Continuous Improvement Support for Sheffield City Region Business Start-Up Launchpad

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Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council awarded a contract to Innovate Now Ltd for continuous improvement support for the Sheffield City Region Business Start-Up Support 'Launchpad' specification.

The support included developing a Continuous Improvement Implementation Plan, reviewing activity to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, opportunities, and best practice, reviewing governance structures and management information, evaluating and developing procedures and processes, exploring efficient ways of working including flexible ICT-enabled workstyles, delivering improvement workshops for problem solving and process mapping, facilitating discussions with exemplar start-up projects, sharing new ideas and enhancements, increasing interaction with schools, colleges, and universities, enhancing links between internal and external stakeholders, conducting value for money assessment and benchmarking, providing basic, intermediate, and advanced training on LEAN tools and techniques, establishing a dedicated Continuous Improvement Delivery team, developing a CPD communications plan and culture, creating a continuation plan with recommendations post-31 March 2019, and identifying opportunities for additional funding.

The contract value was AUD 60,000.