Public sector consultancy - success stories
Government and local communities – efficiency and lean thinking
The best way to understand the tangible benefits of working with our public sector consultancy team at The Consultancy Company is to see the results that we have delivered for some of our existing clients. The case studies below explain some of the challenges faced by our clients in the areas of housing and homelessness, older peoples strategy, and preparing for inspection; and how our public sector consultants have worked to help our clients overcome these challenges.
Preparation for inspection
"Your consultants are achieving the milestones I want and it’s great having them around." Kate Hindle, Operations Director, Charter Community Housing Charter Community Housing is a small housing association who wanted assistance with preparation for inspection by The Audit Commission’s housing team. Read more |
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Informatics: Information Systems Strategy Development
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"I’m very pleased, we have got a completely new IS strategy. The Consultancy Company really involved our people in a series of workshops to create this robust strategy.” Barry Hughes, Chief Executive Selwood Housing asked The Consultancy Company to assist in the creation of a business-driven informatics strategy to provide a platform for meeting its strategic and operational systems targets for the next five years. Read more |
Older People’s Strategy: Focus Group Discussions
“An independent focus was essential for this process, feedback has been excellent and we found the whole event very useful and valuable.” Housing Strategy Officer A large Borough Council required expert but independent support in order to organise and facilitate four focus group discussions with older people in four different age ranges to consider client needs, expectations and experience of housing, in order to inform their Older People’s Strategy. Read more. |
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Strategy Review of Procurement Systems
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“The outcomes of this strategy review were a real step change for our client. Having worked with them, we knew they had the appetite and skills to implement a radically different approach to their work.” Barbara Spittle, The Consultancy Company The Consultancy Company was asked to undertake a strategy review of the current procurement systems of a large city council and to make recommendations as to how it could streamline processes and realise year on year savings in purchasing costs. Read more |
Strategic Transport Review
“There was some initial resistance to the changes, but the consultancy team were very effective at working in partnership with out staff and making everyone feel they had a voice in the process." Transport Manager, Metropolitan Borough Council A large Borough Council asked The Consultancy Company to help reduce its transport costs and delivery better value for money over their diverse range of vehicle and service requirements. Read more |
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Homelessness Strategy: Culture Change for Partnership
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“We have had very positive feedback from everyone. It was a valuable and productive exercise which stimulated very healthy discussion and gave us some positive and challenging things to develop.” Peter Hoyle, Housing Strategy and Enabling Manager, Bournemouth Borough Council Bournemouth Borough Council is a Unitary Authority charged with delivering challenging government targets for reducing homelessness. Although partners were instrumental in agreeing a homelessness strategy there were concerns that historic behaviours and practices would diminish the successful delivery of the strategic aims. Our public sector consultants assisted the council in changing the culture of the organisation to deliver a more person centred approach to preventing homelessness. Read more |
