This practical workshop provides participants with new ways to improve fiduciary responsibility and value for money. Participants are guided through a framework using real life examples to identify opportunities and new approaches for their department.
For
Those who want to develop their knowledge and skills to deliver improved efficiency, effectiveness and value for money through improved policy making and improved service delivery.
Workshop objectives
Upon completion of the workshop participants will:
Understand the current context and how to respond to government priorities, departmental drivers and the current fiscal position
Improve departmental value for money
Create best value service delivery: segmenting and differentiating services to ensure outputs deliver desired outcomes
Reprioritise resources and align baselines having identified what you would do if this was your business?
Adopt commercial methods in your department to deliver services that people want and are willing to pay for
Implement sustainable techniques for improving efficiency, effectiveness and utilisation of resources
Topics
Understanding Context: current Government priorities, fiscal outlook and drivers for economic transformation
Creating Value: What are we doing? What are we not doing? How should we be doing it? How to segment/differentiate services to create value
Maximising funding sources: Understanding current funding formulas and identifying opportunities and risks associated with new funding sources
Business-like Thinking: What would you do differently if this was your business? What do your customers want? What is the customer willing to pay? What is the opportunity cost?
Continuous Improvement: Sustainable techniques for improving efficiency, effectiveness and utilisation of resources
Adaptation: How to adapt current practices and bring it all together: A framework for delivering improved service delivery and policy advice
Evidential reporting: Proving the value of policy and operational changes: Pre and Post Measures of financial/economic impacts of realigned proposals on outputs and outcomes
