements
Simon Tennant, finance transformation specialist at PA Consulting Group, discusses how, while sourcing strategies are typically seen as ways of reducing costs over the long term, substantial short term cost savings can be realised through small amendments to the current arrangements.

read the article at Sourcingfocus.com (external link) 08/12/10

Outsourcing: Robust, proven technology is the key
Simon Tennant, head of finance consulting at PA Consulting Group, argues that businesses are outsourcing financial work, to avoid having to extend or upgrade enterprise resource planning systems, or to take advantage of labour arbitrage opportunities

read the article at Sourcingfocus.com (external link) 12/11/10

Will you be a winner or a loser?
Mike Henley, Outsourcing expert at PA Consulting Group, discusses how, in the light of fundamental and permanent changes in the legal market, the greatest issue is whether legal firms and their people can accept and deliver revolutionary change.

read the article at Sourcingfocus.com (external link) 10/09/10

Shared services on the rise
Simon Tennant, head of finance consulting at PA Consulting Group, reports on how shared services centres promise greater efficiency in the Age of Austerity.

read the article at Purplecowmedia.net (external link) 17/08/10

Learning to let go
Simon Tennant Head of Finance Consulting at PA Consulting Group explores the benefits of empowering finance business partners and equipping them with business intelligence..

read the article at Sourcingfocus.com (external link) 06/08/10

Value assurance...avoiding throwing the baby out with the bath water              
Mark Raphael, Outsourcing Specialist at PA Consulting Group considers the benefits of a value assurance exercise.

read the article at Computing.co.uk (external link) 28/07/10

Waking the un-dead
Simon Tennant, head of finance consulting at PA Consulting Group, examines the role of the CFO in the zombie economy.

read the article at Conspectus.com (external link) 11/04/10

The outsourcing risk rundown
Jonathan Cooper-Bagnall, head of sourcing at PA Consulting Group, talks to sourcingfocus.com about the integration challenge of a multi-sourcing approach.

view this blog entry at sourcingfocus.com (external link) 05/02/2010

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