Archive for Transformation
Groundbreaking work starts
Birmingham City Council this week officially launched works on its new office building at Woodcock Street in Aston, which will deliver efficiency savings, improve services and create local jobs for local people.
The new office is a key element of the authority’s plans to deliver over £200million of gross savings by streamlining its office portfolio through [...]
Residents have it mapped thanks to new feature
The first of several enhancements planned for Birmingham City Council’s new website has launched.
All visitors to www.birmingham.gov.uk can now use My Local Information to easily identify and locate council services of interest to them across the city.
This new feature has been developed using a Geographical Information Solution (GIS) which uses mapping technology to display information [...]
Highway changes as Woodcock Street project progresses
Work continues at pace on Birmingham City Council’s new office building at Woodcock Street in Aston as the project remains on time and on budget.
The next phase of the project will see some important changes to highway restrictions around the site.
This work has been planned and coordinated with the Council’s Highways Department over the last [...]
Websites and savings
An article in the Birmingham Post today reports that £6million of lost savings are due to the delayed launch of the council’s new corporate website, which went live last month.
Glyn Evans, the council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, addresses the points made in the piece…
The report contains two fundamental inaccuracies. First, the website being launched [...]
Council website named as UK’s most improved
Birmingham City Council’s revamped corporate website has been named as the fastest improving in the UK, breaking into the top 20 overall in the process.
The findings, announced by Sitemorse in the September 2009 local government survey, mean Birmingham has leapt 409 places to 20th in the rankings – after four consecutive months at the very [...]
Aston residents given allotment boost
Waste-land in Aston is set to be transformed into allotments for women and children from disadvantaged, social-economic backgrounds thanks to 50 employees from Service Birmingham, Birmingham City Council and other local Capita businesses.
Yesterday (September 24) the volunteers got down to work with a digger, shovels and forks at the site off Upper Sutton Street in Aston [...]
Historic books on display
Books detailing records of Birmingham’s roads from more than a century ago have been rediscovered at a city council office block.
As part of the council’s Working for the Future Business Transformation programme, refurbishment works at 1 Lancaster Circus have meant the teams based there have been having a good clear out before they move back [...]
Historic books found during office moves
Books detailing records of Birmingham’s roads from more than a century ago have been rediscovered at a city council office block.
As part of the council’s Working for the Future Business Transformation programme, refurbishment works at 1 Lancaster Circus have meant the teams based there have been having a good clear out before they move back [...]
Tracking transformation savings
A report that is due to be discussed at the Co-ordinating Overview and Scrutiny (Finance & Performance Sub-) Committee on Friday (September 18) has attracted some coverage in the local media.
As part of the council’s commitment to tracking the £1billion-plus benefits that Business Transformation offer, regular reports are being produced to highlight the progress being [...]
New website - reflecting on responses
Glyn Evans, Birmingham City Council’s Corporate Director of Business Change, reflects on the response to the council’s revamped website www.birmingham.gov.uk
There is interesting coverage on the Birmingham Post website following the launch of our new website.
Let’s be clear. I’m not claiming that the new website is the finished article. Indeed, I don’t think a website is [...]
