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While costs remain one of the main reasons companies create shared-services organizations, a recent study found more strategic benefits resulting from such decisions. HR, in comparison to IT and finance, still lags in leveraging the shared-services model, but is seeing some increased use. According to Hackett HR Practice Leader Stephen Joyce, the real value of HR shared services moves beyond simple cost reduction and addresses issues such as customer satisfaction, effectiveness, and service. Click Here to Link to Full Text of Article or visit the following URL: http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=55310104 About The Hackett Group The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: ANSR), a global strategic advisory firm, is a leader in best practice advisory, benchmarking, and transformation consulting services, including shared services, offshoring and outsourcing advice. Utilizing best practices and implementation insights from more than 4,000 benchmarking engagements, executives use Hackett's empirically based approach to quickly define and prioritize initiatives to enable world-class performance. Through its REL brand, Hackett offers working capital solutions focused on delivering significant cash flow improvements. Through its Hackett Technology Solutions group, Hackett offers business application consulting services that helps maximize returns on IT investments. Hackett has worked with 2,700 major corporations and government agencies, including 97% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 73% of the Fortune 100, 73% of the DAX 30 and 45% of the FTSE 100. Founded in 1991, The Hackett Group was acquired by Answerthink, which was renamed The Hackett Group in 2008. The Hackett Group has global offices in the United States, Europe and India. More information on The Hackett Group is available: by phone at (770) 225-7300; by e-mail at info@thehackettgroup.com; or on the Web at www.thehackettgroup.com.