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Be bold and rewards will dwarf Outsourcing
Sharing Services needs to be bold enough to go beyond merely plugging together various services from differing authorities and using the ...
Is shared services the new outsourcing for local government? | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional guardian.co.uk
Jo Best talks to Hampshire county council CIO Jos Creese about how the ideal supplier for one local body could well be another...

Outsourcing : Be Honest, be proud.
I'm not sold in the idea of needing to try and manipulate peoples perceptions of outsourcing. Anything they do will be perceived as ...
Outsourcing association aims to dispel misconceptions computerweekly.com
The National Outsourcing Association (NOA) has vowed to prove doubters of outsourcing wrong through proposed research, as part of its Outsourcing Works campaign.

Not everything is ripe for outsourcing
Outsourcing companies are best at running defined, stable, commodity functions. Customer services & web sites don't fit this criteria. ...
Southwark council to bring customer services back in-house | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional guardian.co.uk
Local authority puts forward proposals to prematurely end major contract with Vangent and bring customer services back under council...

There was a period in my life recently, when I was obsessed with only two things: The first was, how do I deliver a cloud-based ICT architecture into a...

Shared Local Government Service - CapacityGRID
Discover a new way of working within the Public Sector, that encompasses shared services within the public sector.
"The only place ...
LOWERING THE COST OF HIGH PERFORMANCE capacity-grid.com
What are virtual shared services? Services that share resources and skills, not locations. Local authority teams – wherever they are – link into a common network rather than relocating to a physical shared service centre. How...

Under this government more and more data is being opened up for public use. So what?
Apart from transparently and accountability - the theory is that openness will drive performance and change.
What is the evidence that ...

Joint working article on telecare - if the costs are lower why is it so scarce in local authorities?
Steve Carefull, telecare expert at PA Consulting Group has an interesting piece in the Local Government Chronicle talking about the ...
Five steps to getting the most from telecare lgcplus.com
Telecare promises independence for vulnerable adults and lower costs for councils, so why is it still so scarce?

Shared Services within the Public Sector
Do commercial models within the public sector enable cross-departmental sharing of functions?
Do Commercial Models Work in Public Sector? sspublicsector.com

Imperatives for a New Era?
With long-term fiscal trends and demographic changes fundamentally reshaping government and education, how do we go about overcoming the ...
Shared Services in the Public Sector sspublicsector.com



shared local government services is now an open group
I am pleased to announce that, as the owner of this group, I have just switched us to an open discussion group. All future discussions ...

Having started on the operational side, as a client of recruitment services, Stephen knows only too well how quickly a bottleneck is ...
What is "Lean" HR Service ssoweek.com

Please would any local Authority workers with 5 mins to spare complete the attached survey, this will provide me with valuable data for ...
THE ROLE OF IDEAS WITHIN AN ORGANISATION surveymonkey.com
This Survey has been designed to support research into the role of "Ideas" within an organisation. For the purpose of this study, I am targetting my data collection specifically towards Local Government. In a changing...

SME's in the Public Sector
Local government has the flexibility to reach out: many councils are not constrained by a monolithic outsourcing straight-jacket; ...
Viewpoint: SMEs in the public sector - yes. Central gov't? Hmmm. | PublicTechnology.net publictechnology.net
WoodMetalGate.jpg Peter Rowlins of medium sized tech firm Methods say it's time for the SME to stop bleating and get on with the creative selling The UK public sector is a big, heterogeneous beast. This means that companies...
