Shared Services: Working Toward Greater Government Efficiency

Agencies can reduce redundancies and costs by having third-party experts handle operations that cut across the government.

Efficiency. Effectiveness. Economic Growth. People and Culture. Those are the four pillars of the President's Management Agenda to improve the way government works and delivers services. Shared services—transferring operations to a third party that handles processes or services for many units or agencies in an effort to improve delivery, reduce duplication, and sa