04/26/12Growth of Domestic and Offshore Shared Services Outpaces Traditional Outsourcing: KPMG SurveyShared services, which refers to centralizing administrative functions that were once performed in separate divisions or locations, was cited as the strongest area of growth within the Global Business Services (GBS) portfolio by over half (52 percent) of the KPMG professionals polled in the 1Q12 KPMG Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse Survey.