Hot links from the Efficiency Exchange and the Policy and Performance Communities of Practice. You’ll need to join these communities at www.communities.idea.gov.uk to follow these links
Policy and performance
Really exciting workshop announcement on working together on strategies and policy frameworks to be hosted in Northampton on 26 May. (Scroll all the way to the bottom – or peruse the really interesting discussion that led up to it).
Are you a policy officer charged with providing a review of what the main political manifestos could mean to your council and partnership? Why not share the workload and save the pain by working with other policy officers?
What do the removal of national indicators mean to you?
Presentation: what’s new nationally – from the Acting Head of the Strategy and Development Unit – Julia Bennett and Total Place and implications for performance management
Crossover topics
Process activity mapping to achieve efficiencies. Should you bother?
The Efficiency Exchange has welcomed its 600th member. And we’re still talking about how the community should develop to support efficiency.
Have you set up a local authority trading company?
From the blogs…
Exploring the business case for e-procurement. and Defining and measuring productivity in the public sector and Systems thinking in the public sector
What all chief executives must ask about their website (and there are some big efficiency implications)
Data, data everywhere – from Adrian Barker
New documents
Local by social: how local authorities can use social media to achieve more with less
Towards Tesco: Improving public sector procurement
Tackling avoidable customer contact – case study from Scarborough
Ingrid Koehler
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