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Atkins' Approach to Educational ICT Consultancy

Atkins are listed suppliers on all three lots of Becta’s Educational ICT Consultancy framework (Educational, Technical and Procurement) and can support our clients from the initial educational and ICT visioning, right through to procurement and management of the associated implementation. Whichever stage of the project we are engaged at, we always focus on the educational justifi cation for each decision and intervention.

Atkins in the City

Delivering results
Atkins has established the reputation in the City as the company that ‘always delivers’. Our reputation is based on over 20 years of experience, working with a variety of customers.

Pan-London School Admissions

The Pan-London School Admissions Project was funded by Communities and Local Government. It was led by Wandsworth Council and drew upon resources from across the capital. Atkins provided programme and project management services for all aspects of the project including the technical development and the implementation across 33 London boroughs and 6 neighbouring authorities. We also helped define the service management requirements and managed the transition to the operational service provider. The project was one of the largest and most successful examples of information sharing across local authorities ever undertaken. It has delivered major improvements to the secondary school admissions process across the capital.

Information Sharing and Identity Management... Challenges and Solutions

This paper sets out the main challenges for public sector data sharing and identity management and proposes some solutions to these challenges. It identifies areas where central government has a role to play in facilitating this initiative. We also outline the Atkins approach to delivering a successful information sharing programme.

Citizen Information Project

A Study led by Lord Carter for the Public Services Productivity Panel indicated that government could provide better services at a lower cost if basic citizen information was held in a common population register, rather than being dispersed across departmental databases. The Treasury sponsored the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to carry out a feasibility study and Atkins was commissioned to provide consultancy

ContactPoint

Atkins has been the lead client-side advisory firm since the beginning of a major project, led by the DfES, to implement the national ContactPoint project (formerly known as the Information Sharing Index).

Identity Management

Atkins has extensive experience of information and identity management issues within Government. We have been at the forefront of initiatives to provide joined up citizen services and to help realise the strategic vision of transformational government.

Enterprise project office solution for local government

An easy to use, flexible solution for practical portfolio programme and project management (PPPM) in organisations with a mix of large and small projects and staff ranging from the expert to the novice – giving access to the specific information and level of help each individual needs.

Improving Information Sharing

This Discussion Paper makes specific recommendations for what policy, business and ICT managers in organisations across the public sector can and should do today, in order to support (or forge ahead of!) the overall CIO Council-led initiative. While it certainly does not provide all the answers to this complex but most vital of issues, it provides an experience-based view of some valuable, priority actions.

PPPM business solutions

Atkins helps you embed effective Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (PPPM) in your organisation. Our services and diagnostic tools enable you to identify the focus for improvement, develop appropriate processes to meet your challenges and select tools to match.

Delivering transformational government

“Delivering public services based around the needs of citizens and businesses must start with an understanding of what citizens and businesses need.” Varney 2006.

Whatever your organisation, the need to embrace the transformational government agenda is vital. This is policy – but how do you make it happen, make it tangible and deliver results? In driving towards delivery there are a number of questions that need to be answered.

Competency Based Consulting Skills Programme

This paper describes a highly successful piece of work delivered in 2006 to a major local authority.

The purpose of the programme was to create an effective Internal Consultancy capacity within an HR function which would then be enabled to operate in a fully facilitative manner across the whole authority, providing a previously unavailable degree of professional support to colleagues in other areas. Whilst the work in this example was related to HR it could apply equally to any support function and indeed to virtually any kind of organisation.