Increasing efficiency through flexible working
9.00 Registration and Refreshments in exhibition area
9.30 Welcome and introduction
Chair, Ken Eastwood, Assistant Director, Regulatory Services, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Founder of Public Sector Nomads
9.40 Surviving the challenges
Jon Watkinson, Founder, The Trusted Network
- Flexible working being used by one-fifth of employers to avoid job cuts
- Addressing the financial and service challenges faced by Local Authorities in the face of budget cuts.
10.15 2020 Vision - The Future of Work
Chair, Ken Eastwood, Assistant Director, Regulatory Services, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Founder of Public Sector Nomads
- How will the way we work change over the next decade?
- What are the issues to be addressed?
- What does this mean for Regulatory Services?
10.45 Question and answer session
10.50 Refreshment break and exhibition
11.15 Adapting to Change, Building the Business Case
Robert Halford, Director, RH Environmental Limited and Chair, Ken Eastwood, Assistant Director, Regulatory Services, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Founder of Public Sector Nomads
- Outline the drivers that led to the development of an online management system to support service delivery
- How this system has since adapted in a recessionary environment
- The barriers encountered and building the business case for new ways of working.
- It will include a case study from delivering flexible services
11.45 Question and answer
12:00 Driving Efficiencies and improving service with BlackBerry® solutions
Graham Baker, Senior Manager, UK Public Sector Sales, Blackberry
The critical success factors when considering implementing a mobile data project
What are the business benefits that can be produced?
How BlackBerry can help increase efficiencies and effectiveness
How BlackBerry has been deployed within Environmental Health
12.30 Lunch and exhibition
13.30 Consilium Technologies Sponsor session
David Cockayne, Business Development Manager, Consilium Technologies
- How Consilium Technologies has been deployed and used in LIVE environments with examples covering food hygiene, pest control and noise pollution
14.00 Concept, Calamity and Change.
Mobile Working in South Gloucestershire.
Mark Pullin , Trading Standards & Licensing Manager and Kevin Evans.
- Planning
- Setbacks and successes (technical & practical)
- Change (the management of staff and processes)
14.30 Discussion and feedback
14:45 Refreshment break and exhibition
15.15 Working Towards a 2012 Mobile Workforce
Steve Miller , Head of Public Protection, London Borough of Newham
- A case study of Newham Borough Council's Experience of Mobile Working
- Mobile Working for the Worker & Manager
- Mobile Regulatory Services for the 2012 Olympics
15.50 Session tbc
16.30 Close