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06/12/2012 By Tim Manning

Supplier Relationship Management in the Public Sector

Shoal of fish, Jim and Becca Wicks / CC-BY-SA-3.0

The public sector is faced with a growing and diverse range of independent providers of public services. Traditional procurement frequently assumes an arm’s length approach, whereby services are purchased and managed through a tightly specified service contract. But many public services are there to address messy problems – services that are intimately involved in people’s lives, such as mental health, […]

Filed Under: Partner Networks, public sector Tagged With: collaboration, commissioning, partner networks, procurement, public sector, supplier-relationship-management, value-transparency

23/10/2012 By Tim Manning

Shared Services in the Public Sector

Ford Model T Assembly Line, 1924

The use of Shared Services in the public sector has been a hot topic in 2012.  Promoted heavily since Gershon’s Public Sector Efficiency Review in 2004, as a means to reducing costs, the NAO published a very critical report in March 2012 on the sharing of services in central government.  There has also been the very […]

Filed Under: Private Sector, public sector, Shared Services, Sourcing Tagged With: central government, collaboration, diseconomies of scale, economies of scale, local government, partner networks, public sector, shared services

Wise Words

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

All Posts

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  • Standard Work in Lean Services – proceed with caution 23/02/2014
  • Open data and service design 30/10/2013
  • Universal Credit – at least they stopped digging 09/09/2013
  • Putting the thinking back into Lean 03/09/2013
  • Setting meaningful performance targets 30/06/2013
  • Making good sourcing decisions 25/03/2013
  • Supplier Relationship Management in the Public Sector 06/12/2012
  • Shared Services in the Public Sector 23/10/2012
  • Harnessing the power of User Innovation 27/09/2012
  • BPR Revisited 06/09/2012
  • Major Project Assurance in the Public Sector 09/05/2012
  • Rural Payments Agency – avoiding the mistakes of the past 12/03/2012
  • Bringing some clarity to service design 03/03/2012

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