​Higher Education Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Conference​

2025 Sponsor

ScottMadden has been a pioneer in corporate and shared services since the practice began decades ago. Our Corporate & Shared Services practice has completed more than 1,300 projects since the early 90s, including hundreds of large, multi-year implementations. Our clients span a variety of industries from entertainment to energy to high tech. Examples of our projects include business case development, shared services design, and shared services build support and implementation.

Past Sponsor

Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering businesses and their people to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve.

Past Sponsor

NousCubane is a world-leading provider of higher education strategic planning solutions, including our flagship university benchmarking program, UniForum.

What is UniForum?

UniForum is a benchmarking solution and practice-sharing forum which analyses the efficiency and effectiveness of university administrative services across both cost and satisfaction. Our data informs real change through strategic planning and scenario modelling tools and a series of knowledge-sharing member events. Many universities in the Top 100 in international rankings are members of UniForum, including the leading universities in Canada (U15), the UK (Russell Group), Australia (Group of Eight) and New Zealand.

UniForum results are based on data and input from local units across the university, which is a critical success factor in achieving buy in to the results, and utilizes a proprietary method that compares universities on an ‘apples to apples’ basis regardless of size and research intensity.

By enabling universities to better understand how administrative roles and services are designed and delivered across the university, UniForum is a powerful workforce analytics tool which can be used to great effect in the design, set-up and continuous monitoring of the effectiveness of Shared Services functions.

Using UniForum, our member universities have repurposed up to 6% of their revenue from administration to the core mission of teaching and research. This has included successfully implementing multifunction shared service functions for core administrative and student services. These investments have enabled universities to enhance programs, make strategic research investments, attract leading faculty and significantly improve their world rankings.

We are pleased to offer select US universities and systems the opportunity to join our UniForum membership of academic institutions committed to raising the bar on performance, ranking and financial sustainability.

Past Sponsor

Oversight is the global leader in AI-powered analytics for identifying and eliminating F&A risk, and digitally transforms how large organizations analyze and mitigate their enterprise spend risk - across travel & expense, purchase card and payables entries. Oversight AI increases operational efficiency, with better outcomes.

Working across these disparate financial data sources, Oversight leverages patented and proven analytical techniques to automatically uncover potential fraud, misuse, and errors, as well as hidden risks and patterns that would lead to greater financial loss if left undetected.

Oversight helps create a culture of compliance that reduces out-of-policy spending by 70% while maximizing audit efficiency and eliminating cash leakage.

Past Sponsor

TIAA was founded in 1918 to help teachers retire with confidence. That mission grew to include those in healthcare and more, creating reliable income for their futures while they work to make a difference today. Our commitment to be the change—for our clients, associates and communities—has never wavered and it’s what motivates us to deliver lifetime income for all with investments that build a better world.