At EightyTwenty Insight we have developed a range of training solutions to help you understand the sourcing world and keep up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations. These workshops have proved to be very popular and we are continuing to expand on the suite of workshops to meet interest. Topics include:

• A series of sourcing workshops for the National School of Governments 'Achieving More With Less' programme. Detail of the programme and how to book can be found on the National School's website.
• Are you Really Ready to Share?
• Commissioning and Sourcing - From Rhetoric to Reality
• Creating Successful Partnerships
• Imagine Procurement that Helps not Hinders!
• Outsourcing and Joint Ventures: Harnessing the Market
• Pepping up your Partnership
• So you want to be a Commissioner!
• Sourcing and European Procurement
• Sourcing, Partnerships and Making them Work

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Our Workshops

Are you Really Ready to Share?
Delivering effective shared services

This full day workshop will cover topics including:

• Making the argument for shared services;
• Exploring the options and creating a business case;
• Building a partnership based on trust;
• Designing the implementation programme;
• Establishing effective governance arrangements;
• Managing people change and transition;
• Harvesting the benefits and injecting a commercial edge.

For more information, please download the registration flyer here.

Commissioning and Sourcing - From Rhetoric to Reality
Effective commissioning and sourcing

This workshop will cover the following topics:

• Understanding strategic commissioning and sourcing;
• Strategic drivers, sourcing options and case studies;
• Effective research, consultation and co-creation;
• Rethinking organisational structure and business models;
• Sourcing strategy design and the sourcing journey; and
• Creating the conditions for successful partnerships.

For more information, please download the registration flyer here.

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Creating Successful Partnerships
Creating and delivering successful sourcing programmes

Workshop topics include:

• Understanding strategic commissioning and sourcing;
• Strategic drivers, sourcing options and case studies;
• Sourcing strategy design and the sourcing journey;
• Sourcing methodology, data and programme management;
• The art of delivering shared services partnerships;
• The science of commercial constructs in outsourcing deals;
• Making tendering work for both parties; and
• Managing the critical challenges in sourcing programmes.

Imagine Procurement that Helps not Hinders
Making the procurement process work for you

This workshop covers topics including:

• Understanding strategic commissioning and sourcing;
• Developing effective category management capability;
• Collective buying and accessing frameworks including Catalyst;
• New developments in procure-pay processes;
• Generating compliance and avoiding waste and fraud; and
• Managing the market - encouraging SMEs.

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Outsouring and Joint Ventures: Harnessing the Market

Local government in the UK has led the world in its use of the private sector, harnessing its expertise to deliver service improvements, inward investment and reduced costs.  Despite the successes, the experience has not always been positive for both sides.  In this one-day programme, we help authorities to understand the market better – and the changes needed to become a good client and to get the most out of private sector partners.

This workshop will cover the following topics:

• The services on offer from the private sector and the changing shape of the provider marketplace..
• The varying business models of service providers and the impact on the commercial constructs in outsourcing deals.
• The steps needed to become a ‘partner of choice’ and to ensure that you are attracting a competitive and appropriate field of potential partners.
• The sourcing procurement journey and how to ensure that the tendering process works for all parties.
• Framework agreements and the option of creating your own framework agreement.
• The disciplines of governance and the conditions needed to ensure that a partnership is a success and remains a success.
  
  

Pepping up your Partnership
Reinvigorating or regenerating tired outsourcing deals

Workhop topics include:

• Developments in strategic commissioning and sourcing;
• Reviewing your partnership mopdel in the new world;
• Creating your preferred new sourcing outcomes;
• Re-engineering your partnership to match your new objectives;
• The science of commercial constructs in outsourcing deals; and
• Renegotiating your deal - the possibilities and the limits.

Sourcing and European Procurement
Understanding European procurement rules and choosing the right approach

This workshop will cover the following topics:

• Understanding strategic commissioning and sourcing;
• The European procurement rules and options;
• Dialogue without the burden of 'competitive'dialogue;
• Reducing the cost of procurement and making it faster;
• Creating procurement processes that add value; and
• Making use of frameworks - how straightforward are they?

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Sourcing, Partnerships and Making them Work

The course is designed for anyone who is either embarking on a partnership and sourcing programme or who wants to take stock and see how they can improve the arrangements they already have in place.

Whether you are driven by the need for substantial savings or better service outcomes, the course will help. The course examines how to ensure that the commissioning, procurement and governance processes serve your objectives rather than get in the way; we offer insights into the techniques that can be used to generate innovation and creativity in partnerships; and we outline the key steps needed to ‘Legislate for Success’.

So you want to be a Commissioner!
Strategic sourcing and client skills

This workshop covers topics including:

• Understanding strategic commissioining and sourcing;
• Effective research, consultation and co-creation;
• Sourcing strategy design and the sourcing journey;
• Sourcing methodology and programme management;
• 'Legislating for Success'- creating positive governance;
• Negotiating for lasting, ppositive results; and
• Managing performance and stimulating creativity.

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