RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• RSe Consulting helps local authorities to make
  their money go further.

We have worked with over two dozen local
authorities to improve their ability to be smart
with their resourcing. This slide guide explains
more.

• Our work has delivered
• millions of pounds of efficiencies
• avoidance of millions of pounds of spend that
  would have been wasted
• quicker and stronger strategic financial decision
  making
• improvements in CPA ratings
• better financial policy at a local and national
  levels.

Smart Resourcing is the term we use to cover a
wide range of financial ideas and objectives
value for money, efficiency, bang for bucks,
better procurement, use of resources,
benchmarking etc.
Smart Resourcing is one of seven
characteristics that together form RSes vision
of public service excellence
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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• Local Authorities need to get their money to go
  further

• Youre under pressure
• Taxpayers demand that their money is spent well
• The public believes fairly or not that
  council tax has risen excessively in the last few
  years
• Central government is piling the pressure on CSR
  07 is likely to require 3 a year savings, in
  addition to the 2.5 a year savings of the last
  three years
• Single status, waste, an ageing population and
  the need for more housing are not problems
  finance directors or chief executives can wish
  away.

Aggressively diminishing resources with which to
do it
Growing pressure to do more across a number of
fronts
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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• But getting money to go further is not easy

Finance directors and chief executives who we
speak to about this tell us why achieving smart
resourcing is hard

The business cases I have to judge vary so much
in quality and structure its impossible to
compare like with like, so I cant know if Im
prioritising investment effectively
Were running out of salami to slice
Our data is poor and so is my authoritys
understanding of it
Central government keeps changing the goalposts
which makes it a nightmare when Im trying to
communicate a consistent message.
My service delivery departments are very good at
asking for more money they are not very good at
asking themselves robustly how they can get more
from what theyve got
I only have a partial view of the skills
required and I am not clear how I go about
getting hold of them
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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• RSe Consulting makes it possible

Over the last six years we have developed the
thinking, the people and the tools that mean we
can give you the help you need, when you need it,
at the three crucial stages of the smart
resourcing cycle

The RSe Smart Resourcing cycle
What makes our approach work is our experience
and our skills in working across our clients, be
it with Members, finance staff or front line
delivery officers, to deliver understanding that
is shared, robust and practical. Our ability to
outperform our competition is supported by our
innovation. This includes two unparalleled tools
one for Return on Investment, one for Value for
Money benchmarking that are easy to use,
thorough and rigorous and that present data in
powerful and readily understood formats.
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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• RSe Consultings track record

This model is bringing about a step change in
the way that we deal with these and other issues
and wed like other authorities to benefit from
it too. Finance Director
We have completed dozens of projects that have
delivered smart resourcing to our clients,
ranging from small projects in the low 000s to
those with six figure values. Here are just a
few examples of the impacts we have delivered and
some quotes from clients

• we saved 1m for a London Borough when we
  restructured their ICT
• we lifted a County Councils Use of Resources
  score from 1 star to 2 stars through our Value
  for Money work
• we prevented a partnership of authorities from
  investing in smartcards a decision that has
  saved them 2m
• we delivered a step change in agreement and
  transparency for a London Boroughs 20m
  investment programme
• we have reduced a directorates annual budget in
  another London Borough by 500,000 through
  re-engineering and re-energising how they work.

RSe Consultinghas given us a far clearer
understanding of the expected impact and outcomes
of our programme of major efficiency projects.
Director
The strategy RSe put together had a financial
and qualitative analysis giving us a balanced
view to how we can reduce costs and improve
service across the council Senior Manager
We believe that our clients should be able to
transparently judge how effective their spend on
us has been in bringing about smart resourcing
we use a benchmark of 1m of cashable savings
over 5 years (net of all costs associated, not
just our fees) per 100,000 spent on us.
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RSe Consulting delivers Smart Resourcing

• Further reading on RSe and Smart Resourcing

If you want to know more about how we might help
you in the following specific ways, do just get
in touch with Ben (020 7808 1122) or Alexander
(0207 808 1121)

• Our vision of excellence
• Reviewing Value for Money
• Assessing Options
• Delivering Efficiencies (you should also see the
  Capacity to Refresh part of our website, at
  www.rseconsulting.co.uk/
• Shared services
• Mobile working
• Social care and smart resourcing
• A list of our clients
• Case studies