Emphasising efficiency through collaborative knowledge sharing & problem solving

Dr Gordon Murray

12 November 2010 www.local.gov.uk

Your challenges

1. Use two green post-its

2. Write the name of your council on each post-it

3. Then write your personal view of your council’s two challenges in addressing efficiency gains (one per post-it)

4. Place post-its on the wall

5. Scan the range of challenges identified by others

6. Play ‘snap’ and cluster post-its in related themes/groups

Sharing your success

1. Using two orange post-its

2. Write the name of your council on each post-it

3. Then write two successes/strengths which you have (one per post-it)

4. Place post-its on flipcharts against the earlier themes where you think your success/strength is relevant

5. Collectively, if at all possible, try to aim for one success married to a challenge theme.

If I was in your shoes …

1. Scan the themes and challenges

2. Using two blue post-its

3. In response to the challenges, give your view of “If I was in your shoes ….”

4. Place in the area of the relevant theme

Imagine a tool for …

Collaborative KnowledgeSharing

CollaborativeProblem Solving

On-line conferences,

debates, hotseats

Benchmarkingwith signpoststo improvement

A library which is comprehensive

& intuitive

Realtime document co-

production

Efficiency Exchange

The Efficiency Exchange

• It’s free of change

• It’s in place

• It’s would benefit from you

• Your contributions would benefit others

What to do if you want to join?

You follow the link to: http://tinyurl.com/yguz8gq and register, it takes less than five minutes!

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Efficiency Exchange

Dr Gordon Murray

12 November 2010 www.lgid.gov.uk