PS Client Examples

Central Government examples...

• Accelerating cash savings by creating an improvement plan for an established government shared service operation
• Creating a commercial and operational model to achieve cost savings of 20% for specialist functions within a central government department
• Evaluation of feasibility and strategy for corporate shared services across back-office functions in a major government department to drive efficiency and lower cost

• Programme management for a major county council shared services (HR, Finance and procurement) and SAP implementation
• Developing and delivering a cost-optimised ICT outsourcing strategy, covering the county, districts and schools to achieve significant cash savings
• Relationship repair and rebuilding between a major local authority and their outsource partner to resolve significant cost and service issues

• Commercial co-leadership (with OGC) for Cabinet Office data centre consolidation, application store and g-cloud programme: creating practical commercial routes for government to take advantage of significant savings and service improvements in IT
• Programme review and ongoing benefits realisation assurance on a major Oracle IT platform investment for a key government agency
• Review and recommendations on 30% cost reduction for an existing outsourced function for an executive agency

• Feasibility study for multi-Force shared services across the HR and Finance functions of the 43 Police Forces in England and Wales, on behalf of ACPO
• Feasibility study for collaborative back office and IT functions sourcing for a grouping of police forces in the North, producing indicative cost savings for shared delivery
• Delivered a strategic business case with recommendations highlighting the current baseline and current options in terms of collaboration, outsourcing and offshoring for a cluster of forces in South England

• Achieved significant cost savings and service stability through business case development and commercial strategy implementation for a healthcare joint venture  
• Design and implementation support for major collaborative shared service operation
• Renegotiation of key commercial terms for finance outsourcing in healthcare sector