To analyse a newinitiative to cutcosts while improvingperformance.

TaskANDY DRAPER

PEER APPROVEDAND TRUSTED

SOURCES

1. MADE AWARE OF A NEW INITIATIVE BY A NEWS FEED HE’S SUBSCRIBED TOAndy is aware from a newsfeed of a new initiative being used by another county council. He decides to analyse it to see if there’s any benefits for his council. He’s aware of some of the previous initiatives implemented by this council as he benchmarks his performance with others.

AGGREGATEDNEWS FEEDS

2. CONTACTS RESPECTED NETWORKAndy has a personal network of respected contacts. He phones them to gauge some initial thoughts. He even sets up a video conference with an ex-colleague that holds a similar position in a different county.

COUNTYWIDEAND EVEN

INTERNATIONALNETWORKING

A SET OF TOOLSTHAT OTHERS HAVEUSED AND SHARED

3. DELEGATES RESEARCH WHILE USING TOOLS TO ANALYSE AND SCRUTINISE DAAReassured that he is on the right track, Andy delegates further research to members of his team, while he relies on his tried and tested analysis tools to identify risks and feasibility.

SINGLE POINT OFBROWSER BASED ACCESSTO TRUSTED WEBSITES

4. STAFF RAISE RESEARCH BLOCKAGESAndy’s staff have problems with their research as certain websites are blocked. Andy is a senior member of staff, but cannot change IT policy for these sites so they have to omit this insight from the research.

WATCH CONFERENCESONLINE, OR DOWNLOAD

PODCASTS, ATTENDMEETINGS VIRTUALLY

5. ATTENDS MEETINGS AND A CONFERENCEOver the next few weeks, Andy attends several face-to-face meetings where the initiative is mentioned briefly. He also attends a three-day conference for public sector finance directors, but misses the last day and consequently finds it difficult to stay on top of the initiative’s progress.

6. WATCHES CONFERENCE VIDEOSEventually he notices a link in the footer and discovers that each speaker has been recorded in full so attempts to watch them but is frustrated to find that he cannot stream media at work. He sends the links to private email so he can watch them at home.

WATCH, SHARE & DISCUSSPRESENTATIONS ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE TO PROJECT DISCUSSIONS

CLEAR IDENTIFICATION OF DATA SOURCES& THEIR PROVENANCE

INFORMATION FILTERED BY DATE, SOURCE,

TYPE, & AUTHOR

7. GETS RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM TEAMA couple of weeks after the research was delegated, the analysis is presented back. He suspects that some of the data comes from potentially out-of-date and unreliable sources.

MORE CONSISTENTAND TRANSPARENT

COMPARISONS

8. RUNS DATA ANALYSIS USING A NUMBER OF TOOLSAndy runs his own analysis of the data and suspects that some tools can be manipulated to present more favourable results. He also finds that the quality and completeness of data varies significantly, especially local data compared to national data sets.

IDENTIFICATION OF RELEVANT POLICIES &

DATA STANDARDS

9. CREATES AND SHARES A PAPER Andy creates a supplementary paper highlighting suggestions, risks and improvements based on the data anomalies found. He shares this with his team and then wider. The revisions put the initiative on a more robust footing. Andy is invited to do a remote conference talk for PolicyTV.

MAKING IMPROVEMENTS & INITIATIVES AVAILABLE

ON A WIDER BASIS

CONTEXT AROUND RECOMMENDATIONS

IS AVAILABLE

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