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POW-003.2 DigitalNL - Year 4 Roadmap

North Lanarkshire Council · 29 September 2022
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North Lanarkshire Council
Report
Policy and Strategy Committee 
Does this report require to be approved? ☐ Yes   ☒ No
Ref KH/LJ Date 29/09/22 
PoW: 003.2 DigitalNL – Year 4 Roadmap 
From  Head of Business and Digital  
E-mail hassellk@northlan.gov.uk Telephone 07903 096 121 
Executive Summary 
In line with the good governance principles contained within the Council’s Corporate
Programme and Project Management Framework, the outcome of the reviews of the
DigitalNL programme were approved by Policy and Strategy Committee in October 2020
and June 2021.  Updates in respect of the programme were also considered each committee
cycle by the former Transformation and Digitisation Committee. 
At its meeting on 23 February 2022, the Transformation and Digitisation Committee
considered the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on the year 3 programme and the cessation of
the System Integrator contract in April 2022 and the reduced development pool available
within Business and Digital to address the residual Year 3 and indicative Year 4 programme. 
Members approved a full review of the Year 4 programme. 
Subsequently, this report provides oversight of the review process and the planned Year 4
roadmap which includes the anticipated benefits realisation programme.  The financial and
resourcing position is also contained therein. 
Recommendations 
It is recommended that the Policy and Strategy Committee: - 
1) Note the Year 3 position
2) Consider the Year 4 planned programme and associated benefits realisation
3) Note the marginal overall variation in programme investment costs which can be
contained within Business and Digital’s overall capital allocation. 
The Plan for North Lanarkshire
Priority  All priorities
Ambition statement All ambition statements

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1. Background 
1.1 Through the Future Organisational Ambitions report (December 2017), the former
Policy and Resources Committee noted a range of specialist resources would be
required over a five-year period to deliver the significant and ambitious DigitalNL
transformation programme.  Approval was granted to recruit resources when demand
for roles could be evidenced, with such being funded on a one-off basis from the
established Digitisation reserve. 
1.2 At its meeting of 21 March 2019, the Policy and Strategy Committee approved the
indicative five-year investment for the digital transformation programme and an
illustrative programme of work for 2019/20 (the first year of the programme).  In October
2019 the council’s System Integration Partner, Agilisys Limited, commenced a two-year
contract, with an up to six months extension opportunity available, for the Council to
maximise development over the remaining months of the contract. 
1.3 In line with the overall governance for the DigitalNL programme, oversight reports
containing the financial, resourcing and tracking position of the sprint roadmap were
the responsibility of the former Transformation and Digitisation Committee.  The Year
2 (2020/21) and Year 3 (2021/22) roadmaps were approved in May 2020 and 2021
respectively. 
1.4 In June 2021 the “PoW003.2 – Financial Overview and Resourcing” report was
approved at Policy and Strategy Committee.  This report provided comprehensive
details of the following: - 
• The planning of future years for Capital and Revenue expenditure
• Year 3 revised roadmap
• Indicative proposals for Year 4
• Envisaged financial benefits and targeted savings
• Progress in achieving targeted savings
• Overview of the updated DigitalNL investment model 
1.5 Thereafter, the Transformation and Digitisation Committee received oversight reports
during each Committee cycle up to and including February 2022. 
1.6 The February 2022 report highlighted the implications of the Covid-19 Omicron variant
on Business and Digital as a service and importantly the challenges faced on the
scheduled redesign activity through to the end of the contract with Agilisys Limited in
April 2022. 
2. Report 
2.1 In February 2022, Members were advised that every effort was being made to maximise
development with Agilisys Limited over the remaining months of the contract.  However,
delays and challenges continued to be experienced across all council services following
the Covid-19 pandemic which led to sprints and technology development planned for
completion in Year 3 being continued into Year 4 of the DigitalNL programme. 
2.2 Whilst there was an ongoing and intensive programme of knowledge transfer and
training and development available to transition specialist skills from Agilisys Limited to
staff within Business and Digital, it was acknowledged there would be significantly less
resource available going into 2022/23.  This particularly impacts on transitioning
business change and redesign service sprint outcomes into the ‘build’ phase and
subsequent deployment of redesigned activities within live production.  There is a high

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risk of further delays being experienced within the overall programme timelines both
current and in the future. 
2.3 Throughout the duration of the Systems Integrator contract, approximately 53 staff from
Agilisys Limited were engaged in the development and build of the various technical
components that make up the overall Council digital architecture, including the
Customer Portal, Field Services, and Dynamics Platform. 
2.4 With that contract now ceased, the Council has 16 technical staff available within
Business and Digital to develop workstreams, support the backlog for development and
enhancements and maintain significant numbers of existing in-house legacy business
applications. 
2.5 With the Corporate ICT Operational Risk (referenced in paragraph 5.9) also recognising
very lean level of ICT resources give rise to capacity issues, a full root and branch
review took place during Summer 2022 with Figure 1 outlining the steps undertaken in
order to present a realistic programme underpinned by an understanding of the
capacity, knowledge, skills and abilities of available resources as well as current and
future development requirements not just within the DigitalNL programme but rather
the council as a whole. 
Year 4 – Review Process 
2.6 The year three review concluded that the following service sprints were still incomplete,
and priority would be given to completing them before any new sprints commenced: 
• Business Waste and Special Uplift
• Fleet Services
• Environmental Assets
• Housing – Field Services (Dynamic Scheduling)
• Education and Families
• Housing – Digital Transactions
• Back-office Processes – Elected members enquiry system; Purchase to Pay (P2P)
• Legal
• Financial Inclusion
• Facility Support Services
• Financial Management System (FMS) - Education & Families

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2.7 Considerable effort was made in the last few months of Agilisys’s contract to ensure
they completed all the development work they had started.  Unfortunately, due to
several issues including incomplete service user acceptance testing (UAT) and
integrations to legacy systems, Agilisys were unable to sufficiently deliver all activities
into live production. This regrettably resulted in our own development staff having to
add these work items to the overall work programme, causing further delays and
capacity issues. 
Year 4 (2022/23) Roadmap 
2.8 As part of the root and branch review, a ‘shape and size’ exercise was completed to
determine how many of the outstanding Year 3 Sprints could be delivered, based on
the reduced resource pool.  The shape and size exercise firstly reviewed all the user
stories and requirements captured as part of the service sprints; the development team
scored the various technical components based on complexity which allowed them to
estimate the total number of development days.  The development days were matched
against the available resource pool, taking account of skills, capability, and capacity of
developers.  Given issues experienced throughout the DigitalNL programme in respect
of UAT, a multiplier was then used to allow for services to complete UAT, and for
Business and Digital to then address any system bugs or functionality issues identified
by the service areas. 
2.9 Based on the sizing exercise described above it is proposed that the following Sprints
will now be concluded in Year 4: 
• Housing – Field Services
• Environmental Assets – Report it on-line forms
• Waste – Special Uplift
• Fleet- MOT and Taxi Compliance
• Financial Inclusion – Debt Advice Management
• Education & Families – FMS system MVP (minimal viable product)
• Financial Solutions – RPA (robotic process automation) 
2.10 The development of the remainder of the Environmental Asset processes will
commence in Year 4 but due to the large number of processes these will not conclude
until August 2023. 
2.11 It is important to stress that the start and end dates of Sprint developments shown in
Appendix 1 are estimates which reflect the new technologies and working methods for
the development team.  Progress will be monitored monthly, and the development
dates and resources adjusted as required.  Some sprints may be delivered earlier than
planned but it is much too early in the process to be able to say that with any certainty
at this stage.  Due to the minimal development effort required the following Sprints
could also be concluded in Year 4: 
• Housing – Anti Social Behaviour
• Back Office Processes – Elected member enquiry system; Complaints;
Information Asset Register
• Housing – Rents On-line 
2.12 The go live dates are also reliant on service areas releasing staff to assist with the User
Acceptance Testing and other sprint activities.  This has been a challenge throughout
the Programme, with service resources often not available to complete these vital tasks
when the programme requires.  This has resulted in significant slippage of several

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sprints, and consequently to benefits realisation as delays to targeted completion dates
adversely impact on the associated savings values.   
2.13 Whilst strict oversight arrangements are in place through a corporate Delivery Board to
minimise delays and maximise in-year savings, such cannot fully address the longer-
term challenges and risks that have arisen within the programme.   
2.14 The Business Change team will continue with their sprint activity, working alongside 
the service area to capture requirements and produce user stories.  The following 
sprints fall into this category: 
• Estate Management
• Facility Support Services 
• Housing – Repairs online
• Education and Families
• Purchase to Pay (P2P) 
2.15 Work will also continue to define the requirements for a case management system for
People and Organisational Development (POD), Enterprise and Economic
Development and Legal Services. 
2.16 Members were previously advised in June 2021 that the programme expected to
conclude all remaining redesign sprints within year 4 and to then revisit the “design
backlogs” from those service areas “transformed” within the very initial phases of the
service redesign.  Given the pandemic continued to impact on the planned delivery of
the digitisation programme, Active and Creative Communities were out-with the original
scope of development, and we now have a significantly reduced development pool
available, it is clear the digitisation programme will continue into 2023/24 and beyond. 
2.17 Members approved “The Plan for North Lanarkshire – Programme of Work for 2022/23”
report at the Policy and Strategy Committee in March 2022.  Within that report,
PoW:095 Development of Centres of Excellence was aligned to the vision set out in the
Digital and IT Strategy whereby it was anticipated that such would ensure that as the
scale of digital transformation increased, defining, and implementing long-term Centres
of Excellence to drive innovation and improvement would provide a more consistent
experience for our communities and development opportunities for our staff.
2.18 The Council’s first Centre of Excellence was identified for Robotic Process Automation
(RPA).  However, due to the challenges highlighted in 2.2 of this report, the resources
and skills required to set up such an intensive process are not currently available and
as such the development cannot be progressed further at this time.  This will be
revisited at a future point.
DigitalNL - Benefits Realisation 
2.19 The high-level savings reported to Committee in February 2022 considered the values
projected and delivered from digitisation activity alongside the savings adjustment
approved by Council in respect of Adult Health and Social Care (£6.000m).  This
resulted in the outstanding value required from the DigitalNL Programme for financial
year 2022/23 to be circa. £3.2m.   
2.20 Based upon the priorities identified within section 2.9 above, the Business Change
team within Business and Digital continue to engage with services to determine
financial and non-financial benefits expected from completing this digitisation activity.

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Budgets in respect of approved savings now rest with individual services to deliver, with
opportunities for achieving benefits against budgeted targets illustrated within Appendix
Three. 
2.21 To date the programme has delivered circa £1.1m of gross financial benefits as follows: 
2.22  Non-financial benefits are captured during the benefits management six stage
approach, and these are categorised within one or more of the three strategic strands. 
A summary of all three is included in Appendix 4. 
Financial Impact – Capital and Revenue Update 
2.23 Committee was advised of the Year 3 position as at Period 10 with projected spend of
£4.716m and £2.143m for capital and revenue investment respectively. 
2.24 The final out-turn position for 2021/22 showed spend of £4.742m for capital and
£1.969m for revenue investment. 
2.25 Recurring revenue costs were closely monitored during 2021/22 due to the uncertainty
of cloud consumption costs and licence requirements.  At period 10 recurring revenue
costs were projected at £1.484m with a final outturn for the year being £1.072m, mainly
due to changes in licence arrangements. 
2.26 Year 4 – Capital and Revenue Projections 
2.26.1 In line with the Year 4 Roadmap detailed in paragraph 2.9 above indicative spend of
£1.344m and £1.101m is envisaged for capital and revenue investment respectively. 
Project Workstream Actual
Savings
Phase M8.5 Built Environment Built Environment £62,500
Phase M8.2 Waste PH1 Waste Solutions £578,078
Phase M8.3 POD - ESC £249,000
Phase M4.2 RPA Phase 2 RPA - Revs/Bens £116,322
Phase Business Solutions Business Solutions £118,000
Overall achieved Savings: £1,123,900
COMPLETE
Service Sprints

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2.26.2 Increased efforts through Agilisys referenced in paragraph 2.7 above have resulted in
capital presently projecting to overspend by circa. £0.083m, but such will be managed
within Business and Digital’s overall capital allocation through the Strategic Capital
Delivery Group.    
2.26.3  Recurring revenue costs were examined as part of the Year 4 review and are currently
estimated at £2.104m with indicative projections for 2023/24 being £2.362m.  It should
be noted that there is still a degree of uncertainty over cloud consumption estimates
given the unknown impact of the recent mass migration from on premise shared drives
to SharePoint online.  These costs will continue to be stringently monitored and
variances reported.   
3. Measures of success 
3.1  Success will be evidenced through technology being efficiently and effectively
deployed, in an agile manner, to support the implementation of new digital service
delivery models and solutions.  Service delivery models and solutions are designed to
meet the needs of modern businesses and communities. 
3.2 Specific measures of success will be identified and evidenced as The Plan for North
Lanarkshire and all programmes of work (including DigitalNL) progress. 
4. Supporting documentation 
4.1 Appendix One - Year 4 (2022/23) Sprint Development / Build Roadmap
Appendix Two - Capital and Revenue Summary as at Period 4
Appendix Three - DigitalNL – Financial benefits analysis 
Appendix Four - Non-Financial Benefits 
Katrina Hassell
Head of Business and Digital

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5. Impacts ( http://connect/report-template-guidance ) 
5.1 Public Sector Equality Duty and Fairer Scotland Duty
Does the report contain information that has an impact as a result of the Public
Sector Equality Duty and/or Fairer Scotland Duty?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 
If Yes, has an assessment been carried out and published on the council’s website?
https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/your-community/equalities/equality-and-fairer-
scotland-duty-impact-assessments 
Yes ☐ No ☐
5.2 Financial impact
Does the report contain any financial impacts?
Yes ☒ No ☐
If Yes, have all relevant financial impacts have been discussed and agreed with
Financial Solutions?
Yes ☒ No ☐
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact?
Known burdens, pressures, and delays incurred to date in achieving budgeted savings
are regularly discussed with Financial Solutions to minimise the impact such may have
on the Council’s overall revenue budget position. Budgets in respect of approved
savings rest with individual services to deliver, with opportunities for achieving benefits
against budgeted targets highlighted in Appendix Three below.  
Officers from the Business Change team within Business and Digital will continue to
engage with services’ nominated lead officers to support them in maximising the
financial benefits available from completing digital sprint activity
5.3 HR policy impact 
Does the report contain any HR policy or procedure impacts?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, have all relevant HR impacts have been discussed and agreed with People
and Organisational Development?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 
5.4 Legal impact
Does the report contain any legal impacts (such as general legal matters, statutory
considerations (including employment law considerations), or new legislation)?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, have all relevant legal impacts have been discussed and agreed with Legal
and Democratic Solutions?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 
5.5 Data protection impact 
Does the report / project / practice contain or involve the processing of personal
data?  
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, is the processing of this personal data likely to result in a high risk to the data
subject?
Yes ☐ No ☒

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If Yes, has a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) been carried out and e-
mailed to dataprotection@northlan.gov.uk 
Yes ☐ No ☐
5.6 Technology / Digital impact
Does the report contain information that has an impact on either technology, digital
transformation, service redesign / business change processes, data management, or
connectivity / broadband / Wi-Fi?
Yes ☒ No ☐
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact?
Business and Digital is responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance of all
ICT and digital assets required by the Council. It has approved revenue and capital
funding available to maintain supportable applications and transition Council services
towards increased self-service and community-focussed delivery. Significant changes
are envisaged regarding connectivity, IoT, software and hardware, but all will be
considered by the Council’s Enterprise Architecture Governance Group (EAGG) as
part of the overarching deployment process. 
Where the impact identifies a requirement for technology, has an assessment been
carried out (or scheduled) by the Enterprise Architecture Governance Group
(EAGG)? 
Yes ☒ No ☒
5.7 Environmental / Carbon impact
Does the report / project / practice contain information that has an impact on any
environmental or carbon matters?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 
5.8 Communications impact
Does the report contain any information that has an impact on the council’s
communications activities?
Yes ☐ No ☒
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 
5.9 Risk impact
Is there a risk impact?
Yes ☒ No ☐
If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the key risks and potential impacts,
highlighting where the risk(s) are assessed and recorded (e.g. Corporate or Service
or Project Risk Registers), and how they are managed?
The Council’s Corporate Risk Register 2022/23 was considered at the Corporate
Management Team in June 2022.  The following corporate risks require oversight
from Business and Digital and specifically the DigitalNL programme. 
Corporate Risks
(Operational) 
LikelihoodImpact  RatingEvaluation  Last Review
Date 
Next Review
Date 
Information Security and
Information Governance 
5  4          2
0 
High  15/07/2022  15/10/2022 
ICT Operational capability  4  4          1
6 
High  04/06/2022 04/09/2022 
Corporate Risks (Strategic)  LikelihoodImpact  RatingEvaluation

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Digital and IT Strategy  3  3           
9 
Medium  01/05/2022  01/08/2022 or
01/11/2022
(awaiting final
scoring from
review) 
Risks are reviewed on a scheduled basis at a Service and Programme level through
the governance arrangements approved at the DigitalNL Delivery Board.

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Appendix One
Year 4 (2022/23) Sprint Development / Build Roadmap

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Appendix Two 
DigitalNL – Capital and Revenue Summary as at Period 4 – 2022/23 
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Programme Totals 
2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Actuals Approvals 
£(m) £(m) £(m) £(m) £(m) £(m) £(m       
Capital 2.798 5.529 4.742 1.344 0 14.413 14.330
Revenue 3.217 2.132 1.969 1.101 1.081   9.500 9.500       
Total Investment Costs 6.015 7.661 6.711 2.445 1.081 23.913 23.830       
Total Recurring Costs 1.149 0.820 1.072 2.104 2.362

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Appendix Three 
Predicted
FYR Savings
Projected
Realisation
Date
Phase M8.5 Built Environment £62,500 Jul-22
1 Revenue Growth £62,500
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £0
Phase M8.4 Fleet Operations £50,000 Feb-23
1 Apply & pay for MOT or Compliance Test £50,000
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £0
Phase M8.6 Environmental Assets £600,000 Nov-23
1 Report an issue £76,961 Dec-22
2 Apply & pay permits £28,428 Nov-23
3 Residual Value (to be identified) £494,611 Nov-23
Phase S7.4 Housing Solutions £347,000 Jun-23
1 Keyfax £83,802 Jun-23
2 Digital Transactions - Rents Online £37,483 Jun-23
3 Digital Transactions - CHR Online
Application £79,920 Jun-23
4 Digital Transactions - CHR Change of Circs £156,390 Jun-23
5 Digital Transactions - Report Anti-Social
Behaviour £37,833 Jun-23
6 Digital Transactions - Estate Management
Forms £0 Jun-23
7 Residual Value (to be identified) -£48,428
Phase S7.5 Housing Prop & Proj £107,500 Dec-22
1 Field Services £107,500
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £0
Phase N9 Education & Families £800,000 TBA
1 Phonecalls £351,476
2 Printing, filing, letter dist £239,199
3 Late Pupils £58,579
4 Registration £124,969
5 Residual Value (to be identified) £25,777
Phase N16 Legal & Democratic Services £134,000 Nov-24
1 Civic Licence Applications £98,037 Nov-24
2 Legal Case Management System £37,015
3 Residual Value (to be identified) -£1,052
Phase N19 Enterprise £0 N/A
1 Discovery - identified no savings £0
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £0
Phase N18 Financial Inclusion £116,000 Mar-23
1 Debt Advice - Online form £40,000 Mar-23
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £76,000
Phase N8 Facility Support Services £750,000 Jun-23
1 Support Services £186,200
2 Booking System £120,000
3 Residual Value (to be identified) £443,800
Phase N17 Protective Services £150,000 Jul-23
1 Discovery £0
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £150,000
Phase Business & Digital £173,207 Jun-23
1 Discovery £0
2 Residual Value (to be identified) £173,207
Subtotal:
Overall predicted Savings: £3,290,207
Overall identified savings: £1,976,292
Residual to be identifed: £1,313,915
Breakdown of Benefits by Service Sprint & Process
CONTINUATION FROM YEAR 3 to YEAR 4
Service Sprints

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Appendix Four 
Ref No. Project / Work Package /
Service Sprint:
Description: Description of Benefit:
identify the benefit and provide a description
Primary Benefit Area?
Financial            Process
Customer           Employee
Environmental
Programme of Work?
Select all that apply
TPFNL
Links to Ambition Statement
- select all those that apply
DS01-0001 New Website & Customer Portal Customer experience Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5, 18, 19 and 20
DS01-0002 Driving Digital Locally Community Board reps serving on Driving
Digital Locally sub group
Inclusive growth in the community Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 6, 11, 18, 19 and 20
DS01-0003 Customer Services Hub Demand reduction
Improved accesibility
Self serve option
Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
P003.2 Business change and
service redesign
18, 19 and 24
DS01-0004 Immersive Classroom 5G enabled 360° projection over 4 walls that
brings the real-world into a room
Digital inclusivity with potential to virtually
bring people to the classroom
Customer
Employee
P088 Digital Infrastructure
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
4, 6 and 24
DS01-0005 Digital Skills & Inclusion Group Develop and deliver digitally confident
communities
Multi-skilled workforce across North
Lanarkshire
Digital inclusion and collaboration with
communities and 3rd Sector
Customer P072.2 Strategic data
management & information
governance
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
25
DS01-0006 Employability & Careers videos 4 introductory videos aimed at senior phase
in education to outline career paths and
transition into the workplace
Young people Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5, 6 and 25
DS01-0007 Getting Work Ready Interactive playbooks for young people
entering the world of work
Direct learning for young people in career
opportunities, personal insights and practical
advice on interviewing, CVs and starting work
Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5, 6 and 25
DS01-0008 New College Lanarkshire
placements
5 x 10 week placements for HND students Practical experience for students
Increasing skills in the future workforce
community benefit legacy from Agilisys
Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5, 6 and 25
DS01-0009 Digital Connectivity Framework
Agreement
Delivery of a world class digital infrastructure Inclusive digital infrastructure for our citizens Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
Environmental
P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5 and 18
Digital Communities - Achievements / Benefits
Customers are supported to be independent in their own communities - Products and services are matched with their needs

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Ref No. Project / Work Package /
Service Sprint:
Description: Description of Benefit:
identify the benefit and provide a description
Primary Benefit Area?
Financial            Process
Customer           Employee
Environmental
Programme of Work?
Select all that apply
TPFNL
Links to Ambition Statement
- select all those that apply
DS02-0001 Business Gateway Customer P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
5, 6, 19 and 25
DS02-0002 Expert Help Framework
supplied via Business Gateway
11 Lots providing 1 to 3 days free expert help
support (example below)
Low Carbon Lot
Marketing and Digital Marketing Lot
Digital Development Lot
Customer
Environmental
P088 Digital Infrastructure
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
4, 5 and 6
DS02-0003 Smart Hub Lanarkshire New centre of excellence for manufacturing
innovation and robotics
digitisation and automation
improve efficiency
boost productivity
grow business
Customer P088 Digital Infrastructure 4, 5 and 6
DS02-0004 Digital Boost Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5 and 6
DS02-0005 Digital Skills & Connectivity
Survey
Digital Skills and Inclusion Group carried out
the survey focussing on the development of
digital skills for business
Insights from business respondents.  Results
from the survey inform our employability,
skills and education curriculum offerings
Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5, 6, 18, 19 and 20
DS02-0006 NLC Business Grant Support 2 business grant funds setup
Back to Business - enables adaptation of
premises/operating model to address new
challenges in the trading environment
Recovery & Growth - competitive,
discretionary grant fund - targeted at
new/existing businesses NL to support
strategic, longer term sustainability and
growth
Both support actions towards net zero:
- supporting the adoption and integration of
digital technologies and e-commerce
- encouraging the adoption and integration
of green technologies and low carbon
products, processes or services
- supporting the transition to a zero-carbon
economic model and facilitating sustainable
change and growth
Customer
Environmental
P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
5, 6, 19 and 25
DS02-0007 Avado - Data literacy modules Data analytics training Customer P093 Digital skills and inclusion 5 and 6
DS02-0008 Voucher Schemes (connectivity) Customer P088 Digital Infrastructure 4, 5 and 6
DS02-0009 Digital Connectivity Framework
Agreement
Delivery of a world class digital infrastructure -
support the council to develop a world-class
digital infrastructure for its residents and
businesses
Inclusive digital infrastructure for our citizens -
access to gigabit capable broadband services
will benefit local businesses
Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
Environmental
P088 Digital Infrastructure
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
4, 5, 6 and 24
DS02-0010 Supplier Development
Programme (SDP)
NLC is an active member of SDP - delivery of
PCS/PCS-Tender workshops to support the
Early Years and Childcare 1140 hours contract
and the ASN School Transport Tender
Dynamic Purchasing System is an example of
the programme
Process
Customer
P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
5, 6, 19 and 25
Digital Economy - Achievements / Benefits
New and disruptive technology - Supporting local business - Collaboratoin with customers

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Ref No. Project / Work Package /
Service Sprint:
Description: Description of Benefit:
identify the benefit and provide a description
Primary Benefit Area?
Financial            Process
Customer           Employee
Environmental
Programme of Work?
Select all that apply
TPFNL
Links to Ambition Statement
- select all those that apply
DS03-0001 S3-Digital Workplace Deployment of the latest industry leading
workforce productivity tools i.e. Microsoft
M365
Enable an agile, flexible and mobile
workforce by delivery of modern technology
Enable improved collaboration both
internally and with external partners and
organisations
Process
Employee
P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
P077.1 Workforce for the Future
P088 Digital Infrastructure
18, 23 and 25
DS03-0002 Business Intelligence Hub live and moving into phase 3 Better insight and management of data Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
Environmental
P003.2 Business change and service
redesign
P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
18, 19, 24 and 25
DS03-0003 Helping Hands live and now moved to NLC Tenant Multi-agency working Process
Customer
P072.2 Strategic data management &
information governance
25
DS03-0004 Completion of 3 Service Sprints delivering efficiency savings Removal of time consuming low value
activities
Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
Environmental
P003.2 Business change and service
redesign
18, 19 and 24
DS03-0005 Digital Connectivity Framework
Agreement
Delivery of a world class digital infrastructure Inclusive digital infrastructure for our citizens Financial
Process
Customer
Employee
Environmental
P088 Digital Infrastructure
P093 Digital skills and inclusion
4, 5, 6 and 24
Digital Council - Achievements / Benefits
Delivering services efficiently - Empowering customers to self manage - Mobile workforce, digitally trained
Collaborative working internal and external - Data driven decision making - Value added insights into customers and communities