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Delivering cost savings through greater collaboration
...e commodity purchasing by only a few designated purchasers. Those bodies tasked with national category management will inevitably face the challenge of creating bigger and better...
473 days ago
...and ingenuity to deliver. It was delivered not least by a genuine and open engagement with corporate partners. The team were faced with a real challenge to implement new policy; addr...
178 days ago
Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...ty of Change and its Unexpected Benefits and Challenges! Tue 11:50 The...anagement Tue 12.20 The carbon challenge - Hitting targets whilst cutt...siness Wed 12:50 The transport challenges of the London Olympics and P...
170 days ago
...ure that they are being delivered well. This will involve retaining core skills and learning new ones, particularly in the commercial arena. The challenge will be for a smaller and lea...
50 days ago
...uncertainty for staff and begin focusing on how best to meet our new challenges. So we took a bold decision...his will help us respond effectively to new priorities, including the challenge of slower growth in the Euro...
50 days ago
The FIS Logo Challenge - Completed project
The FIS Logo Challenge was created after the DWP Idea Street website asked if we could find a new logo for the DWP Fraud Investigation Service for exclusive use on their websit...
170 days ago
Case Management: Recovering from Information Overload
...alties” within the organization. For me, I believe that there are emergent initiatives and technologies which are growing to address this challenge, such as “Adaptive Case...
225 days ago
McCluggage discusses progress on government ICT strategy
...ernment-wide voice and data network, and the G-Cloud, a shared public sector cloud computing infrastructure. When asked how best to overcome the challenge of integrating these and simi...
46 days ago
Govt acknowledges staff retention challenge as research shows pay gap for senior managers
The government shares MPs concerns about the need to “retain a suitable cadre of internet specialists” at GCHQ, according to its official response to the joint in...
106 days ago
Officials must fulfil their duty to challenge poor policies This newspaper has for...rs and special advisers weren’t adequately challenged on flawed ideas, leaving off...he early months of the coalition. The bigger challenge now is to recognise that some...
10 hours ago
...re easily.Finally, officials’ risk aversion must be overcome. These challenges may sound like another set o...work.Third, engage and empower the workforce. Strong leadership will challenge norms to encourage goal-drive...
3 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...t’s not even the end of the challenges.Ask the new head of the civi...ry’s facing a huge range of challenges at the moment, and our job a...achieved, is to speak up and challenge that,” he replies. Nonethel...nd itself facing a new set of challenges – and it’s at that point...
2 days ago
...stsBenita’s second task, of course, will be to shake off the anonymity of the civil service and start building a public profile. “My biggest challenge over the next few weeks, with...
8 days ago
International economic challenges and public service strategies w...rove useful in addressing future challenges. And after the event, he tol...change element [to the economic challenges]. The presentation brought t...nt secretaries to consider major challenges that Canada might face in th...
44 days ago
...lt a bit sensitive about it, but we were able to say: ‘Yes, there are some examples of where people have performed really excellently, but the challenge is to do that across the boar...
58 days ago
...that information strategy you can’t have a technology strategy.” Challenges to adoptionWhile these trend...Lay noted that slow decision-making and procurement creates another challenge. “The cycle around policy d...
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Round table: Challenges of mutualisation
...y risks. Ben Willis reports on a round table discussion exploring the challenges of mutualisation. As part o...day, outsourcing.”Some participants pointed out that it might be a challenge to tempt staff towards mutual...
99 days ago
The coalition special advisers
...ior civil servant who works with them says they have already built good relationships within the department. Both, he says, are “not afraid to challenge the secretary of state based...
176 days ago
Ministry of Justice: non-executive driectors
...very important for non-executives to leave the decision-making on those areas to the permanent secretary. They can advise, scrutinise, oversee, challenge, but they shouldn’t decide...
176 days ago
...ion of funding restrictions and high expectations means that public sector organisations are having to achieve Better for Less. To overcome this challenge, we know those organisations...
80 days ago
GWC Illustrator Challenge - Sushil Shrestha
The Get Writing Challenge was launched in 2010 and sought to find the best writing talent the civil...for release in November 2011. Alongside the GWC we also launched another challenge to find illustrators for the...
170 days ago
GWC Illustrator Challenge - Sushil Shrestha 2
The Get Writing Challenge was launched in 2010 and sought to find the best writing talent the civi...or release in November 2011. Alongside the GWC we also launched another challenge to find illustrators for the...
170 days ago
Civil Service Physical Activity Challenge
...l service-wide Physical Activity Challenge inspired by the London Olympi...ir Gus O’Donnell announced the Challenge at Civil Service Live on 7th...the country. Specifically, the challenge is for each organisation to m...n September 2012. What is the Challenge? How can we benefit? What s...
140 days ago
Department for Work and Pensions Lean way
...d that Lean was the most sensible approach to achieve: a higher level of customer service improved people skills the departments efficiency challenge To find out more about...
23 days ago
Welcome to the Civil Service Challenge 2010 in association with Visa Who should win the Civil Service Challenge? - You can help us decide... (If you cannot see the video above it may because your IT is blocking the video. Please alert your IT department of th...
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352 days ago
Civil Service Challenge - Plymouth
The Team Barry Bullis, HM Revenue & CustomsAndrea Skelton, HM Revenue & Customs Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Department for Work and Pensions Rachel Onikosi, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Their Scores Attendance at presentation: 22 Pledges to meet apprent...
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932 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...i-theme-font:minor-latin;} Michael – You are so right to challenge us on the need to look after...cks resulting in changing of awards.” This type of performance challenged me, about 3 years ago, to th...851 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...is the nub of Systems Thinking in the Public Sector - the failure of the reform regime.... and a manifesto for a better way -, which will surely challenge all politicians and policy ma...850 days ago
