Resourcing
With the planning completed, ensuring that adequate resources for achieving the desired outcome is essential.
Engaging with partners, citizens, communities
Strategic sourcing of your ICT services
Increasingly councils are recognising that the options for sourcing ICT resources and services are much wider than the traditional in-source/outsource solutions. Even a few years ago, outsourcing had developed from straightforward “break/fix” contracts for supporting the status quo, into strategic partnerships which were designed to achieve a strategic/innovative approach to business improvement exploiting ICT. Some of these strategic partnerships worked well, but in many cases, councils struggled to break away from the traditional way of thinking of the client/contractor model, and hence found it difficult to engage meaningfully in a truly strategic partnership.
How good is your ICT service?
Does your ICT service deliver value for money? Does it enable and support change in the organisation? Is it efficiently run? Is it pro-active in seeking out the most appropriate technical solutions to meet business needs? And how can you tell?
G-Cloud and G-AS utility computing
Cloud computing has been touted as the model for the future for some time. The recent launch of the government's new ICT strategy sees Cloud (or 'utility') computing finally become a practical and indeed essential approach for public sector organisations.
Learning
In an effort to make “Learning” more focused on the specific needs of our membership, we have reviewed our course offerings and launched a completely new programme for the next 12 months. The new programme offers a wider range of course, at more locations, and with more detail provided on each, to help you judge better who to nominate for the course, and the likely benefits to be achieved from it.
