Overview
We help organisations, particularly local authorities, develop information strategies.
These encourage data sharing and exchange, in line with developing government views,
to provide an overview of changing local conditions.
Our Information Strategy consultants have extensive experience in the specification,
assessment and implementation of social information systems. We can provide a depth of experience; a fresh look;
or the necessary time and detachment that organisations cannot find in-house.
Key Benefits
Our strategic services help you to:
- Improve the quality of your data and data management procedures to help inform your organisations policy generation,
strategic thinking and decision-making.
- Understand the value of your spatial data holdings with our independent evaluations and quality assurance.
- Increase the efficiency of your organisation through more seamless data sharing and exchange.
- Re-use and extract the maximum value and intelligence from data sources
that already exist within your organisation, or are in the public domain, but require time, effort and expertise to find and exploit.
Our Services
MGL offers a range of services including:
- Specifying baseline data requirements to meet specific policy needs
- Advising on how to measure and report change from baselines against performance targets
- Strategic overviews of information resources and ways in which these can be developed by constructing
indicators from service data or developing protocols for data sharing
- identifying options for the analysis, presentation and delivery of information
The run up to the 2011 census is now under way.
Our strategic overviews of information resources are particularly relevant for helping authorities to establish internal procedures
to provide a coherent picture of the number of dwellings that exist in their authority at any point in time. This can be generated
from a range of separate internal applications.
Significantly, ONS wants local authorities to work with them to ensure that the enumeration frames for 2011 are as
complete and accurate as possible.
Our peer-reviewed methods were successfully used to investigate anomalies and potential undercounts from the 2001 census.
Contact Us
Please contact Robert Barr
or Dave Butler for more information.