The Innovation group are working with the concept of radical efficiency. Traditionally cost cutting involves less for less. Much less for not much less sometimes when second round costs are counted.
And too often easy short term cuts are what happen. High cost programmes, politically either low profile or lacking public support are the first to go. Services for teen mothers, street level mental health services or housing for drug addicits. But the long term costs of the cuts can be immense.
Or sometimes central government transfers responsibility for a service to a local authority but without the funding.
But the challenge of radical efficiency is to develop the principles and the methodology of doing more with less.
Some of the work resembles that of the our Partnership Resource Centre. Early results show that it is vital to involve the workforce but are not generally engaged in looking for better ways of doing things.
And it isn’t just a suggestion box type approach.
Some of the answers will involve a faster uptake of new technology solutions.
Real change that works often means a front loaded investment of time or capital or both. But the returns can be brilliant. And whatever ones political or economic persuasion it is very hard to argue that we are hitting all our top priorities with our current spending patterns. What we do with savings is for another discussion.
I will follow the work with interest.
Fingers crossed. :/
Fingers crossed for what Spud?
Please explain
Would it be true to say by implementing this new efferent policy framework using the Innovation Units “Radical Efficiency model” Saving’s could be made were producers (ie public/private sector) are shown how to sheer their appropriate product supply to customer’s. It would then be possible to concentrate on finding the most efficient across the board way to supply customer’s.
Fingers crossed that it all doesn’t go to custard, I’m not that optimistic