Thank you to all those who fed back on
Alasdair’s analysis of the LGA Shared Services Map last week. If you missed it,
click here to look at what the LGA map is really saying.
One of our students on the Postgraduate
Certificate in Shared Services, who is based
in a Kent Council, quite rightly corrected me for my error when I wrote that, “Where
we have not taught the SS(PRAC) programme, for example in the South East, South
West and North East, there are much smaller numbers of collaborations on the
LGA map” . It should have read, “Where we have not taught the SS(PRAC)
programme to hundreds of students, for example…”. Kent Connects has funded over
20 people through the programme in Kent, so to them I apologise.
However, my apology is a good way to
promote the free, Friday 27th June, Collaborative
Transformation Conference in Kent, hosted by Canterbury Christ
Church University Business School in
collaboration with Kent Connects and ourselves. The conference is highly practitioner
focused and the majority of speakers are recognised Shared Service Architects
and graduates of the postgraduate certificate who have been delivering on the
frontline of collaborative working. So why not come down to beautiful
Canterbury on the Friday for the conference, and stay in the city for the rest of
the weekend?
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Private Sector Collaborations
One of the most quoted stats in
collaborative working is that in the private sector, between 50 to 70% of
mergers and shared services fail to deliver on the promise of the business
case, or promised shareholder value. The BBC pick this theme up in this
article…
When firms get together: The secret of success
When two people decide to get
married, they vow to stick together - "for better, for worse, for richer,
for poorer". Basically, as those vows acknowledge, marriage is tough and
it takes two to make a partnership work. When it comes to company mergers it's
no different. Read
more >>>
It evidences that the collaboration
skills we teach in the public sector are just as applicable in the private
sector too.
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Further/Higher Education
This is a helpful Guardian article, from a firm of solicitors punting for work in the world of HE shared services. But what grabbed my attention was the statement, “In 2014, with institutions having to respond to a further 3% reduction in funding…” – Only 3%? Don’t bother going through the trauma of sharing if you only want to save 3%. However, don’t let that put you off the article, it is still a good scan...
Shared services: a brave new world?
Shared services are high up the agenda across the higher education sector. In 2013, Universities UK's modernisation task force identified "millions" of possible savings. Read more >>>
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Local Government
The LGA review of Forest Heath and St.
Edmundsbury councils’ collaborative working makes good reading for Shared Service Architects working at a strategic level. We follow Forest & St.
Eds. work closely as they put almost 50 of their senior staff through the SS(PRAC) programme in 2011/12 and have
been using the SSA toolboxes as part of the success of their collaborative
working…
Shared services working in West Suffolk says peer review
The shared service arrangement between Forest Heath District Council
and St Edmundsbury Borough Council has put the two authorities in a better
financial position than most, according to a peer review. Read
more >>>
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Blue Light Services
Kent and Essex Police are one of the
leading exponents of collaborative activity in the emergency services and here
they are again, blurring the boundaries of regional policing…
ACC appointed to lead joint organised crime directorate
One of the largest specialist organisations for dealing with
serious and organised crime in the country will come under new leadership, it
has been announced. Read
more >>>
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Collaborative Leadership
The US public sector is leading on the application of collaborative leadership to solve their budget cut problems. This next article very much reflects the content of our new Harnessing Collaborative Leadership Across Communities session that is being adopted widely across the UK public sector….
The US public sector is leading on the application of collaborative leadership to solve their budget cut problems. This next article very much reflects the content of our new Harnessing Collaborative Leadership Across Communities session that is being adopted widely across the UK public sector….
Only collaborative leadership can make communities succeed
Strong political leadership and good managerial leadership do not have to be mutually exclusive aims. Read more >>>
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