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Is 2024 a Year of GBS Reckoning? | Blog

Everest Group

The funding for business services innovation is showing signs of drying up. Investment in governance and business relationship management won’t pay off without decent processes. As enterprises find out they can’t hike prices anymore, cost has reclaimed its crown.

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Building Global Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in GBS Organizations to Drive the CEO Agenda

Everest Group

Defining a governance and engagement model between the CoE and the enterprise is paramount to ensure that those goals and strategies are communicated, carried out, and met. Setting up a CoE is the first step for a GBS to embark on excellence, but it needs to ensure that it takes the right actions to establish success.