Challenge Faced with a £20 million funding shortfall in the financial year 2014/15 and £40 million over three years, Powys County Council needed to find ways to make substantial savings. The Council’s Resources Directorate had already planned a series of cost-saving changes but had little capacity for any additional cuts without undertaking a fundamental root and branch review. Solution David Powell, Strategic Director of Resources at Powys, contacted Hoople Ltd for support to introduce Lean Systems Thinking Methodologies within his directorate. Lean encourages staff at all levels to approach and see work as a system rather than as a number of individual activities. Lean Systems Thinking encompasses work processes, technology, work design, regulations, policy and procedures

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