Successful Shared Administrative Service Models: One Solution to Margin Problems

November 8, 2010

The presentation, Successful Shared Administrative Service Models: One Solution to Margin Problems, was given by John Talbot, Ph.D., executive vice president of OPEN MINDS, at the New Jersey Association of Community Providers Annual Conference in November 2010. He described business pressures that encourage organizations to share administrative services and the variety of arrangements available. He emphasized that sharing administrative services with another organization could help to cut administrative costs for both, improving their sustainability without decreasing services or consumer outcomes. The goal of sharing administrative services is to reduce costs by creating economies of scale that . . .