My apologies for the late blog - Monday instead of the usual Friday. I'm going to swap the days for the next couple of weeks as Fridays seem particularly intense at the moment! But then again so do Mondays...
CLT continue to work on the detail of the business plan which will be ready by September. This will include the detailed plans of how we will reshape the business to achieve the community and service objectives of our elected members whilst operating the business within the tighter financial constraints set by the coalition government. There are likely to be four key strands to this work; service redesign around lean principles, cost reduction from better procurement and commissioning, better use of our physical assets and optimisation of our staffing structures. CLT held two sessions on these areas last week and we have a further two planned today - including an evening session to make progress quickly. We'll develop the communication plans around this once we have met with Cabinet to seek their input and overarching approval to the approach. This is scheduled for next Monday - 26th when we have a full day with Cabinet members to discuss and develop these issues.
Thanks for reading and have a good week.
Carlton
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Carlton Brand, Corporate Director Wiltshire Council
Dr Carlton Brand
Carlton Brand, Corporate Director Wiltshire Council
About me
Dr Carlton Brand has worked in local government since 2004 and joined Wiltshire County Council in 2007.
During Carlton’s time as Corporate Director at Wiltshire County Council he co-led the transition to the new unitary Wiltshire Council. As part of the ongoing transformation process he led on the implementation of an ambitious new business management programme utilising SAP to underpin the new organisation; the introduction of systems thinking (lean) to transform service performance for customers; and procurement reform amongst his many other corporate responsibilities. In the last couple of years he has developed a new organisation model for the council which is based on hubs and campuses, working with partners such as the Police around the community areas.
Carlton is passionate about developing future leaders and has led the development of a coaching and mentoring programme across the council in order to develop leaders and enable managers to share their skills and experience. Himself a fully accredited executive coach and leadership mentor, Carlton is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Carlton enjoys engaging and sharing ideas with partner organisations and other councils through his activities with South West Councils, SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) ACCE (Association of Council Chief Executives) and CCN (County Councils Network) among others.
Prior to joining Wiltshire, Carlton was Corporate Director for Resources at St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk where he led on performance improvement through systems thinking and the efficiency/cost reduction agenda in response to the Gershon review, amongst others.
For the first twenty years of his career, Carlton worked for Ford Motor Company; first as a design engineer in product development and latterly as a senior manager leading large teams of engineers on the concept, design, development and launch into manufacturing of major new model programmes such as the Ford Focus. Carlton has worked widely across Europe, the USA and Japan in many Ford and supplier engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Married with two sons he enjoys all forms of motor sport, cricket, fishing and astronomy.
During Carlton’s time as Corporate Director at Wiltshire County Council he co-led the transition to the new unitary Wiltshire Council. As part of the ongoing transformation process he led on the implementation of an ambitious new business management programme utilising SAP to underpin the new organisation; the introduction of systems thinking (lean) to transform service performance for customers; and procurement reform amongst his many other corporate responsibilities. In the last couple of years he has developed a new organisation model for the council which is based on hubs and campuses, working with partners such as the Police around the community areas.
Carlton is passionate about developing future leaders and has led the development of a coaching and mentoring programme across the council in order to develop leaders and enable managers to share their skills and experience. Himself a fully accredited executive coach and leadership mentor, Carlton is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Carlton enjoys engaging and sharing ideas with partner organisations and other councils through his activities with South West Councils, SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) ACCE (Association of Council Chief Executives) and CCN (County Councils Network) among others.
Prior to joining Wiltshire, Carlton was Corporate Director for Resources at St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk where he led on performance improvement through systems thinking and the efficiency/cost reduction agenda in response to the Gershon review, amongst others.
For the first twenty years of his career, Carlton worked for Ford Motor Company; first as a design engineer in product development and latterly as a senior manager leading large teams of engineers on the concept, design, development and launch into manufacturing of major new model programmes such as the Ford Focus. Carlton has worked widely across Europe, the USA and Japan in many Ford and supplier engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Married with two sons he enjoys all forms of motor sport, cricket, fishing and astronomy.
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