OVERVIEW FOR ICW EVENT 19 th October 2016 IMECHE, 1 Birdcage Walk, London Doc Ref: Issue 1 1
Why Bluelightworks? BLW was created to act as enabler to transformation Transformational pressure has shifted focus from mainly financial towards effectiveness in the face of changing demands BLW Evidenced Based Decision Support can help effective delivery of: organisation change business process re-engineering more effective engagement with industry and academia better multi-agency collaboration technology enablers 2
What Challenge does Bluelightworks address? Bluelightworks provides the evidence required to support strategic decision making UK Bluelight organisations deservedly enjoy a high reputation, but face continually increasing demands Reduced resources Changing threats Changing public expectations Recent austerity challenge Many contributory factors that limit success Culture Organisation Fragmentation and lack of integrated vision Diversity of equipment, standards and procedures Ability to divert the best resources Unawareness of successful models in other contexts Lack of expertise in key solution elements 3
Our Aim Statement of Purpose: We will Be the Partner of choice to public safety and criminal justice organisations by Listening to, and valuing, our Customers & Partners to create Evidence Based Decision Support Solutions that Reduce Costs and Risks Solve Problems Identify Benefits within a Partnering Culture that Innovates to Deliver Results 4
Risk Reduction through early Strategic Definition 5
The Journey so Far Established Bluelightworks is now in its 3 rd year; it has matured since its creation in 2013. The Home Office has recognised the potential in the BLW model to access industry s knowledge to better inform key transformation decisions. The Partnership has over 120 organisations, including 70 SMEs and 3 Universities. Evidence Based Exploration Community (EBEC) established to co-ordinate shared interests of: Bluelightworks, CAST, CoP, Home Office, ORB, PICTCo and NCA. Recognised as an innovative model Bluelightworks is now accredited to BS 11000 and was awarded the Chairman s special recognition award for Collaboration at the ICW 25th Anniversary awards. Bluelightworks/Home Office was down selected as a finalist in the category Best Public Procurement Project for the CIPS Supply Management Awards 2016. Working on a broad front To date Bluelightworks has successfully undertaken projects for a range of customers 6
Major Projects Tangible Benefits Enabled Support to National Systems Information Fusion Ident1 ESN Fabric NFLMS ESMCP Air to Ground Benefits Identified and Enabled Financial Savings - 800m+ Per annum SME Participation 70+ SME in Partnership Generation, protection and sharing of Intellectual Property Better Understanding and Specification of business need Reduced Programme Delivery Risk More Effective use of Force resources Transfer of Skills and Know-how Sharing of project outputs with customers and Industry Projects with National Impact CLEP Local ICT Collaboration Police Innovation Fund Body Worn Video Forensics Scoping Study Digital First DII Digital Public Contact Efficient & Effective Offender Management Support to Forces Projects Staffordshire - MASH Cumbria PMO and EA BTP Next Generation Network South West Forces Local ICT WWMP OCC, Telephony and EA SYP/Humberside Contact Management South West Digital Evidence Management Support to Fire and Rescue Service East and West Sussex Fire Control Room R&D Hub Development Fire Inspection Options
Major Projects Financial Benefits Enabled Collaborative Law Enforcement Programme (CLEP) APCC project Forces Local ICT Collaboration Procurement of non-ict Goods and services Collaboration Aggregation Standardisation Evidence Based Outputs 115+ Partnership Large industry Service providers SME Academia Trade Associations Procurement and delivery of local ICT systems and capabilities Through a strategic and collaborative approach to ICT Procurement, organisational and business process savings Savings up to 300 million Per annum Savings up to 550 million Per annum
The Current Challenge - 1 of 2 Recent austerity challenge Policing in a connected digital world Better outcomes through multi-agency working With FRS With Social & Health care With elements of the Criminal Justice chain Continuing and evolving terrorist and Organised Crime Group threats Organisation structures that are no longer an entirely good match to the task Rate of technology change Ability to exploit in own organisation Criminal exploitation
The Current Challenge - 2 of 2 Major investments whose theoretical benefits need to be captured ESMCP NLEDS HOB Addressing these challenges will require further practical challenges to be addressed Effectively managing widespread significant change Balancing and mixing local regional and national approaches Delivery complex technical enables with an agile model
Addressing the Challenges Through Collaboration Collaboration with Industry and its customers in other domains to tap into experience of analogous challenges and how to address them By collaborating across individual initiatives BLW can bring consistency, mutual awareness and reuse of best practice Maximum impact through Working with Senior sponsors Early involvement Proactive directed collaboration across the landscape Working together to provide evidence based decision support