Nick MellorsNick Mellors
Nick Mellors is Director of ISPB, a consultancy specialising in delivering public sector change and transformation projects. He has over 30 years' public sector experience, including as part of the senior management team establishing a cross-government finance shared service. He was a founder member of the central government shared services forum before moving to the private sector and authoring Whitehall Shared Services best practice guidance and supporting the local government shared services forum. He is also author of "The IS Department as a Profitable Company", published by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Government shared services: how much longer?
In a previous article I compared the success of Tate & Lyle’s launch of shared services in ten months with the ten-year gestation period for the Research Councils in the UK. So how is the Cabinet Office, with the support...
Nick Mellors | 24 January 2012 | Articles, Functions Other, Europe, UK, All Columns,
External hosting of HR systems is "still unproven"?
Talking to the IT manager from one of the UK’s well respected universities about options for replacing some of their corporate systems, I was surprised to hear him say "external hosting of HR systems is still unproven". This...
Nick Mellors | 15 November 2011 | Articles, HR, Global, All Columns, IT,
Ten months or ten years: implementing change
In one of those unfortunate news coincidences a National Audit Office (NAO) report on the difficulties facing the seven UK Research Councils (RCUK) establishing a back office shared service centre was published on the same day...
Nick Mellors | 21 October 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,
'Back office' shared services and 100 years of scientific management
For many managers and consultants the essence of developing so-called ‘back office’ shared services seems to be that there is a single perfect process which can be applied to each type of transaction; by then combining all...
Nick Mellors | 05 October 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,
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