With local government struggling to develop, implement and manage Shared Services companies
- CoSocius (Cheshire West and Chester) failing to sign up Wirral
- One Connect Limited ( Lancashire CC) under investigation over alleged financial irregularities
- Liverpool Direct decides to split with their long term partner BT
and there are more examples ....is it time now for Eric Prickles to ask the Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) within the Cabinet Office to start the process of creating Independent Shared Services Centres (ISSC) as they have already done for Central Government
Cabinet Office announcement below
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/shared-service-strategy-to-save-taxpayer-money
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I estimate it costs a minimum of £500k to set a Shared Service Centre. I am aware one Council spent £250k on a business case to support their decision to proceed to a Joint Venture arrangement with another Council.
ReplyDeleteAs regards implementing an ERP solution like Oracle to support the new Shared Services Centre then you are looking at anything from £500k for the design and core configuration work which is the amount I suspect Cheshire West and Chester have spent so far ...I hope Wirral picked up the bulk of the cost?
Local Government Update on Shared Services Cosocius ( Cheshire West and East Councils) launch has been delayed until May. They are still looking for their first external client following Wirral's decision to pull out of discussions Liverpool Direct Limited (LDL) have split with their long time partner BT ( original contract signed in 2000) and looking to replace SAP financials with Oracle to create an integrated ERP solution offering to their clients So what are the chances of Cosocius and LDL hooking up and forming a North West Shared Services Centre?
ReplyDeleteSLE's can't leverage any scale and achieve upper quartile industry shared service savings ...hence why we need ISSC's which could be run locally to protect jobs ( keep the elected officers happy) ..the same challenge exists in the Police Sector ......Cheshire Police have established MFSS but can't get a Merseyside or Manchester to join them!
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