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Operations and process management

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How to improve operational services

Published on: 28 Feb 2023

Insight Good practice guides

People and operations

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HMRC customer service

Published on: 15 May 2024

Report Value for money

Project and service delivery

DWP customer service 

Published on: 23 Jul 2024

Report Value for money

Work, welfare and pensions

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Lessons learned: Improving operational capability to provide better customer services

Summer 2025

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Operations and process management

Improving family court services for children

Spring 2025

Work in progress

Child maintenance

Investigation into the performance of HM Passport Office

Published on: 9 Dec 2022

Report Value for money

COVID-19

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Government Shared Services

Published on: 30 Nov 2022

Report Value for money

Commercial and financial management

Efficient services – it ain’t just what you do, it’s the way that you do it…

Published on: 23 Sep 2022

Insight Opinion

Project and service delivery

Improving services is a team game

Published on: 28 Apr 2021

Insight Opinion

Operations and process management

Improving operational delivery in government

Published on: 30 Mar 2021

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People and operations

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