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Articles by Tracie Langley

Finding hope in public sector collaboration

By Tracie Langley | 04 October 2024

As opportunities to make efficiencies become more scarce, joining up service offers across the pu...

Roll on the robots

By Tracie Langley | 03 July 2024

Improving productivity everywhere involves optimising resource use to deliver better outcomes for...

Time is money

By Tracie Langley | 21 May 2024

As construction costs remain high efforts to improve the speed of decison-making and staff proces...

Bridging the budget gap

By Tracie Langley | 10 April 2024

We haven’t even closed down the 2023-24 accounts yet and we are already starting to plan our 2025...

Going with the flow

By Tracie Langley | 17 January 2024

Tracie Langley looks at how a renewed focus on productivity and ‘flow’ methodologies can help mak...

Flying the flag for local government work

By Tracie Langley | 15 November 2023

Local government is an amazing place to work, says Tracie Langley. 'We do some brilliant things w...

Financial sustainability is never about clever financial mechanisms

By Tracie Langley | 03 October 2023

Instead of waiting until it’s too late, Cornwall Council has stood up the senior officer Financia...

Keeping the hares in their bushes

By Tracie Langley | 16 August 2023

Cornwall Council's biggest challenge will be to ensure the data used by the DLUHC to create the c...

A week in the life of a section 151 officer

By Tracie Langley | 04 July 2023

Tracie Langley has had a technically challenging and fulfilling week, 'but I am feeling the full ...

Welcome to the new world

By Tracie Langley | 30 May 2023

As councils navigate their way through increasing complexities in a changing world, Tracie Langle...