“Saving over £300,000 every working day over the next four years” identified in Birmingham’s draft business plan along with a desire to integrate or share back-office and support services with other public bodies and sectors.

Council will not directly deliver services – Bury’s transformation strategy identifies some key programme commitments. New technology, greater use of agile and home working to improve access to services and increase productivity.

Case studies and presentations from the most recent PSCSF Public Sector Channel Shift and Self Service Forum. Improving Savings, Service & Customer Satisfaction.

All local government organisations face pressure to make savings while improving public services. The BlackBerry® wireless platform provides government with a compelling way to improve individual worker productivity, effect process transformation, make public service provision much more visible and deliver cost savings.

last month we attended a number of venues in Liverpool including the Britannia and Radisson hotels. Much was discussed on the subject of IT spending including the benefits the olympics has had on the country’s budget. Next month we are off to Leeds, stay tuned for our write up.

Welcome…

….to the new home of Public Sector Forums (PSF).

Connecting a community dedicated to raising awareness of how, where and why technology assets, resources and facilities can be utilised or shared better to improve public service delivery and support the policies of government.

Exploring how people and processes adapt to the deployment of evolving technology – online engagement and the internet; sharing, protecting or governing information and data; mobility and geo location systems; and much more.

Aligned, connected and engaged with:
•Public Sector – Thought leaders, innovators, service and programme specialists (deploying, specifying, sourcing and procuring systems and services) from within organisations, associations and consultants.
•ICT/Technology Industry – Thought leaders, evangelists and those responsible for engaging, aligning systems and maintaining relationships within the public sector (ranging from functions such as business development, sales, marketing to those technically responsible for deploying, supporting and developing technology platforms).

By:
•Coordinating informative market research and analysis.
•Connecting people, focus groups and concepts.
•Developing knowledge sharing platforms via publications of resources online and PR campaigns across a range of online social and interactive media channels.
•Scheduling national and regional face to face forum and learning events.