Projects and case studies

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  • Achieving World Class HR

    In a bold initiative, 63 NHS organisations in the North West collaborated in a project 'Towards World Class HR'. Following early involvement, IES was asked to provide further research and consultancy support. It is important that these...

  • Council Succession and Talent Management Strategy

    IES worked with Birmingham City Council on implementation of its succession and talent management strategy. Birmingham is the largest city council in Europe and has already shown itself to be innovative in deploying the skills of its staff during...

  • Impact Assessment for Local Government

    Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) asked IES to support them in building impact assessment capacity in the public sector by developing capability among staff in PCTs and Local Authorities. IES provided a combination of specialist training...

  • The Future of Learning and Development in the Workplace

    IES worked with Training Journal and a consortium of sponsors to explore the future of Learning and Development in the workplace. In this second phase of the project, the particular focus was on the skill set that would be required of L&D...

  • Review of Executive Remuneration

    IES undertook a review of Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) executive remuneration arrangements. The review involved both external market comparisons and analysis of internal relativities. The review supported the existing principles underpinning GMG’s...

  • Fairness at Work Seminars

    IES is collaborating with the Universities of Manchester and Brighton to hold a series of seminars on fairness at work funded by the ESRC. IES will host one of six seminars scheduled to run in 2010-11 covering themes including pay, diversity,...

  • Developing a Talent Management Strategy with the National Offender Management Service

    Wendy Hirsh supported the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as it developed its strategy for talent management. NOMS covers both prisons and probation services which have different traditions in how they grow future leaders and diverse...

  • Leadership Programme Evaluation

    IES was asked to evaluate Innovations in Healthcare, a leadership programme offered by the NHS Institute and the Radiology Consulting Group, Boston. The programme involves teams who are tackling live issues within a local health economy attending...

  • HR Integration and Communication

    Peter Reilly and Wendy Hirsh worked with five councils in West London in a consortium that was jointly funded by the councils themselves and Capital Ambition. The consortium was addressing HR integration and communication - two issues of common...

  • People Strategies for Business Planning

    The Housing Ombudsman Service asked IES to support their annual business planning process by facilitating the development of the 'people' strand of the five year strategy. This included a review of existing people strategies and policies,...