Archives for September 2011

NHS REFORMS AND THE FUTURE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Features, PublicNet: 30 September, 2011

The NHS reforms will bring radical changes to the way health and care services are delivered across the country. Andy Stuart sketches out the way change will effect the built environment. He highlights the impact this will have on architects, facility managers, local authorities and contractors, as well as others concerned with the built environment.

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TWITTER FOR GOOD: CHANGE THE WORLD ONE TWEET AT A TIME

Book News, PublicNet: 29 September, 2011

In her book Claire Diaz-Ortiz describes the most effective tactics for tapping into the power of Twitter as a real time information network. As Twitter’s head of corporate social innovation and philanthropy, she shares the same strategies she offers other organisations.

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TOUGH CALLS

Book News, PublicNet: 26 September, 2011

In Tough Calls Allan Leighton focuses on specific decisions he has made in the course of his career – at ASDA, Royal Mail and elsewhere – and describes the thought processes behind them.

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THE WORK PROGRAMME

Abstracts, PublicNet: 23 September, 2011

The Work Programme is a new payment-for-results welfare-to-work scheme that was launched in June 2011. This document from the department for Work and Pensions describes how the Programme was designed to overcome the weaknesses of previous initiatives for getting people back to work.

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF LEADERSHIP

Book News, PublicNet: 22 September, 2011

The author, Jeffrey Gitomer, describes the 12.5 strengths of responsible, reliable, remarkable leaders that create results, rewards, and resilience.

What makes a leader relevant? It’s not their place of employment, job title, experience, or status in life it’s their resilience. The true measure of any leader is his or her ability to react based on past experience and gut feelings, respond in real time to current circumstances, and then to recover quickly and move on with new lessons learned.

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UNIVERSITIES URGED TO ENGAGE WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES

Headlines, PublicNet: 21 September, 2011

Engagement with communities at the moment is only marginal to the organisation, funding, management and strategic control of universities. More should be done to promote engagement and make university knowledge readily accessible for the benefit of excluded communities. This is the main finding from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Current policy pressures on universities to focus on improving their research excellence and to widen participation make it hard for them to engage meaningfully with excluded communities. This reduces their benefits for excluded communities.

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COMMUNTIES TO HAVE A SAY IN RUNNING POST OFFICES

Headlines, PublicNet: 20 September, 2011

The Government has revealed plans to turn Post Office Ltd into a mutual organisation. This would allow communities, subpostmasters and customers to have a say in how they are managed. There would be a major investment programme which would seek to make the Post Office the ‘Front Office for Government with a new commercial focus and a strong community purpose.

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GETTING A GRIP OF TELECOM COSTS

Features, PublicNet: 15 September, 2011

Ben Mendoza explains how Telecom Expense Management solutions make it possible to keep track of the spend on telecoms and to check the accuracy of supplier’s invoices. But there are pitfalls and he offers advice on getting a solution that meets the need.

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AIRPORT TERMINMAL BUILDING TECHNIQUE TO CUT COST OF SCHOOLS

Headlines, PublicNet: 14 September, 2011

Liverpool City Council is to use a new design concept to halve the cost of building schools. They will be built under a structure similar to a modern airport terminal building. This will reduce the cost of a traditional build by about half. The concept also offers more flexibility as the internal layout and even the entire use of the site can be changed in the future.

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CUTTING COSTS WITHOUT CUTTING CORNERS

Features, PublicNet: 9 September, 2011

Faced with anxiety over potential job losses and extra pressure in overstretched departments, for staff in the public sector, occupational health and safety has never been more important. This feature looks at cutting costs without cutting corners

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