2021

COM0023 - Advertising on council uniforms - 200921

This local authority would like to hear from any others who have introduced advertising on staff uniforms.

COM0022 - Digital advertising - 160821

A member authority would like to hear from other authorities around any work you have done around digital advertising.

• Have any local authorities experience of installing digital advertising screens, either in partnership, as a concession or managed by yourselves?
• What benefits have digital advertising screens brought to the council and local area, e.g. income, benefits to local businesses, etc.?
• Have local authorities met any objections, barriers or obstacles to digital advertising screens?
• Would respondents be happy provide contact details for further discussion.

COM0022 - Commercial Strategy information - 220621

A member authority has a strategy for their traded environment services and we are currently reviewing this post Covid.

They are keen to promote a ‘golden thread’ throughout their local authority so that commercialisation features prominently within all services plans/strategy documents. They would be keen to hear from any other local authorities who would be willing to share their commercial strategy documents.

COM0022 - Providing back office functions to other authorities - 070521

A member authority is seeking to understand if any other authorities are providing or have provided back-office support functions to other authorities on a traded, delegated function or shared service basis and if so, are they single service areas or multiples packaged as a suite?

Examples may include some or any of the following:

• Asset/Building Management
• Fleet
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Legal
• Leisure Centre Membership services
• Payroll
• Procurement etc.

COM0021 – Software / CRM systems in Commercial Activity – 150421

This APSE member is exploring investment in software to assist in the management of commercial activity. Key components would be:-

• Anniversary date triggers/reminders for tenders or re-tenders
• Plug-in systems to council financial software ( such as Oracle )
• Data reports – such as spend per client
• Client intelligence system – such as last contact/links to SLAs or contracts with clients
• They would therefore be grateful to receive the following information.
• Have you purchased any such system? If so from which company? How successful has the system been in assisting you manage and develop commercial activity?
• Have you created or adapted internal council software systems to accommodate the functions of a commercial CRM system? How successful has this approach been?
• Do you have any cost information around system purchase, development or implementation?