Local Government
Change is Essential
Only 18% of local authority chief executives and corporate directors feel that their organisations are in really good shape to cope with the changes they face. Local government is tackling unprecedented change and demand for services that affects everything from long term strategy to day-to-day service delivery. Fujitsu’s innovative solutions can help you:
- Save money through the power of sharing
Fujitsu can create solutions for shared services ventures when two or more councils come together to create efficiencies in their local authorities. - Generate Savings
Fujitsu can deliver you savings against your current budget challenges. - Bringing innovation
Fujitsu’s innovative approach to the public and private sector alike results in modern systems, which can make a measurable impact on organisational goals. - Creating intelligence out of data
Fujitsu helps turn that data into intelligence to help local authorities understand their citizens better and improve service delivery. - Delivering agility
Fujitsu offers local authorities agility through technology: helping to deliver existing services better; and new services more quickly and efficiently, thereby cutting costs.
Fujitsu at work: Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire County Councils
“With Fujitsu’s help, Local Government Shared Services (LGSS) has proved that shared services in government is not just good theory, but a practical means of delivering services more cheaply. In fact, the two founding councils have jointly saved £13.5m since the establishment of LGSS four years ago, and have recently successfully expanded outside of their geographic region, to deliver services to Norwich City Council.”
Read the full LGSS Case study
Fujitsu at work: Gravesham Borough Council
- Detect fraud cases using predictive analytics
- Reduce investigator’s workload while prioritising high-risk properties
Benefits
- Fraud Reduction – confident identification of fraud cases for action, with 45 instances of housing tenancy fraud discovered during the proof-of-concept phase alone alongside giving the authority confidence that the rest of the housing is used legitimately.
- Greater Speed – faster discovery of potential fraud cases together with their values.
- Enhanced productivity – better use of specialist staff time.
- Reduced paperwork – target cases are identified automatically, saving the need for laborious paper file handling
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Bolton Council: Fujitsu Application Outsourcing Services Supports Council's Future Vision
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Fujitsu provides Bolton Council with IT support services including desktop, server and network management, and systems development and implementation. After working with Fujitsu for several years, the Council has recently renewed its outsourcing contract for a further three years.
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LGSS
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With Fujitsu’s help, LGSS has proved that shared services in government are not just good theory, but a practical means of delivering services more cheaply.
Insights & Opinions
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Share and share alike
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Motivated by a need to drive efficiencies and reduce costs, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils in the UK have taken the lead when it comes to reaping the rewards of shared services.
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Making Mobile Solutions
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David Rosewell and Craig Merrick of Fujitsu argue that public sector organisations that equip their workforces with powerful mobile solutions can reap multiple benefits, in particular: maintaining front-line services in the face of budget cuts, boosting efficiency, and cutting costs. However, doing this requires careful planning and business change management.
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The Gen Y Business Experience
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There has been wide speculation that the behaviour of the Net Generation will shake up organisations. But direct feedback from this new workforce points to a subtler story.
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Better Counsel for Councils:
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The UK’s local authorities face the daunting challenge of having to dramatically cut expenditure while simultaneously improving services. Fujitsu's Mark Nicholls argues that a fresh approach to "citizen insight" is urgently needed to streamline the take-up, accessibility and user experience of council services.
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Taking the Sting out of Public Sector Cuts
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Fujitsu’s Mark Nicholls and Andy Fuller say government departments and local authorities can save billions lost through fraud and error if they adopt an innovative approach to detection already being pioneered by one large public sector organisation. The system and related processes can be implemented quickly and at zero upfront cost, while at the same time improving both the speed of service for claimants and the morale of claims processing staff. With government departments needing to do more for less, this an opportunity that mustn't be squandered.
News
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Fujitsu Awarded Fourteen New Services on CloudStore III
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The Government Procurement Service has confirmed that Fujitsu UK & Ireland has been awarded a place on the relevant lots for 14 new services on G-Cloudiii, adding to the existing 28 standardised services the IT services expert already has available on the Cloudstore.
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Rudus sticks with Fujitsu's Patja
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Aggregate and ready-mixed concrete producer and supplier Rudus Oy has signed a five-year continuation agreement with ICT services producer Fujitsu Services Oy. The two final years are optional. Rudus adopted the Patja service in 2004. Overall, the company has some 600 workstations at its nearly 200 offices in Finland.
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Local Government Authorities Are Failing to Keep Up With the Pace of Change
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Local Government leaders in the UK are failing to keep up with the increasing rate of change that they face, putting them at risk of losing funding and negatively impacting service delivery to their citizens.
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Fujitsu Helps Gravesham Borough Council Tackle Social Housing Fraud
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Each year housing tenancy, benefit and council tax fraud such as false entitlement, illegal sub-letting, lease sell-on and unauthorised succession, cost the UK’s local authorities in excess of £1.3bn.
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Business High-Flyer to Help Community Projects in Salford
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An Altrincham resident is taking time out of her job as an HR manager at Fujitsu this week for a 12-month secondment in the city of Salford, supporting a range of good causes in the local community.
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Business High-Flyer to Help Community Projects in Basingstoke
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A local resident left her current role as a business manager for Fujitsu’s Defence and National Security division this week for a 12-month secondment in the Basingstoke and Deane District, supporting a range of good causes in the local community.
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