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I build frameworks for project and program management, monitoring, and reporting. Let me use my 15 years’ experience setting up and delivering more than £50M worth of large-scale innovation programs in the UK and Europe to help you deliver your projects and programs.

I build the foundations you need to make programs work, and to let you scale your activities and add impact.

I specialise in developing and building frameworks to enable program/project management, monitoring, and reporting.

Building the right foundations and setting up appropriate management frameworks will give you the tools successfully manage your projects and programs. They will help you to understand what you’re doing and why, and will give you structures that help you to manage and report on activities, impact, and outcomes.

How I can help you succeed:

Project and program design and management:

Program design – from inception through delivery to close-out.
Managing identification and tracking of KPIs, outcomes and reporting
Processes, tools and approaches to manage programmes and deliver impact
Developing content strategies to communicate impact to target audiences
Setting up contacting and legal frameworks

KPIs, data management, reporting, outcomes, impact:

Building management/reporting systems to help successfully deliver projects
Building KPI/management/CRM/reporting systems that work for staff, managers and funders
Building models to link activities, processes and pipelines with KPIs and outcomes.
Delivering content and reporting on activities and outcomes

How can I help you successfully set up, manage, and deliver your projects and programs? Get in touch and let’s talk!

Project portfolio:

SmartCities – Next Generation e-government and e-services

Like! – Building a Digital Innovation Culture

UK Carbon Capture & Storage Research Centre

BLING – Blockchain IN Government

Cancer Innovation Challenge

Project and Program Management articles and case studies:

Exploring How To Link Innovation, Partnerships And Platforms

In this podcast with fluido I talk about how innovation is enabled by a combination of people, processes, and technology.

Introducing ‘Blockchain And Government In Europe’ – Lessons From BLING

'Introducing ‘Blockchain and Government in Europe’ – lessons from BLING'

BLING has just published my latest magazine – Blockchain and Government in Europe. This 84 page magazine brings together 11 interviews and 8 new blockchain use-cases to explore the state of Blockchain in Government in Europe.

Creating A Content Strategy To Support The Development Of Local Digital Innovation Cultures In Cities Across Europe – Learning From Like!

'Creating a content strategy to support the development of local digital innovation cultures in cities across Europe – Learning from Like!'

LIKE! supported the development of local ‘innovation cultures’ in cities across Europe. Our content strategy pulled together the findings and key lessons learned into a set of 4 magazines. Learn why we took this approach

With a focus on making content accessible to a wide audience, the magazines covered key themes and showcased the value of international collaborations within the project.

See The LIKE! Magazine Video Introducing Our Work On ‘innovation Cultures’

See a video intro to the set of magazines I wrote earlier this year that capture everything that the LIKE! project has learned about accelerating innovation and building capacity by developing ‘innovation cultures’.

The Like! Cycle – A New Model For Building Sustainable Innovation Cultures

'The Like! Cycle – a new model for building sustainable innovation cultures'

I developed the ‘LIKE Cycle’ as an iterative model for capacity development and innovation that builds upon everything we’ve learned delivering the LIKE! project. The LIKE Cycle is a both a pathway for individual and organisational skills development, and a roadmap for service innovation and development.

Creating Digital DNA For Cities And Neighbourhoods – Learning From The Like! Project

'Creating Digital DNA for Cities and Neighbourhoods – Learning from the Like! project'

LIKE! has been developing new ways for cities and communities to use data – to design and deliver better services, and to make better policy decisions for communities.

The ‘Creating Digital DNA’ work in LIKE! has focused on 3 areas: 1) Digital dashboards, 2) Local data for local services, and 3) the Internet of things (IoT).

The BLING Approach To Enabling Blockchain In Government

Learn how BLING (Blockchain in Government) plans to accelerate and de-risk the development and deployment of blockchain-enabled e-services in the North Sea Region of Europe.

The One Thing You Can’t Get Wrong When You Cost A (research) Project

'The one thing you can’t get wrong when you cost a (research) project'

A key risk faced by many projects is they didn’t make sure that they had enough staff to deliver what they promised.

I’ll tell you why this is such a big deal to funders and managers, and how you can change your approach to better manage this risk.

Introducing BLING – BLockchain IN Government

BLING – BLockchain in Government – is a €5M collaboration of 13 organisations – governments, cities and universities – who are exploring how governments can use blockchain to enable the next generation of smart services.

Managing Risk By Design – Lessons For Innovation Projects From The Cancer Challenge

Key lessons in how to structure a high-risk project that keeps funders happy and give you flexibility in managing innovation programmes.

6 Lessons For Innovation Projects From The Cancer Innovation Challenge

Key lessons in how to structure a high-risk project that keeps funders happy and give you flexibility in managing innovation programmes.

Creating A ‘Digital Innovation Culture’ – A New Way To Increase Local Innovation Capacity Developed For The Like! Project

Like! is a €4.2M Interreg Vb project that is developing a ‘local innovation culture’ approach to address the underlying capacity issues that are hampering the improvement of e-government and e-services.

Like! – Building A Digital Innovation Culture

Like! aims to significantly enhance the capacity of the public sector to facilitate and deliver innovation, resulting in the development of a wide range of services using innovative solutions to deliver better public services.

Introducing LIKE! – Building Local Digital Innovation Cultures

Like! is a €4.2M Interreg Vb project that I set up in 2016 to stimulate innovation in the public sector, and to deliver new solutions that improved public services.

Lessons From The Smart Cities Academic Network

'Lessons from the Smart Cities Academic Network'

I spent three years managing the Smart Cities Academic Network, which was set up to provide support to the Smart Cities Project. This case study summarises the SCAN approach and identifies the key outcomes.

The Smart Cities Approach To Developing Better E-government

'The Smart Cities approach to developing better e-government'

Smart Cities prioritised improving customer services, adopting user profiling in service design/deliver, and exploring the potential of wireless services.

The project used a combination of co-design, targeted academic research, and mainstreaming/public engagement approaches to deliver high-impact and high-profile results that were used to make cities smarter across Europe.

Making Academic Research Accessible – The Smart City Academic Network Approach

The Smart Cities Academic Network developed a systemic, accessible approach to knowledge production and dissemination that was designed to accelerate the development of e-services and e-government in Europe.

Introducing OpeningUP – Using Social Media And Open Data To Deliver Better Services

'Introducing OpeningUP – using social media and open data to deliver better services'

OpeningUp looked at how governments could use social media to deliver better services, and how to leverage the potential of open data to deliver better targeted and more effective services.

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Programme Design and Management resources:

'Creating Smarter Cities – Lessons from the Smart Cities Project'

Creating Smarter Cities – Lessons from the Smart Cities Project

'Improving business processes and delivering better e-services – a Smart Cities resource'

Improving business processes and delivering better e-services – a Smart Cities resource

'Using GIS for better e-services – a Smart Cities resource'

Using GIS for better e-services – a Smart Cities resource

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