Decision details

The report presented the Joint Committee with the draft oneSource Strategic Plan for 2015-18 and the Delivery Plan for 2015-16.

By way of background, it was explained that oneSource was currently the largest public sector shared service in London and one of the largest in the country. It had been formed by the London Boroughs of Havering and Newham by bringing together 22 services and 1350 staff.

The Strategic Plan outlined oneSource’s strategic direction and how this would be delivered. The Plan provided an overview of our strategy for the next three years, considered the key business challenges for oneSource over this period and detailed the priorities and activities which would be taking place during 2015/16 in order to deliver the strategic objectives of oneSource.

The task of fully working together and implementing our target operating model had begun. To move forward six key strategic business objectives had been developed, which would be used to steer efforts over the next three years. These were:

1.    Delivering savings

2.    Focusing on our customers

3.    Embedding the oneSource culture

4.    Transforming our services

5.    Having the technology we need to deliver

6.    Growing our business – new partners and customers

The Interim Managing Director explained that a report would be presented at the next meeting of the Joint Committee concerning a delay in the go live for One Oracle in Newham which had been scheduled for April 2015. The delay would have an impact on a number of transformation reviews the detail of which would be included in that report.

A number of Members remarked that it would be beneficial for them to have an away day with senior staff to explore in more detail the strategic objectives, priorities and activities in the Strategic Plan and Delivery Plan.

The Joint Committee AGREED the strategic direction, six key strategic objectives, priorities and activities in the 2015-18 oneSource Strategic Plan and the 2015-16 Delivery Plan.