Commercial Structures
A shared service can take a variety of different commercial structures. The basic commercial structures include:
- Unitary
- A single organization consolidating and centralising a business service
- Lead department: An organization consolidating and centralizing a business service that will be shared by other organizations
- Joint initiatives
- Agreement between two or more organizations to set up and operate shared services
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