Message-ID: <25094513.1075855874403.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:22:00 -0700 (PDT) From: brent.price@enron.com To: sally.beck@enron.com Subject: Shared Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Brent A Price X-To: Sally Beck X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Sally_Beck_Dec2000\Notes Folders\Europe X-Origin: Beck-S X-FileName: sbeck.nsf don't know if you have seen this... ---------------------- Forwarded by Brent A Price/HOU/ECT on 25/09/2000 16:21 --------------------------- From: Jeffrey A Shankman 20/09/2000 12:37 To: Brent A Price/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Shared Services fyi ---------------------- Forwarded by Jeffrey A Shankman/HOU/ECT on 09/20/2000 12:38 PM --------------------------- John Sherriff 09/20/2000 03:32 AM Sent by: Lauren Urquhart To: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey A Shankman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey McMahon/HOU/ECT@ECT, Raymond Bowen/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steve Elliott/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Matthew Scrimshaw/LON/ECT@ECT, Richard Causey/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Greg Whalley/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Michael R Brown/LON/ECT@ECT, Mark Frevert/NA/Enron@Enron, Lauren Urquhart/LON/ECT@ECT Subject: Shared Services I am asking my assistant, Lauren to set up a video conference to discuss the support services that Enron Europe is providing and how we should move forward to make these more responsive to your needs, as well as more efficient. We will have a number of classic "centralized versus decentralized" matters to resolve and I doubt if one size will fit all. Keep in mind that we have no desire to expand our empire. In fact, from our perspective if our non-commerical headcount got smaller it would be a great outcome. But the way it is has been going lately, we have been adding non-commerical headcount at a record pace at the same time that each of us is trying to massively expand our commercial business. We put a freeze on non-commerical hires earlier this week while we try and assess our space limitations and plan for the 2001 budge, so this is important that we get your perspective soon on what will work for you. Global Markets has already moved some of these services under Brent Price in Houston but there are many other services which we need to consider as well such as: IT development IT infrastructure RAC Credit Risk Management Legal Accounts Payable Tax Building Services Analyst & Associate recruiting Senior recruiting Expat services Other HR PR Governmental Relations SFA relations Finance I hate to think that we will need to form a committee to work this issue, but that is a possibility. If you have any suggestions for a process for working these issues through, please send them out to this group or bring them to our upcoming meeting. John