So new Unitary
Councils are back on the table in England…
A single council in Leicestershire could save £31.4m a year, says report
A single unitary council in
Leicestershire would save over £30m a year and reduce council tax bills by
3.1%, according to a new independent report. Read more >>>
Maybe its time to dust
down the reviews of the 2009 Unitary transitions and see what lessons they
learned from that process. Mind you there was incentive money on the table then
from Gordon Brown (remember him? Nope!) - or maybe that is what the 2014 Local
Government transformation fund will be used for?
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Highway Code Updates
You should be tracking the changes to
TUPE after the 31st Jan to assess the impact it may have on your
shared services. For example, there are claims that you may be able to
harmonise T&Cs after 12 months – but don’t take that as a truth yet till
the tribunals kick in...
Acas - Transfer of undertakings (TUPE)
The TUPE
regulations ensure that when a business transfer occurs, employees moving
across to the new employer (known as the incoming employer) bring with them
their length of service and terms and conditions, and…Read more >>>
ANALYSIS: TUPE changes bring 'all change, no change'
Changes to law
governing the transfer of businesses and contracts and protection of employment
(TUPE) that took effect last Friday (31 Jan 2014) could have “potentially
wide-ranging implications for outsource partners where contracts change hands”,
a recruitment industry executive has said. Read more >>>
Legal protection diluted for
outsourced university staff
Outsourced university staff may face
inroads on their pay and conditions after legal protections were watered down,
unions have warned. Read more >>>
Also G-Cloud Computing
is beginning to gain traction as a market place for access to lower-cost SME
products and services, and as a provider of cloud based collaboration support…
Public spending on G-Cloud nears £100m
Public spending on G-Cloud nears £100m
The grand total of public sector
spending on IT purchases through the government’s G-Cloud procurement platform
nears £100m. Read more >>>
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Why do
between 50-70% of private sector collaborations and mergers fail to deliver on
the promise of the business case?
It’s not an exam question, it the academic evidence and its revisited here in this useful analysis of private sector internal finance change projects. It’s hard enough for an organisation to do change management internally. Shared services are multi-partner change management projects and that is why they are much more complex and demand big resources…
Five Reasons Why Your Finance Transformation Failed
What can we learn from the private
sector about change management? In a survey of 45 companies that completed
transformation projects, only 27 percent reaped the qualitative and
quantitative benefits outlined in their business case and sustained a majority
of the cost savings for two years post-implementation. Here are the five
reasons why... Read more >>>
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