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Service design and innovation
John Beckerleg
Director of Supporting Services
Chief Fire Officers Association
27 June 2014
Start of the journey........
Three different authorities......
•different boundaries
•different services
•different sizes
•different budgets
•different cultures
....I wouldn’t start from here!
.. but
•similar values
•well performing
•similar pressures
•public service
orientated
•willing to partner
The ultimate destination?
Best of the private sector : use of a private
consultancy
Public - public partnership : sharing services
Potential to sell services to others
Built on trust
Innovation
Improved
quality
Reduced
costs
3 design criteria:
Additional
resilience
Agreed at outset
Used in the design
Different weighting for
each partner
Steps along the route...
Initial managers
meeting
Initial
business
case
2011
GO LIVE
Strategic
business
case
2012
Detailed
business
case
2013
New partners?
2014
2015
Steps along the route...
Initial managers
meeting
Initial
business
case
2011
GO LIVE
Strategic
business
case
2012
Strategic
business
case
New partners?
2013
2014
2015
Programme management – project team, change teams
Pilot shared functions
Standard process designs
Implementation
Staff relocation and
transfer (TUPE)
Culture workshops, branding,..
Business readiness
Communications....Communications.... Communications..........!
Service available
What does it look like?
•Single shared services organisation
Central customer contact centre
Integrated business centre
Other professional teams
• Strong theme of self service – web
interface
• £4m financial savings (apportioned)
• All teams under one employer – 400+
staff
• Simple governance (legal agreement)
(inc. performance and finance)
• Beginning to attract other customers
• Other future services to share
What went well?
Detailed specification
of each process and
cross partner
agreement
We worked through
problems
Strong programme
management and
project team
We had strong,
determined governance –
by the leaders of the
organisations
Savings - on course to
achieve
Clear milestones
What would I do differently?
Do more to prepare
the organisations
for the change
Adequately
resource the
change
Involve staff more in
designing the shared
service unit – it should
be a change for all
Spend more time
on designing the
culture and earlier
Even more
communications!
Explore different
views more openly –
recognise differences
Questions?
Success Criteria & Design Principles
Improved Service Performance and
Quality
The future model will:
Modernise and improve the quality of
support services;
Improve the customer journey/
experience;
Make best use of technology and
deliver process improvement;
Remain committed to innovation and
continuous improvement
Enable each organisation to focus on
front line operational service delivery
and meet organisational visions and
objectives;
Improve outcomes for communities
across Hampshire.
Organisational Resilience and Future
Capacity
Efficiencies and Cost Reduction
The future model will:
Attract the best people and retain core
capacity of skills, quality and expertise;
Demonstrate the resilience, flexibility
and agility to respond to changing
organisational requirements and
priorities over time;
Position services for expansion with
other organisations.
The future model will:
Reduce the cost of support function
operation whilst retaining appropriate
levels of performance, risk management
and control;
Realise cross organisational savings
through sharing of best practice;
Deliver procurement savings through
influencing the supply chain, maximising
links with current procurement
frameworks and generating greater
buying power with shared suppliers.
Generate additional income streams
through business development and
expansion.
Delivery Model:
oCreation of a single entity to provide integrated corporate services across the three organisations.
oRetain organisational identity.
oSimplicity of design and implementation.
oJoint direction, governance, control, senior management and co-ownership.
oScalability and the opportunity to attract additional core partners or deliver services for other organisations.