European Shared Services & Outsourcing Excellence Awards return for 2015

VICTORIA, U.K. - March 24, 2015 - PRLog -- The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network are taking final application entries for their annual European Excellence Awards this year, and Shared Service & Outsourcing practitioners have already begun applying. The application process arrives ahead of next year’s 15th Annual European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from the 19-21 May 2015, where the winners and runners-up of each award will be announced. The awards will recognise organisations that demonstrate best practices, while generating measurable results in the core competencies of Shared Services & Outsourcing.

Previous winners of the European awards include the likes of Siemens, Kimberly-Clark, Surrey County Council. When winning their award for Excellence in Culture Creation in 2011, a representative for The Co-operative Group said:

“This is a fantastic achievement for all the teams within People Services and is the culmination of the original three year plan set out in late 2008 to turn around the fortunes of the HR Shared Service operation. These awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for Shared Services and importantly encompass not only HR, but all shared service functions such as Finance & Procurement. As a result People Services are extremely proud of this achievement and look forward to more successes in the future. This is also a great achievement for the entire Co-operative Group as the business prides itself on creating an excellent culture for all our people.”

Applications are open, and will close on Friday, 27 March, 2015.

The 5 awards are detailed below:

·         Excellence in Customer Service

·         Excellence in Culture Creation

·         Excellence in People and Communications

·         Excellence in Value Creation

·         Excellence in Improvement & Innovation

For more information on applying for an award or knowing more about the 15th Annual European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, please visit http://www.ssoweek.com/awards/ or http://www.ssoweek.com/

Contact: James Llewellyn +44(0)20-7368-9732, james.llewellyn@ssonetwork.com

SOURCE Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON)