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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.

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  | Tags: Applications focused on business need, Baseline performance information, Benchmarking, Benefits realisation, Business continuity, Business process improvement, Capacity to deliver, Change management, Cloud computing, Commissioning and managing services, Configuration based on lean systems, Continuous improvement, Corporate CRMS, Corporate wide ERDMS, Customer service strategies, Enterprise resource planning, Environment, Governance, Home and smart working strategy, ICT and information management strategies, Information architectures, Information assurance, Information audit, Information sharing, Integration front to back, KPIs, Leadership, Lean systems, Mobile working technologies, Performance management, Project and programme management, Shared services approaches, Skills management, Strategy to implement vision, Transactional web and intranet, Understanding customer needs, Vision for the future, Willing to change, Willingness to partner, Workflow systems

Project and programme management

"Needs particular methods and tools embedded in corporate culture. Corporate standard and programme support office also in place"

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Council of the Future

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  | Tags: Applications focused on business need, Baseline performance information, Benchmarking, Benefits realisation, Business continuity, Business process improvement, Capacity to deliver, Change management, Cloud computing, Commissioning and managing services, Configuration based on lean systems, Continuous improvement, Corporate CRMS, Corporate wide ERDMS, Customer service strategies, Enterprise resource planning, Environment, Governance, Home and smart working strategy, ICT and information management strategies, Information architectures, Information assurance, Information audit, Information sharing, Integration front to back, KPIs, Leadership, Lean systems, Mobile working technologies, Performance management, Project and programme management, Shared services approaches, Skills management, Strategy to implement vision, Transactional web and intranet, Understanding customer needs, Vision for the future, Willing to change, Willingness to partner, Workflow systems

Social services application procurement

Client name: 
London Borough of Waltham Forest

The project issues
The London Borough of Waltham Forest undertook a major change management programme, a crucial element of which was the procurement of a new computer system for its social services department. Capturing the requirements for the new system, articulating and verifying them effectively and writing the procurement specification needed due care and diligence.

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  | Tags: Applications focused on business need, London, London borough, Project and programme management, Procurement and implementation support, Project and programme management

Social Services system replacement and business process re-engineering

Client name: 
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

The project issues
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (WMBC) was rated 'poor' in its CPA in 2003, with Social Services being particularly referenced along with some other areas of the Council's work. At the time, the Council was already part way through a procurement process to replace its legacy mainframe-based client index system, seeking to obtain a system which would better serve the needs of practitioners and managers in their day to day work.

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  | Tags: Business process improvement, Change management, Configuration based on lean systems, Lean systems, Metropolitan districts, Project and programme management, West Midlands, Business improvement/lean systems, Change management/culture change, Procurement and implementation support, Project and programme management

Project management benefits realisation

Client name: 
Vale of Glamorgan Council
Managers at the Vale of Glamorgan Council now have a clearer focus on achieving benefits from service delivery improvement projects thanks to expert advice from Socitm Consulting on project management. By facilitating a tailor-made workshop on pragmatic approaches to project management, Socitm Consulting has helped the Council to achieve immediate improvements to project delivery, and provided a framework for reviewing and improving project management techniques in the future.
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  | Tags: Benefits realisation, Project and programme management, Wales, Welsh unitaries, Benefits realisation, Project and programme management

Building Schools for the Future programme support

Client name: 
South Tyneside & Gateshead Councils (STaG)

The project issues
South Tyneside and Gateshead Councils are the sole remaining partnership scheme in Wave 1 of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.  Uniquely the scheme also includes the local PCT as part of the proposed Local Education Partnership (LEP).

A major challenge for the programme was the very different nature of the current ICT arrangements across the scheme and the phasing and different size of the scheme in the two authorities.

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  | Tags: North East, Project and programme management, BSF Support, Project and programme management

Building Schools for the Future programme support

Client name: 
Solihull MBC

The project issues
Solihull had been selected as a Wave 1 authority for the BSF programme.  Due to its unique circumstances the authority had decided not to set up a Local Education Partnership (LEP).

This required a different approach to the procurement of the programme and the need to consider how the authority would ensure that ICT was fully integrated with the new school building designs.

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  | Tags: Metropolitan districts, Project and programme management, West Midlands, BSF Support, Project and programme management

Children’s services information sharing project management

Client name: 
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council has begun the transfer of core pupil data from all Sefton schools to the Council’s Children’s Services department as part of the implementation of the Single Child Record programme, following project management support from Socitm Consulting. By providing project management and process change expertise, we were able to assist the Council in embarking on the implementation of an effective data transfer process designed to provide staff with access to timely data.
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  | Tags: Information sharing, Metropolitan districts, North West, Project and programme management, Information management/Information assurance, Project and programme management

Single Assessment Programme

Client name: 
North West e-Government Group

The project issues

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  | Tags: Business process improvement, North West, Project and programme management, Willingness to partner, Partnership development/joint working, Project and programme management

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