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.

Reflecting our focus, we are members of the AMTEC Consortium for the following lots:

Lot 1: Business Strategy Consultancy;

Lot 2: Business Strategy Consultancy - Health;

Lot 3: Business Strategy Consultancy - Local Government;

Lot 4: Organisational and Change Management Consultancy;

Lot 5: Organisational and Change Management Consultancy - Health;

Lot 6: Organisational and Change Management Consultancy - Local Government;

Lot 8: Procurement Consultancy;

Lot 9: Project and Programme Management Consultancy.

For further information call 0870 8030228 or email awiles@visionalignment.com.

ERP Failures Not Caused By Software

In implementing your ERP system are you prioritising the change management activities it requires?
ERP systems, such as SAP, are often seen as a panacea to standardisation and efficiency and a driver for business transformation.
Vision Alignment Partners are increasingly finding implementations where a solid technical solution is let down by a blind spot on the change to processes and behaviours required to extract the benefits or even operate efficiently. A typical scenario seems to feature the selection of an implementation partner to bring in the system and an unspoken belief from both parties that the other is taking on the business change. Having helped an organisation late in the day to rescue its implementation but been unable to extract the planned full benefits we know a business change partner is a small investment with a rapid payback and absolutely essential if your ERP system is meant to deliver fundamental change.
Call us on 0870 80 30 228 to hear more...

SOLACE Annual Conference

As part of our commitment to the UK Public Sector, Vision Alignment Partners has become a sponsor to the SOLACE Annual Conference 2007. We were attracted by the commitment to pragmatic transformation we see in local government and the quality of the programme. Themed "Thinking Global Acting Local" and including sessions on the Long Term Challenges facing the UK from Gordon Brown's Head of Policy, and Local Government and Global Democracy from our outgoing Permanent Representative to the UN, as well as issues closer to home such as Shared Services and the Comprehensive Spending Review 07. We look forward to an interesting dialogue with those entrusted with the future transformation of local government, so see you at the conference.
Programme Information . . .

The Excellence Conference

It was a pleasure to sponsor Public Sector Excellence 2007 and to meet so many delegates. We enjoyed offering our clinic sessions as a chance to discuss a problem or opportunity. Our thanks to those who took up the offer - it certainly gave us an enjoyable challenge and from feedback provided benefit from another view point and a challenge to your thinking. We heard a number of thought provoking views, challenges and successes from the platform.
Here are our thoughts ...

Free Clinics at Leading Public Sector Conference

Fed up with conferences where consultants are selling at you? Vision Alignment Partners is taking a different approach at the Public Sector Excellence Conference 2007 by offering free clinic sessions to help delegates resolve key management challenges or maximise value from opportunities for their organisations.

Recognised Practice Status

VAP is now a "Recognised Practice" of the Institute of Business Consulting, the newly merged and renamed professional body for the business and management consultancy profession. This reflects our continued commitment to the highest professional standards in all our activity; plus our desire for a strong institute to engage with both public and private sector consultancy buyers to champion win/win relationships and less waste in procurement.

Challenging accommodation and workstyle thinking

For clients too - factors like office accommodation set the tone for service and effectiveness. Our recent assignments in local government offer workstyle ideas to create real change and strategic alignment through new ways of working and a completely new strategy for accommodation and public access. Not to mention finding the holes in current process thinking.

Strategic Alliance

Vision Alignment Partners forms strategic alliances where it can make us easier to buy or provide additional benefits to our clients - making our services available thought Catalist listings, offering research and access to leading edge tools for scorecard deployment and information exploitation. Look for more details on our newest alliance with a complementary organisational & financial consultancy - coming soon.

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