- The document summarizes a proposed restructure of a business development and support and ICT department. It outlines the drivers for change including improved resilience, consistent incident management, and better utilization of managed service providers.
- Key features of the new structure include stronger senior management, more rewarding roles for staff, reduced temporary staff needs, improved service delivery, and leveraging managed service contracts.
- A proposed new organizational structure chart is presented and the consultation and staff matching process is explained, including timelines for consultation, job matching, interviews and selection.
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3. Technology Assurance
• Manage the use of operational information gathered from IT and NT operations to estimate higher level satisfaction / impacts from what the overall technology organization delivers and achieves
• Assure this information applied in systematic improvement activities beyond / above routine operational performance activities – drive additional activities for Quality in design, build and operate process stages
• Oversee conducting the in-depth quality & performance analysis and generate reports to drive improvement actions in the NT and IT organizations as required
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• Assure this information applied in systematic improvement activities beyond / above routine operational performance activities – drive additional activities for Quality in design, build and operate process stages
• Oversee conducting the in-depth quality & performance analysis and generate reports to drive improvement actions in the NT and IT organizations as required
Course objectives and learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be better informed and equipped to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of Oxford communities
2. Demonstrate an understanding of engaging with these diverse communities
3. Identify some of the barriers experienced by marginalised / harder to reach communities
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Customer needs versus business needs – what are the differences?
Creating user stories to capture customer needs
Using Personas to test service design scenarios
Using Customer Journey Mapping to identify the good and the bad parts of processes
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2. Welcome
• Introductions
• Documentation available
– Consultation document
– Revised job descriptions – all evaluated
– Copy of presentation
• Purpose of meeting, covering
– Restructure drivers
– Requirements and outcomes
– Consultation process and timescales
• Who’s affected?
– Permanent
– Fixed term contract
– Contractor
• Support available
– Steph Nichols, HR Business Partner
– Caroline Glendinning and Steve Davis – Union Reps
– Helen Bishop, Head of Business Improvement
3. Restructure Drivers
• Creation of additional key technical roles
• Resilience in Applications Development
• Consistent incident management, resolution and
customer communications per service catalogue,
service level agreement,
• Improved utilisation of managed service
providers contracts
• Out of hours support for critical services
• Project, digital and application skills exchange
• Scanning and application processing
harmonisation
4. Key Features of the Restructure
• A stronger Senior Management team that can develop the
strategic roadmap of services.
• Better opportunities for ICT staff to develop their technical
skills with more rewarding roles.
• Reduced requirement for temporary staff to deliver
‘business as usual’ support.
• A technology led Infrastructure and Operations support and
development function, managing key infrastructure and
leveraging the managed services vendors for best
performance and value.
• A robust Service Delivery function, providing great service
from the help-desk through to client-side troubleshooting
and delivery.
• Reducing the time taken to resolve critical issues and
improving the service delivery and case closure rates.
• Improving the performance and reliability of ICT systems
and the desktop environment for all council officers
5. Key Features of the Restructure
• An expanded and re-focussed Applications Development
and Support team.
• Project Managers working more closely with technical
teams, to improve implementation of ICT projects and the
ICT Work Plan.
• A better integrated Programme Office and relationship
management team, working with both internal clients and
external suppliers.
• Better opportunities to leverage the provisions of managed
service contracts.
• Out of hours ICT service provision to support the public
facing digital services interface, and maximise availability
• Smoother and more streamlined end-to-end processes for
scanning and applications processing, improving service
performance
8. Timescales
Process Date
Example if
4 weeks staff
consultation
Closed consultation w/c 30th October
2017
Open consultation 6th November 2017
Close of consultation 4th December 2017
Job matching exercises By 4th December
2017
One to One’s with affected staff w/c 4th December
2017
Interviews/selection processes with ring fenced staff w/c 18th December
2017
9. Populating the Structure
• Two stage process:
– Job Matching
– Selection Pools (ring fencing)
• Job matching is used where:
– Position is essentially unchanged
– No change in grade; and
– Same number of posts in old/new structure
• Selection pools (ring fencing) used for affected
employees where either:
– Reduced number of posts in new structure and new posts
identical/fundamentally same as existing posts; or
– No reduction in number of posts in new structure and jobs not
a match, but similar enough in nature to current jobs to be
‘suitable alternative’
• More details in Organisational Change Policy and
Procedure and Employee Support Pack
10. Oxford City Commitment
• £400k additional budget
– £200k in base permanently
– £200k for two years to cover fixed term posts
• Transformation Programme Phase 2
– Endpoint refresh, Win10, LAN & WiFi upgrades & more
• Chief Technology and Information Manager to
recruit permanently
• Vic to remain until we have new CTIO and to ensure
robust handover
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Apprenticeship potential
11. Consultation and Support
• Support available from Steph Nichols and union
representatives
• Opportunities throughout to write or email me
(Helen Bishop) marked ‘BDS ICT Restructure
Consultation’.
• One-to-one sessions with me
• Weekly update of answers to questions raised
• Intranet page with all documentation
Provide high quality support for services by embedding the development of managers and teams as part of business as usual using HR Business Partners and Advisors
Deliver OD at an operational level as the leadership and management development program is now largely complete
Achieving greater efficiency and resilience to provide high quality support for front line service delivery through:
Common approach
Increased flexibility to manage peaks and troughs in workload
Re-invest in the iTrent system to improve and streamline our processes and systems