We have always tried to combine policy and practice in our work. Increasingly, this has meant improving the knowhow content of what we do - and the services we offer to our clients. The major example of this is the regeneration and renewal knowledge management system, renewal.net.
Drawing on several different applications of outcome planning, and a range of assignments, we have produced a 'briefing note' which helps to assess several different approaches to outcome planning.
Several of our clients - Birmingham and Coventry LSPs, for example - have begun to make much more extensive use of joint outcome planning across a wide range of service areas in which performance improvement is a concern.
We have found that delivery chain mapping helps with evaluations and performance improvement activity. Basing our approach on Audit Commission research, we have helped develop better understanding of how delivery chains operate in the context of
We have helped with numerous partnership reviews over the years. The need to efficiently and meaningfully review partnerships is even more topical now that