It has been a quiet week for
collaborative working news. However, the following items are worth
exploring…
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Local Government
The councils in Scotland have had a
number of false starts in shared services over the last few years. A barometer
of this is that the Scottish Government website for shared service best
practice all but closed in 2013. However, Aberdeen Council has put
collaborative working back on the agenda again as the cuts begin to bite…
Council leader admits Aberdeen could face cuts
Aberdeen’s council leader has raised the spectre of fresh cuts to
services as the authority faces up to a projected £50million shortfall in the
next five years. Read
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St Edmundsbury & Forest Heath
Council’s collaborative working is one of the most transparent projects
available to us. Over the last 12 months it has been publishing stats and figures
on the consequences of the collaborative working including the volume of
redundancy payouts and staff reductions…
Figures show there are nearly 300 fewer council workers in St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath compared to six years ago
The figures have been provided by St Edmundsbury Borough Council and
Forest Heath District Council following a request under the Freedom of
Information Act by the EADT. Read
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Communication, communication and
communication are the three priorities of shared service project working. If
collaborative working is 75% about the relationships and 25% about the deal,
then relationships are built on strong communication with the internal and
external stakeholders, and strong communication across the organisations…
(notice the way the partners are praised in this article)…
New year message from Chiltern District Council leader
Chiltern District Council leader Isobel Darby offers a New Year message
to readers of the BFP. Read
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ICT and Shared Services
Underpinning the success of
collaborative working is ICT. Attempts at shared services where shared ICT is
not already in place between the partners are the ones most likely to stumble.
These two articles look at ICT in relation to shared service working…
Digital Transformation Enables Expansion of Shared-Services Model
The growing use of digital
technologies—including SaaS, big data and analytics, cloud and mobile—is
enabling the shared-services model. Read more >>>
Tri-borough issues £200m telephony framework tender
Framework aims to provide networks, connectivity and PSN compliant
services to public sector bodies across Greater London area. Read
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