How Verto helps you plan and deliver the perfect project

What does the perfect project look like? We think it has clearly expressed outcomes that you can easily monitor, measure, evidence and report on. It involves all the people who have an interest in it and can help it succeed. It comes in on time and within budget. And it makes a positive difference.

 

That’s easy to write. But harder to do. Especially for a large organization that’s delivering multiple projects under different programmes, often as part of a multi-agency partnership.

 

With Verto, you’ll find the perfect project is much easier to achieve

 

Verto brings every aspect of a project into one place, from the very start when you’re forming ideas and writing your business case, right through to your final evaluation and project report.

 

This gives you the transparency you need to be able to manage the project effectively and work in partnership with all the organizations you need to involve.

 

Verto gives you a shared dashboard and database and helps you standardize processes. This saves you time and makes it easier for you to accurately interpret your data and produce accurate, real-time reports.

 

Verto also automatically links your project’s outputs to its outcomes. This means you can:

 

  • See how you’re meeting your key performance indicators
  • Easily monitor and measure the outcomes your project is delivering as it progresses
  • Measure and manage cost, both for both a single project and across whole programmes
  • Accurately report on and evaluate what your project has achieved when it ends
  • Measure your performance against national indicators and that of other organizations

 

All this will help you accurately and effectively target improvement, manage spend and identify savings.

 

Your Verto

 

So Verto will help you improve your performance and deliver efficiency savings using an evidenced based approach that is easy to report on.

 

What makes it so popular with our clients is how we they can customize Verto to meet the exact needs of their organization and reflect their existing terminology and practice.

 

This has helped different partners work together using the same processes, language and templates. It has given them transparency and so helped them develop trust and strong working relationships. It has helped them share good practice. And it has helped them easily produce accurate reports, both for use internally and as part of their statutory requirements.

 

 

To find out more about how Verto can make your project management easier please call us on 0118 334 6200 or message us here.

 

And for more information on how we’re helping different multi-agency partnerships deliver complex programmes and improve outcomes for the communities they serve, please see the case studies we post on our blog, such as this one for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Sustainability and Transformation Plan.

 

 

 

 


Why it’s Worth Investing in Collaborative Working

No one ever said collaborative working is easy. To make it a success definitely takes effort. But making that effort is worthwhile because the benefits of collaborative working can be significant, for both your service users and the organisations taking part.

 

In future posts we’ll look at some of the barriers to collaborative working, what can go wrong, and how you can make it easier.

 

But for now, perhaps because we’re still in a positive New Year frame of mind, we’re going to focus on the benefits of collaborative working.

 

What is collaborative working?

 

Before we start, it’s worth being clear what we mean when we say collaborative working.

 

There are many definitions posted on the web and published in guidance documents, some of which will suit your organisation and specific collaboration better than others.

 

From our experience supporting people and organisations involved in collaborative working, we’re happy with:

 

Collaborative working is two or more departments or organisations working together. This may be to contribute to a particular activity, function or project, or to contribute to a new organisation. The arrangement may be for a fixed time or it may be permanent.

 

Why do we work in collaboration?

 

It’s also worth looking at what’s driving us to work in collaboration.

 

The impetus may come from public opinion, government policy and the ongoing public sector drive for improved efficiency and effectiveness – most likely it’s a combination of all three.

 

However, what initially led to the collaboration is less important that what the outcomes may be. Because when collaborative working goes well, these can be extremely positive.

 

 

  1. Collaborative working helps you save money

 

Organisations working together are usually much more cost-effective than, what we now call, silo-based working. From joint procurement to cutting duplication, there are many ways that collaborative working can lead to savings. As evidence of this, our clients are currently using Verto to help them track £13.2 billion of planned savings.

 

  1. Collaborative working helps you be more effective

 

At the heart of collaborative working is improving outcomes for service users. When we focus more on why we’re providing a particular service and work together to find solutions, both of which collaborative working makes us do, we’re more likely to make a positive difference.

 

  1. Collaborative working helps you learn, share and repeat success

 

Closely linked to the point above, working with others and learning from their knowledge and experience, helps us understand more about what we really need to provide and how best to do this. Over time, services can become more resilient and expertise in teams can grow.

 

  1. Collaborative working helps you build a strong and united voice

 

When we share our knowledge and experience, we may also uncover shared problems and concerns. If we then need to lobby for change, one clear message sent by many will have much greater impact.

 

 

We designed Verto to help make collaborative working easier and more successful for you. In future blogs we’ll look in more detail at how Verto’s specific tools do this. Because whether you want to make communication, reporting, risk analysis, task management, resource management, performance planning or document storage and sharing easier, we can help.

 

For more information please call us on 0844 870 8785 or message us here.


North East Hampshire & Farnham CCG to use Verto

North East Hampshire & Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group is taking on the Verto service. Verto will support the PMO with programme management and QIPP reporting as well as collaboration with CCGs and STP programme partners.


Dudley MBC extends Verto use

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council extends it's use of Verto following a successful launch earlier this year. Verto will be used extensively to help monitor and deliver the Council's innovative transformation programme


NHS CLCH uses Verto

The Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust has taken on the Verto service to manage a range of programmes within the organisation and provide comprehensive management reports to key stakeholders.


NHS South Central & West CSU extends Verto use

NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit has extended its use of the Verto service across the organisation. Verto was previously used within the South West CSU but will now be rolled out across the entire organisation.


Dudley MBC uses Verto

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has taken on the Verto service to support work collaboration and project management over a wide range of transformation programmes across the organisation.


Verto available now on G-Cloud 8

What is G-Cloud?

The UK Government G-Cloud is an initiative targeted at easing procurement of commodity information technology services, that use cloud computing, by public sector bodies in departments of the United Kingdom Government.

G-Cloud allows public sector organisations to call off services without needing to run a full tender or competition procurement process, thanks to a series of framework agreements with suppliers.

Public sector bodies are able to search for services that are covered by the G-Cloud frameworks by visiting an online store - the "Digital Marketplace".

Verto is a UK Government G-Cloud Supplier

Verto has again successfully completed the G-Cloud tender process and is now available through the recently published G-Cloud 8 framework.

Verto is available under Lot 3, Software as a Service with a further listing under Lot 4 available for Specialist Cloud Services.

Find Verto in the Digital Marketplace here: Verto G8


Cheshire East Council uses Verto

Cheshire East Council has extended their use of the Verto service following a year long trial.


Wolverhampton City Council extends Verto use

Wolverhampton City Council has extended it's use of the Verto service with a following a successful launch and roll-out during the previous year.