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Over the last decade, the financial organization of Siemens has changed significantly. Following a classic bundling approach and in order to achieve economies of scale, Siemens entities all over the world started to consolidate highly repeatable, transaction-heavy accounting and finance work to an internal organization, called Global Shared Services (GSS). From these beginnings, GSS has not stopped on its path of transformation and the GSS of today barely resembles the organization of one decade ago.
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Egli, V. (2013). A Sustainable Approach to Transition Projects – Change Management. In: Keuper, F., Lueg, KE. (eds) Finance Bundling and Finance Transformation. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00373-9_21
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