2012 Bruce George

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The Sum of the Parts...

Most of us that there are parts of organisations that make a direct difference to the business performance and parts that are in support of making that difference. In his presentation, Bruce will demonstrate how Health Alliance have brought together a variety of different concepts to create a symbiosis of elements, represented as one team of people.

Health Alliance - the single largest IT shop in New Zealand - have recently combined Innovation & Research, Programme Office, Improvement Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Human Resources, Communications and Design into the same team. The best parts of project management methods (Agile, Waterfall, ITIL, JDI) are used in combination with Lean, Six sigma, Change Management , Balanced scorecard and Benefits realisation. Leadership and culture are influenced by principles that have been set and ambitious targets defined by the board culminating in the challenge to become 'cost neutral within 12 months'.

This is to be achieved by:

Supporting collaboration, consistency, positivity, appreciation of successes and engagement of your organisation
Providing governance, direction and expertise in the selection, development and enabling of key projects
Consistency and rigorously supporting and enlightening our organisations towards best practice
Providing a systematic, rigorous, consistent set of methods or measuring and reporting on benefits
Leading by example, following up on our decisions and supporting our people and those around us.

Health Alliance have already achieved a number of successes and yet the oragnisation is only in ths 'forming' phase. These is much more to do and the journey is very exciting. Bruce will paint the picture of how they will tackle the opportunity to combine the parts to deliver more than would otherwise be expected.

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Bruce George, Project Manager, Health Alliance

My career started in sales, moved into IT, then Project Management. I spent some years as a management consultant providing process re-engineering and ERP systems capabilities in the UK. I progressed to auditing for IT and Finance processes and traveled the world before adopting lean thinking and six sigma as methodologies for continuous improvement.

I brought my family to NZ several years ago and after spending a few months in a Council role and then moved into banking. Now working in the health sector I have a broad range of industry experience and process and service improvement experience and successes. I have created what I consider to be my ideal role in an organisation and we are already starting to see many company benefits and additional added value for our customers.