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The Future of GBS: Four Shifts Leaders Can't Ignore
The Global Business Services (GBS) industry is entering a new era. During a recent webinar hosted by SSON Research & Analytics and featuring APEX GBS Standards
How GBS Can Win a Transformation It Doesn't Fully Control
This report argues that closing this gap requires three deliberate moves: elevating the Global Process Owner (GPO) role from advisory coordinator to empowered
Country Insight Reports for Regional Development
Showcase your country to 200,000+ shared services & GBS leaders with SSON's Country Insight Reports.
Financial leakage: How AI has made the recovery audit redundant
Every year, enterprises lose billions to financial leakage in Accounts Payable. Duplicate payments, missed credit notes, invoice errors and fraud slip...
From Executing Process to Managing Outcomes: The Agentic AI-enabled Future
GBS are rapidly evolving as IA, Generative AI, and now Agentic AI expand what can be digitized and transformed
GBS by the Numbers: Why Many Leaders Stay Lean – and Some Scale Big
The distribution shows that most leading GBS organizations operate with a relatively lean captive footprint
The R2R Efficiency Mirage
For years, finance teams have invested in close management tools believing they were automating the close. This research tells a different story.
SSON Research & Analytics' 2026 Subscription Guide
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Business Process Outsourcing in 2026: Shifting Expectations
The outsourcing landscape in 2026 stands at a profound point of inflection. For nearly three decades, Shared Services and Global Business Services (GBS) organiz
We’ve Only Just Begun: What the Data Signals for the Next Era of Global Business Services
January is not about reflection. It's about direction.
Every year, SSON Research & Analytics publishes the State of the Shared Services & Outsourcing Industry
2026 Benchmarking Report
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State of the Shared Services and Outsourcing Industry 2026 Global Market Report
Shared services and global business services are entering a new phase of maturity defined by the ability to deliver measurable enterprise value
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