It might sound like a paradox but the new Coalition Government combines a commitment to public services and a need to address a huge deficit. We can help you square the circle. All of Vision Alignment Partners' approaches are designed for the challenge of achieving more with significantly lower resources.

Are you looking for a clear vision of how to do things differently?

Organisational Vision Alignment is a rapid intervention that helps you understand your challenges, create a compelling transforming vision, and produce a blueprint for increasing value, focusing resources and removing waste. Our service can be directed and reflective or highly interactive in combination with vision workshop experts from our colleagues at Group Partners.

Typical cost £50-100k. Typical payback*: 3 months from implementation.

Are you wondering how to plan delivery with significantly less resources?

Our Strategic Planning support can be a 6 week intervention or support your normal planning cycle. We use Advanced Strategy Mapping techniques developed specifically for UK Public Sector challenges, recognising the tensions between setting effective goals and being a good public sector organisation. Breaking the cycle of planning to be busy and changing mindsets to planning to achieve. Challenging all activity to identify what works, what is missing, and what is misaligned or wasted effort. For a typical government agency our consultants found seven missing delivery areas, management reporting and targets pushing in the wrong direction, and enough wasted activity to drive significant savings.

Typical cost £50-100k. Typical payback*: 3 months from implementation.

Have you already decided to Transform your delivery?

Fundamental Transformation is the only way to do more with 30% less, but around 80% of transformation efforts fail to transform anything. Transformation does not mean new SAP systems, dependency on armies of consultants, de-layering management, or just downsizing staffing or services; but a complete rethink of where value is or could be created - backed by zero base budgeting to align and justify all costs. Our Challenge80 approach helps us to help you create step change and de-risk your transformation by creating a "Greenfield" that allows you to test transformed services without risking existing delivery. Our formula of advice, guidance, good guidance, skills transfer, change delivery, and innovation gives you rapid success, no dependency and clear ownership.

Typical cost £100-200k. Typical payback*: 6 weeks from implementation.

But don't we need to stop using consultants

We absolutely agree that the public sector needs to stop using consultants "for the wrong things" which is why our e-book "The Power is in the Thinking" reviews what adds value and what is just expensive waste or bought in dependency.

Too many "consulting" projects involve large armies of graduates as surrogate doers building unnecessary "solutions" to non fundamental problems.

Our approach is very different. Small teams of experienced Advisors that challenge and support your organisation with no pre-conceptions, for low budgets, giving rapid payback and supporting improved public services at significantly reduced cost.

No Procurement Cost

Vision Alignment Partners are a low overhead SME network and - as a member of the AMTEC Consortium on the OGC Buying Solutions Management Consulting and Account Services framework - are available to any public sector organisation for low or no procurement costs.

Let Us Show You the Value

Let us show you how we can make the paradox work for you, by discussing your needs and our commitment to giving value - whether fixed fee or flexible reward share pricing.

To find out more email us at: DontJustCut@visionalignment.com

*Typical paybacks based on previous UK interventions

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Vision Alignment Partners is pleased to sponsor "Turning Government on its Head". A key afternoon session intended to challenge thinking about Government and the wider Public Sector and set out why the Coalition Government has not just tasked us to "Do more with less" but to fundamentally challenge the way we govern.

We say "Don't Just Cut, Re-imagine". Every existing problem has a Greenfield solution, and Big Society and CSR challenges mean you would never have built today's organisations, so why start from yesterday's legacy when you are looking to create tomorrow's Government.

The Big Society offers a different type of Government, local decision making, local involvement, thoughtful business plans not micro managed targets; a positive new world, but only if we are prepared to open our minds, challenge current thinking, engage stakeholders, plan to achieve, and Re-imagine.

Vision Alignment Partners add challenging twists to the Big Society debate, including "why not apply re-imagine thinking to create a role for the people and resources who will be leaving the Public Sector?"

Vision Alignment Partners' Andrew Wiles is joined by other free thinkers in Jonathan Baume, Christopher Graham, and session Chair Maurice Frankel.

Join us at the conference or contact us for more information.

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Buying Solutions Framework Agreement and VAP Services

Vision Alignment Partners, a member of the consortium, is pleased to announce that the AMTEC Consortium has been successfully awarded a place on the Buying Solution's Management Consultancy and Accounting Services (MCAS) Framework Agreement. This agreement gives all UK public sector organisations access to this service, providing an easier route to procurement using pre-agreed T&Cs at competitive prices.

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