The resourcing challenges facing Government Commercial Functions

UK Government, and Public Sector as a whole, including local government, has a long track record of using external resource support to deliver front line, middle, and back office objectives. In fact, it could be argued that in times of high ‘churn’ in Government, the Big Four consultancies have better corporate memory than the civil servants who engaged them.

In this report, Proxima looks into the challenges facing Government Commercial Functions and how to overcome them. Including information on:

• When is a consultant not a consultant?
• What improvements can be made
• How competition is good for business and government
• The reality of strategic workforce planning