Organisational Performance: Managing delivery within budget

About the workshop
The pressure to get value for money from public services has never been greater. The demand and expectation from our public services is typically rising faster than the budgets available. The challenge for every manager is to decide what services to prioritise for its citizens and to deliver cost savings at the same time. How can public service managers deliver strong results in such circumstances?

This workshop focuses on the practical steps needed to maximise organisational cost-effectiveness and how we can drive performance improvements and deliver cost-savings at the same time. In particular, we explore how performance frameworks can be used to raise standards, budget setting and monitoring, how to identify and deliver cost-savings and the governance arrangements needed to oversee progress. Whether you are a team manager, executive leader or a politician, we all need to be confident that our organisations are delivering as much as they can within the resources available.

What the workshop will cover
The workshop will include briefings, discussion sessions and practical case study material. It aims to be highly interactive, and you are encouraged to: share your experiences with other participants; debate the potential added value of applying some of the features of models used in the UK; and consider skills and resources required to develop a framework for performance management and budgetary control.

How participants will benefit
You will be able to:
• Understand performance management and budget setting in its organisational context
• Apply the concept of value for money to programmes and other initiatives
• Experience developments in good practice and lessons learnt from the UK and other countries
• Share your own experiences of managing and implementing performance management systems and budgetary control with other participants
• Explore how these developments may be introduced and/or implemented in your organisation.