Special
one-day Conference & Exhibition for Government & Industry
22 May 2002, The institution of
Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London |
| Speakers
Include |
Ian
MacFadyen - Chairman
Ian MacFadyen Consulting |
| Formerly
a member of the Cabinet Office, Ian worked with Ministers to
produce Better Quality Services, the Government's policy and
guidance on reviewing and outsourcing Government services. (Government
Departments' implementation plans are summarised in the recent
Public Services for the Future: Modernisation, Reform, Accountability
White Paper). Better Quality Services was welcomed by the trade
unions and the private sector. Ian has advised the Namibian
Government on its outsourcing policy and has advised on public
service transformation in South Africa. As a health authority
director in County Durham, he engineered a purchasing consortium
of local GPs and the health authority, which anticipated by
two years the New NHS White Paper, and was responsible for contracts
with a portfolio of NHS Trusts. Ian is now a freelance consultant. |
| Peter
Walker - Consultant |
| Peter
is a consultant with over twenty years' experience working in
the fields of management development, organisation development
and quality improvement. He has extensive experience working
with multinational companies to formulate business strategies,
and to develop the training and support needed to put those
strategies in place. Peter has been heavily involved in total
quality and the associated management of change since 1982 when
he was involved in providing European-level support to the worldwide
quality initiative within Texas Instruments. He has published
articles on topics such as decision-making, problem-solving
and the seven management tools. |
Norman
Rose
Business Services Association |
| A
solicitor who has specialised in competition and regulatory
law, Norman is responsible for promoting the business services
sector to both the British Government and the European Union
in areas such as Public Private Partnerships, public procurement,
employment legislation and the Acquired Rights Directive. Norman
sits on the CBI National Council and the CBI Trade Association
Council. At BSA, he has been at the forefront of the social
partner dialogue, promoting constructive relationships between
private sector employers, trades unions and the public sector.
As a member of DTLR's Best Value Business Group and as a respected
advisor to the Treasury Task Force and other Government Departments
and Agencies, he is regularly called upon by Government to advise
on policy matters affecting the business services sector. These
range from areas of employment legislation, including pensions
and staff transfers, to such issues as the future shape of PFI
and the implementation of Best Value legislation. |
Mark
Woods
OGC |
| Mark
is the Director of Collaborative Opportunities at the Office
of Government Commerce (OGC). His role is to foster closer working
across departments in order to facilitate enhanced value for
money through greater aggregation of demand and enhanced process
efficiency. Mark was previously Deputy Head of Procurement at
the Inland Revenue where his responsibilities included leading
a number of cross-government initiatives and establishing the
Government Procurement Service within the Revenue. Prior to
that he was Head of Procurement at the Contributions Agency.
Mark's career has spanned a number of government departments
where he has worked at the leading edge of procurement development,
in areas such as outsourcing and relationship management.
|
Neil
Mellor
Head of Policy & Innovation,
BT |
| Neil
currently leads the policy & innovation programme for 'stepchange.gov',
BT's initiative aimed at helping transform the public sector
through innovation. He had previously headed eGovernment and
Internet & eBusiness marketing in BT since 1996, having
joined BT in 1989. Neil has 20 years' marketing & commercial
experience in the hi-tech, industrial, consumer and financial
sectors, including prior positions with BP Oil, Procter &
Gamble, Hydro Group and US Robotics/Miracom. Neil is well known
as an authority and influential presenter on Innovation, eBusiness,
Internet and emerging trends and their impact on Government,
large and small organisations, supply chains, business models,
the economy and society. He is currently closely involved with
research into the wider impact of new technologies through the
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab. Neil
was a member of the joint project team creating the ukonline.gov.uk
citizen portal. He is involved in the Independent Review Board
for Technology Means Business, part of the broader Information
Society Initiative (ISI) which aims to encourage greater uptake
and usage of Information & Communications Technology among
smaller enterprises. Neil was a key contributor to the IDeA
(Improvement & Development Agency) Leadership programme
on Futures. He is also a past member of the IMRG (Interactive
Media in Retail Group) Senate. |
Ken
Walting
Public Sector Benchmarking Service |
| Ken
is head of the UK Public Sector Benchmarking Service (PSBS).
The service is run as a partnership between HM Customs and Excise
and the Cabinet Office and is supported by an advisory group
comprising major UK Government Departments. The Service is not
only a central focal point for organisational learning and exchange
of knowledge and good practice across the public sector, but
it also acts as the UK link to the European Benchmarking Network. |
Gerald
Walters
Efficency Support Group - DVLA |
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