Maintaining ambition Sample Clauses

Maintaining ambition. In modelling the enhanced scope option during the development of the OBC, a view was taken on where the line should be drawn between activity retained within Councils and activity transferred to the Shared Service operation. A degree of ambition was built into this, but it was recognised that beyond the non-negotiable transactional elements of service, the depth of transfer of value added services in some functional areas required further refinement. In response to this, a further series of workshops and meetings were undertaken during the DBC phase to develop a more definitive and transparent definition of scope as follows: • the definition of each service in terms of its role, functions and responsibilities; • the definition of roles, functions and responsibilities that should be retained by each Council as a client function and would never be transfer to the Shared Service organisation; • the definition of roles, functions and responsibilities that could be transferred to the Shared Service organisation, differentiating between: o activity that can be considered core (i.e., the elements of the scope that partner Councils will transfer to the Shared Service as a minimum); and o activity that can be considered optional (i.e., the elements of scope that partner Council may wish to transfer to the Shared Service). Allied to the definition of the total, retained and shared (core and optional) scope, all the services have been re-baselined in terms of current expenditure, staff (measured in FTEs) and 3rd party expenditure.