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Commissioning Innovation

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 17:00

I recently co-hosted a workshop bringing commissioners (mostly local authority and health) together with third sector (charity) providers to help each side understand how the other works.
The results were explosive!
The workshop demonstrated just how much . . . . .

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IES talk - Business Cases for Public Good

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 13:59

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IES (Institute for Employment Studies) does groundbreaking research into the impact of employment practice on delivery of effective public services, amongst other things (for a fuller explanation see their web site).
They run fortnightly lunchtime seminars on relevant issues and Tues 8 Oct 08 was the inaugural seminar for this academic year.
Minney.org presented on how to prepare and deliver a business case for public and statutory funding, illustrating some of the difficulties of assembling evidence, and of introducing new roles.

Gaining Clinical Engagement for Change

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 21:48

The people who deliver care to patients are clinicians, so to create change we (service improvers) need to engage. Clinicians often know the problems, and with the right help will both develop solutions and implement them. Facilitated session supporting clinicians to talk about the engagement they require.

Workshop: Developing Evidence-Based Business Case

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 06/29/2006 - 17:00

A 1½ day workshop for people who need to prepare business cases, need more practice, or whose track record at having business cases approved is not all they would like. It helps delegates to gather the evidence and identify the impacts which contribute to a compelling business case; and explores alternative sources of funding.

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Workshop: Developing Benefits Frameworks

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Sat, 04/29/2006 - 17:00

The key to delivering benefits across a whole health community is to ensure that each project, each initiative is understood in context.
This is what is meant in World Class Commissioning terms by the whole stream of "assessing needs", "Review Current" and "Decide priorities" (WCC was presented in 2008).

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If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Minimum wage

Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Calculator for SROI

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:05

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CPI components

When calculating a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation or SROI forecast , sometimes you have to rely on published figures from reports.  But if these are from a few years ago, then they probably need adjusting for inflation.

There are calculators on the web to do this for you, but I found them cumbersome and it was difficult to keep a record of what calculator I'd used, and how, for which value - auditability and transparency is vital for SROI.  So here's a spreadsheet to do this properly!

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