Managing Efficiency
Facing the largest national budget deficit in Britain's
peacetime history, in May 2010 the coalition Government made the
reduction of this £156bn figure, its top priority.
It set a target of reducing Government spending in its first
financial year of office (2010-11) by £6.2bn. In light of such
spending cuts, the challenge to public sector organisations was not
just to ‘slash and burn’, but to find ways of delivering more for
less and ensure essential government services remained intact and
benefited those in most need.
In order to achieve this, and still meet such stringent
efficiency targets, the UK Government is focusing on transforming
the way government operates by:
- Reducing waste
- Creating forums for innovative new approaches to age-old
organisational challenges
- Managing programmes more effectively to ensure milestones,
costs and deadlines are met
As an independent professional services organisation, Vega can
demonstrate an extensive track record helping to deliver
transformation across government and equally technology-driven and
organisational-complex markets, such as Defence, Space and the
Critical National Infrastructure.
Backed by the financial stability of industrial giant
Finmeccanica, Vega’s in-depth knowledge and specialised skill set
is equipped to provide invaluable, independent advice and hands-on
technology-enabled change for government departments and agencies
charged with the responsibility for doing more for less.
Our capability helps inform decision making and facilitate
organisation change. We offer programme support functions that
oversee the most appropriate procurement options, assess the impact
of technology insertion, and manage
through-life transformation programmes (underpinned by
PRINCE 2 or equivalent standards) to ensure objectives are met, and
that tax payers’ money is spent wisely.
Our proven ability to support government efficiency has long
been recognised by the company’s continued status as an approved
public sector supplier. Vega is qualified under the Buying Solutions framework agreement, and
our services have been available through this framework, and that
of its predecessors, for over a decade.
This section of our website therefore constitutes both Vega’s
latest thinking and related activities in managing efficiency.
Thought Leadership relating to managing efficiency
» Delivering the
potential of additional savings and benefits through Acquisition
Reform
» Doing more for less with ICT services –
Vega’s guide for achieving ICT service excellence
» Balancing Risk Management and
Budgets
Articles relating to managing efficiency (summaries only)
» GC / Vega
Efficiency Roundtable
» Participative
Government
» Through Life Management Plans –
Improving Capability Delivery
Services relating to managing efficiency
» Enterprise
Analysis and Architecture
» Technology and Business Change
» Project and Programme Management
Internal links relating to managing efficiency
» Buying
Solutions
External links relating to managing efficiency
» Government
announces £6.2bn of savings in 2010-11
» Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group
» 2010 Spending
Review
» Spending
Challenge
» Releasing resources for the frontline: Independent Review of
Public Sector Efficiency (Circa 2004)
Contact Vega for
more information about managing efficiency