NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) implemented Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to modernize its core systems and IT infrastructure while transforming its culture. Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) helped NHSBT introduce SAFe starting with its Organ Donation and Transplantation program. Over the first Program Increment, NHSBT's teams delivered most of their commitments and improved engagement between business and IT. NHSBT has now expanded SAFe to its Core Systems Modernization program and sees continued benefits of the agile approach.
The document provides an overview of the new Long Beach Civic Center Project, a $520 million development that will replace an outdated city hall with a new civic center campus. The project is using an innovative public-private partnership (P3) model to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the civic center in order to reduce risk and costs for the City of Long Beach. The sustainable civic center campus will include a new city library, retail space, offices and parking structures. It is targeting energy efficiency, lower operating costs and resilience to benefit the community for years to come.
El documento resume las principales amenazas cibernéticas identificadas en un informe de una compañía de equipos de red, incluyendo que los piratas informáticos operan cada vez más como empresas exitosas y utilizan técnicas comunes como explotar vulnerabilidades de software, lanzar spam relacionado a eventos de actualidad, y alquilar botnets para diseminar malware. El informe también advierte sobre amenazas persistentes como Conficker, spam, worms, y fraude relacionado a dispositivos móviles y empleados internos debido a la
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François Nars is known for his influential cosmetics brand but is also a talented photographer. In this portfolio for Harper's Bazaar, he captures model Daria Strokous embodying Gothic romance aesthetics. While initially self-taught, Nars has collaborated with legendary photographers and refined his skills over decades. His vision of beauty features strong facial features and personalities over conventional attractiveness. He aims to portray his subjects' characters through intimate yet balanced portraits.
This document summarizes a study analyzing the flavor chemicals found in 30 electronic cigarette fluids from two disposable e-cigarette brands and refill bottles from local vape shops. The study found:
1) Total flavor chemical levels ranged from approximately 1-4% (10-40 mg/mL) in many liquids, while labeled nicotine levels ranged from 0.6-2.4% (6-24 mg/mL).
2) Many of the flavor chemicals identified were aldehydes, a class of compounds known to irritate respiratory tract tissue.
3) Vanillin and/or ethyl vanillin, potential respiratory irritants, were found in 17 of the liquids as one
Industry Transformer: Container Depot Association (Singapore)SPRING Singapore
The Container Depot Association (Singapore) (CDAS) transformed the logistics sector with the introduction of the Electronic Container Trucking System (eCTS). The implementation of eCTS as a common IT platform helps minimise work repetition and time wastage from the current disparate communication systems and devices. This initiative reduces reliance on manpower and improves productivity for container logistics players as a whole. For more stories and updates on how you can boost productivity and create stronger business growth in a lean manpower way, visit www.mom.gov.sg/leds.
The launch of the Food Manufacturing Industry Transformation Map (ITM) highlights several ways to transform the sector into Asia’s leading food and nutrition hub. One way is through robotics and automation to improve various manufacturing and quality operations, speed up processes, and increase production capacity. Efforts, such as the establishment of the Food Innovation Cluster (FIC) also makes it easier for businesses to connect with research institutes to create new product offerings. Such initiatives encourage them to upskill their staff to support innovation efforts and, ultimately, boost export-driven growth.
Forum SDM Bali - Entertraining Company profile 2017Gunawan Wicaksono
Entertraining is a 15-year specialist in hospitality training, teambuilding, and motivation classes. They conduct workshops and seminars in Bali for clients in hospitality, retail, banking, healthcare, and other industries. Their vision is to be a successful people development partner and their mission is to provide fun, engaging in-house training, public workshops, teambuilding, and motivational classes. They are led by Iwan Setiawan, a hospitality trainer and motivator with over 15 years of experience in training and development roles at hotels across Asia. Entertraining has provided training to over 100 hotel, retail, government, bank, hospital and airline clients.
The document provides an overview of the new Long Beach Civic Center Project, a $520 million development that will replace an outdated city hall with a new civic center campus. The project is using an innovative public-private partnership (P3) model to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the civic center in order to reduce risk and costs for the City of Long Beach. The sustainable civic center campus will include a new city library, retail space, offices and parking structures. It is targeting energy efficiency, lower operating costs and resilience to benefit the community for years to come.
El documento resume las principales amenazas cibernéticas identificadas en un informe de una compañía de equipos de red, incluyendo que los piratas informáticos operan cada vez más como empresas exitosas y utilizan técnicas comunes como explotar vulnerabilidades de software, lanzar spam relacionado a eventos de actualidad, y alquilar botnets para diseminar malware. El informe también advierte sobre amenazas persistentes como Conficker, spam, worms, y fraude relacionado a dispositivos móviles y empleados internos debido a la
François Nars Editorial_Harper's Bazaar Australia September 2015 (low res)Esther Han
François Nars is known for his influential cosmetics brand but is also a talented photographer. In this portfolio for Harper's Bazaar, he captures model Daria Strokous embodying Gothic romance aesthetics. While initially self-taught, Nars has collaborated with legendary photographers and refined his skills over decades. His vision of beauty features strong facial features and personalities over conventional attractiveness. He aims to portray his subjects' characters through intimate yet balanced portraits.
This document summarizes a study analyzing the flavor chemicals found in 30 electronic cigarette fluids from two disposable e-cigarette brands and refill bottles from local vape shops. The study found:
1) Total flavor chemical levels ranged from approximately 1-4% (10-40 mg/mL) in many liquids, while labeled nicotine levels ranged from 0.6-2.4% (6-24 mg/mL).
2) Many of the flavor chemicals identified were aldehydes, a class of compounds known to irritate respiratory tract tissue.
3) Vanillin and/or ethyl vanillin, potential respiratory irritants, were found in 17 of the liquids as one
Industry Transformer: Container Depot Association (Singapore)SPRING Singapore
The Container Depot Association (Singapore) (CDAS) transformed the logistics sector with the introduction of the Electronic Container Trucking System (eCTS). The implementation of eCTS as a common IT platform helps minimise work repetition and time wastage from the current disparate communication systems and devices. This initiative reduces reliance on manpower and improves productivity for container logistics players as a whole. For more stories and updates on how you can boost productivity and create stronger business growth in a lean manpower way, visit www.mom.gov.sg/leds.
The launch of the Food Manufacturing Industry Transformation Map (ITM) highlights several ways to transform the sector into Asia’s leading food and nutrition hub. One way is through robotics and automation to improve various manufacturing and quality operations, speed up processes, and increase production capacity. Efforts, such as the establishment of the Food Innovation Cluster (FIC) also makes it easier for businesses to connect with research institutes to create new product offerings. Such initiatives encourage them to upskill their staff to support innovation efforts and, ultimately, boost export-driven growth.
Forum SDM Bali - Entertraining Company profile 2017Gunawan Wicaksono
Entertraining is a 15-year specialist in hospitality training, teambuilding, and motivation classes. They conduct workshops and seminars in Bali for clients in hospitality, retail, banking, healthcare, and other industries. Their vision is to be a successful people development partner and their mission is to provide fun, engaging in-house training, public workshops, teambuilding, and motivational classes. They are led by Iwan Setiawan, a hospitality trainer and motivator with over 15 years of experience in training and development roles at hotels across Asia. Entertraining has provided training to over 100 hotel, retail, government, bank, hospital and airline clients.
Chazey Partners - Your Business Services Partner Chazey Partners
The brochure gives you an edgy information on how Chazey Partners - a practitioners-led global advisory business - works with shared services leaders globally to deliver world-class operations
Rochester Regional Health formed in 2014 through the merger of Rochester General Health System and Unity Health System. To support the needs of the combined organization, the HR departments selected Workday as their unified HR system. Workday provided capabilities to help manage the merger such as evaluating talent across the organization, streamlining HR processes, and providing data and analytics to inform strategic initiatives. Rochester Regional Health now feels prepared to take on additional acquisitions using Workday due to their experience with two deployments.
CSIP Highlight Review Progress And Outcomes 2007Rowan Purdy
This document provides a summary of the Care Services Improvement Partnership's (CSIP) progress and priorities in 2007. It discusses how CSIP works to improve health and social care services through building local capacity, supporting policy implementation, and informing policy development. CSIP focuses on integration, partnership working, personalization, choice, equality and diversity. The document highlights positive feedback on CSIP's impact and outlines upcoming organizational changes to strengthen regional presence.
- Genzyme engaged the Great Place to Work Institute to help renew its high-trust culture and support a growth strategy. A structured program was created that included aligning senior leadership, crafting a compelling vision, appointing a High Trust Lead, integrating trust metrics into performance management, and establishing an internal Great Place to Work team.
- A trust survey identified opportunities to increase engagement and trust levels. Action plans were developed for site-wide issues, individual leader/team challenges, and tactical priorities. The program focused on building leadership capability to improve trust within their teams and support the organization's growth goals. As a result of this initiative, trust and engagement levels increased significantly.
Advanta is a professional services firm established in 2004 that provides project execution services to healthcare organizations. It has a national presence with headquarters in California and 5 satellite offices. Advanta's team consists of experienced consultants with minimum 15 years experience who are skilled in healthcare operations, business systems, and project management. Advanta follows a results-driven transformation model to assess needs, transform processes and operations, and sustain benefits. It offers services including project leadership, process improvement, and revenue cycle management. Notable clients include government agencies like VA and private insurers. Sample projects include systems implementations, organizational redesigns, and program management support.
Dynamic talent planning and forecasting helps Accenture to be collaborative and transparent as we empower our people, deliver innovative solutions to clients, and manage better business outcomes.
The Child Welfare System of the 21st Century: Modernization in the Applicatio...Irene Gawel
Agile transformation is a daunting but necessary journey for our nation’s child welfare system. With business demands and user needs shifting at the speed of light, expectations are higher than ever. Most state agencies have recognized that traditional
approaches to program/project management and development cannot keep up, and an operational paradigm shift is needed.
This document summarizes Serco's activities and achievements in 2015 at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK. Key points include:
- Successful contract renewal with the hospital, delivering over £1 million in annual savings over 5 years.
- Consistent performance above 96% contractual requirements, with an average of 99.28%.
- Ongoing initiatives to implement LEAN principles and increase efficiencies while maintaining or improving patient care.
- Various capital investments to upgrade facilities and technology.
Severstal is a large, global steel company that faced challenges with inconsistent HR processes across its business units. It implemented an HR shared services center to standardize processes and increase efficiency (Summary Sentence 1). Working with Accenture, Severstal analyzed its current HR functions and determined which activities would be best handled locally or through the shared services center (Summary Sentence 2). The transition to the new HR shared services center is expected to improve HR workforce productivity by 30% and reduce costs by 20% (Summary Sentence 3).
Innovation Partners International is a consulting firm that specializes in building strength-based, high-performance organizations. They use an innovative positive change model and Appreciative Inquiry to engage stakeholders, envision success, and achieve lasting results for clients in various industries. Their approach involves assessing eight elements - structure, systems, trust/values, managerial practices, processes, strategy, and more - to design strategies, build leadership and teams, and implement sustainable changes. The firm brings diverse expertise from experts around the world to shift conversations, uncover innovative ideas, and dramatically improve clients' businesses through engagement and positive organizational development.
Effective onboarding and employee engagementRamesh Ankathi
This document provides an overview of Cyient, an engineering and technology solutions company, and its approach to corporate social responsibility. It discusses Cyient's focus on education, sanitation, digital literacy and skill development through initiatives like adopting a local school, building sanitation facilities, establishing a digital library, and running training programs. It also outlines Cyient's disaster relief efforts and contributions to innovation initiatives. The company allocates 2% of annual profits to its CSR activities and aims to create lasting social change through small, targeted interventions.
Accenture created a Journey and Change Management Center of Excellence to help its employees embrace change and adopt new technologies. The Center focuses on human-centric change management practices and provides services like training, communications, and change leadership. It has grown to over 250 change practitioners worldwide who help Accenture employees adapt to new technologies and work practices. The Center uses surveys, analytics and communities to continuously improve how it enables large-scale digital transformation at Accenture.
A New Way Forward: Modernising Tools to Improve the Future of Careaccenture
ATSICHS (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health service) Brisbane is one of the oldest and largest Indigenous community organisations in Australia. With the help of Accenture, ATSICHS aimed to redefine the characteristics of its programs and services.
Aronagh's Consulting Services Portfolio covers people & culture, organisation design, business transformation and data governance. Contact me at www.aronagh.com for more information.
Project7 was engaged by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to help them identify members' priority needs, realign services accordingly, and restructure the organization to be more cost-effective and ensure long-term sustainability. Project7 conducted a voice of the member analysis, service cost analysis, and organizational structure analysis. This identified opportunities to streamline processes, reduce costs by 25%, and increase revenues. The financial benefits of Project7's recommendations were over 14 times the cost of their consulting services. The RPS was then able to realign its services and restructure its organization to better serve members and ensure long-term stability.
This is a legacy publication from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. It outlines a framework of five models for thinking about making change happen, based on the work of McKinsey and Co
Haworth provides workplace services to help customers create effective, sustainable, and evolving workspaces. Their Harmony Services program consists of services grouped into four categories: Create, Evolve, Sustain, and Organic Spaces. Services include workplace strategy consulting, project management assistance, furniture audits, and analytics to track space and asset utilization. Haworth aims to future-proof customers' work environments and ensure investments remain relevant over time through their Organic Spaces approach.
As most NHS Trust’s advance in their commitment to deliver high quality services such as those illustrated by the Service Improvement Programme, it is essential the organisation is able to support good quality services through well informed decision making for services users and carers.
This whitepaper looks at ways in which Trusts can improve how they share knowledge and work collaboratively towards the main goal; quality patient care.
As most NHS Trust’s advance in their commitment to deliver high quality services such as those illustrated by the Service Improvement Programme, it is essential the organisation is able to support good quality services through well informed decision making for services users and carers.
This whitepaper looks at ways in which Trusts can improve how they share knowledge and work collaboratively towards the main goal; quality patient care.
This document outlines biographies for several individuals who served as judges for the 2016 Allocate Awards. It provides brief descriptions of each judge's background, qualifications, and current or most recent role within the healthcare sector. The judges represented a variety of organizations, including NHS Improvement, NHS Employers, Nursing Times, Southampton Business School, the Department of Health, Good Governance Institute, and Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences.
Chazey Partners - Your Business Services Partner Chazey Partners
The brochure gives you an edgy information on how Chazey Partners - a practitioners-led global advisory business - works with shared services leaders globally to deliver world-class operations
Rochester Regional Health formed in 2014 through the merger of Rochester General Health System and Unity Health System. To support the needs of the combined organization, the HR departments selected Workday as their unified HR system. Workday provided capabilities to help manage the merger such as evaluating talent across the organization, streamlining HR processes, and providing data and analytics to inform strategic initiatives. Rochester Regional Health now feels prepared to take on additional acquisitions using Workday due to their experience with two deployments.
CSIP Highlight Review Progress And Outcomes 2007Rowan Purdy
This document provides a summary of the Care Services Improvement Partnership's (CSIP) progress and priorities in 2007. It discusses how CSIP works to improve health and social care services through building local capacity, supporting policy implementation, and informing policy development. CSIP focuses on integration, partnership working, personalization, choice, equality and diversity. The document highlights positive feedback on CSIP's impact and outlines upcoming organizational changes to strengthen regional presence.
- Genzyme engaged the Great Place to Work Institute to help renew its high-trust culture and support a growth strategy. A structured program was created that included aligning senior leadership, crafting a compelling vision, appointing a High Trust Lead, integrating trust metrics into performance management, and establishing an internal Great Place to Work team.
- A trust survey identified opportunities to increase engagement and trust levels. Action plans were developed for site-wide issues, individual leader/team challenges, and tactical priorities. The program focused on building leadership capability to improve trust within their teams and support the organization's growth goals. As a result of this initiative, trust and engagement levels increased significantly.
Advanta is a professional services firm established in 2004 that provides project execution services to healthcare organizations. It has a national presence with headquarters in California and 5 satellite offices. Advanta's team consists of experienced consultants with minimum 15 years experience who are skilled in healthcare operations, business systems, and project management. Advanta follows a results-driven transformation model to assess needs, transform processes and operations, and sustain benefits. It offers services including project leadership, process improvement, and revenue cycle management. Notable clients include government agencies like VA and private insurers. Sample projects include systems implementations, organizational redesigns, and program management support.
Dynamic talent planning and forecasting helps Accenture to be collaborative and transparent as we empower our people, deliver innovative solutions to clients, and manage better business outcomes.
The Child Welfare System of the 21st Century: Modernization in the Applicatio...Irene Gawel
Agile transformation is a daunting but necessary journey for our nation’s child welfare system. With business demands and user needs shifting at the speed of light, expectations are higher than ever. Most state agencies have recognized that traditional
approaches to program/project management and development cannot keep up, and an operational paradigm shift is needed.
This document summarizes Serco's activities and achievements in 2015 at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK. Key points include:
- Successful contract renewal with the hospital, delivering over £1 million in annual savings over 5 years.
- Consistent performance above 96% contractual requirements, with an average of 99.28%.
- Ongoing initiatives to implement LEAN principles and increase efficiencies while maintaining or improving patient care.
- Various capital investments to upgrade facilities and technology.
Severstal is a large, global steel company that faced challenges with inconsistent HR processes across its business units. It implemented an HR shared services center to standardize processes and increase efficiency (Summary Sentence 1). Working with Accenture, Severstal analyzed its current HR functions and determined which activities would be best handled locally or through the shared services center (Summary Sentence 2). The transition to the new HR shared services center is expected to improve HR workforce productivity by 30% and reduce costs by 20% (Summary Sentence 3).
Innovation Partners International is a consulting firm that specializes in building strength-based, high-performance organizations. They use an innovative positive change model and Appreciative Inquiry to engage stakeholders, envision success, and achieve lasting results for clients in various industries. Their approach involves assessing eight elements - structure, systems, trust/values, managerial practices, processes, strategy, and more - to design strategies, build leadership and teams, and implement sustainable changes. The firm brings diverse expertise from experts around the world to shift conversations, uncover innovative ideas, and dramatically improve clients' businesses through engagement and positive organizational development.
Effective onboarding and employee engagementRamesh Ankathi
This document provides an overview of Cyient, an engineering and technology solutions company, and its approach to corporate social responsibility. It discusses Cyient's focus on education, sanitation, digital literacy and skill development through initiatives like adopting a local school, building sanitation facilities, establishing a digital library, and running training programs. It also outlines Cyient's disaster relief efforts and contributions to innovation initiatives. The company allocates 2% of annual profits to its CSR activities and aims to create lasting social change through small, targeted interventions.
Accenture created a Journey and Change Management Center of Excellence to help its employees embrace change and adopt new technologies. The Center focuses on human-centric change management practices and provides services like training, communications, and change leadership. It has grown to over 250 change practitioners worldwide who help Accenture employees adapt to new technologies and work practices. The Center uses surveys, analytics and communities to continuously improve how it enables large-scale digital transformation at Accenture.
A New Way Forward: Modernising Tools to Improve the Future of Careaccenture
ATSICHS (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health service) Brisbane is one of the oldest and largest Indigenous community organisations in Australia. With the help of Accenture, ATSICHS aimed to redefine the characteristics of its programs and services.
Aronagh's Consulting Services Portfolio covers people & culture, organisation design, business transformation and data governance. Contact me at www.aronagh.com for more information.
Project7 was engaged by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to help them identify members' priority needs, realign services accordingly, and restructure the organization to be more cost-effective and ensure long-term sustainability. Project7 conducted a voice of the member analysis, service cost analysis, and organizational structure analysis. This identified opportunities to streamline processes, reduce costs by 25%, and increase revenues. The financial benefits of Project7's recommendations were over 14 times the cost of their consulting services. The RPS was then able to realign its services and restructure its organization to better serve members and ensure long-term stability.
This is a legacy publication from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. It outlines a framework of five models for thinking about making change happen, based on the work of McKinsey and Co
Haworth provides workplace services to help customers create effective, sustainable, and evolving workspaces. Their Harmony Services program consists of services grouped into four categories: Create, Evolve, Sustain, and Organic Spaces. Services include workplace strategy consulting, project management assistance, furniture audits, and analytics to track space and asset utilization. Haworth aims to future-proof customers' work environments and ensure investments remain relevant over time through their Organic Spaces approach.
As most NHS Trust’s advance in their commitment to deliver high quality services such as those illustrated by the Service Improvement Programme, it is essential the organisation is able to support good quality services through well informed decision making for services users and carers.
This whitepaper looks at ways in which Trusts can improve how they share knowledge and work collaboratively towards the main goal; quality patient care.
As most NHS Trust’s advance in their commitment to deliver high quality services such as those illustrated by the Service Improvement Programme, it is essential the organisation is able to support good quality services through well informed decision making for services users and carers.
This whitepaper looks at ways in which Trusts can improve how they share knowledge and work collaboratively towards the main goal; quality patient care.
This document outlines biographies for several individuals who served as judges for the 2016 Allocate Awards. It provides brief descriptions of each judge's background, qualifications, and current or most recent role within the healthcare sector. The judges represented a variety of organizations, including NHS Improvement, NHS Employers, Nursing Times, Southampton Business School, the Department of Health, Good Governance Institute, and Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences.
1. NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT
We Stand for Hope. We Stand for Life
AGILE TRANSFORMATION IN A HIGHLY
REGULATED ENVIRONMENT
NHS Blood & Transplant’s Agile Journey
Cultural change embraced but not at the cost of quality or control
More deliverables met with continuous refinement and improvements
Business and IT aligned and collaborating daily