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Home > Current Projects NHSBEX - A Benchmarking Exchange Programme for NHS Organisations interested in comparing back-office support activities and identtifying leading practices Atos Consulting is providing a Benchmarking Exchange programme for NHS Back Office Services such as Finance, HR, ICT, Facilities, commencing January/February 2008. The twelve-month programme will use the web-based ScoreCard provided by Score Research (part of Atos Consulting) to collect data and provide comparative benchmarks. Atos Consulting ScoreCard database is already populated by many private and public sector organisations; NHSBEX participants will be able to compare both against the NHSBEX members and, where applicable, the wider database population. Anonymity of organisations is preserved by providing statistical aggregation in the form of quartile ranges. Participation Founder group members (committing before 31st January 2008) will receive preferential terms of participation; so far we have firm commitment from seven shared service organisations and a high degree of interest from many more. It is important that participants can commit to providing data to a quarterly timetable and can provide suitably knowledgeable delegates to attend web meetings and exchange workshops. Benefits of participation
Why benchmark? Whatever stage of transformation your organisation is at, aspirations often become diluted and it is important to energise them with relevant up-to-date metrics and supporting practices.
Resources required The programme is designed in a manner that allows participants to plan their effort over the full twelve-month period. Quarterly reviews ensure that sufficient progress is made by all members to enable meaningful exchanges; while those who wish to progress ahead of others can do so. Clearly there is a need to commit resources to providing comparative data, however every effort is made to minimise that resource.
The online ScoreCard provides benchmarking reports and Atos Consulting will provide workshop summaries of the exchange programme outputs. You will need to allow some time to share the results and their implications with your colleagues. Programme Outline
Membership Fees The all-inclusive founder member fee for the twelve-month exchange programme, reviews, webinars, workshops, online ScoreCard access and support is £7,500 (plus VAT). We anticipate that the programme will run for a second year and maybe beyond – Inaugural members will continue to receive preferential terms of membership. Founder members fees for subsequent years will be reduced by 5% per new member introduced. Commercial terms and ScoreCard License terms of use are available on request. The membership fee after 31st January 2008 will be £9,500 (plus VAT). Next steps We are excited by the prospect of working with the NHSBEX group and keen to ensure we move forward as soon as possible. In the first instance we require your confirmation of participation by writing or emailing Ian Malcolm (contact details Page 1 footer). We will then send our commercial terms and Licence agreement for your approval and signature. When we have your signed agreement we will provide access to the ScoreCard and also send you the bill for the full fee. Please ensure that your application is received before 31st January, to take advantage of founder member terms.
Finance & Accounting Benchmarking programmes are available covering F&A, HR and ICT. Programm objectives:
Our benchmarking programmes make use of our integrated toolset:
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