Make employees part of the solution

When Nick Clegg and David Cameron agreed to work together in coalition, they announced that “we have found that a combination of our parties’ best ideas and attitudes has produced a programme for government that is more radical and comprehensive than our individual manifestos”.

This concept of sharing ideas seems to have followed through into the way the new government is going about its business. For example, as part of the deficit reduction programme, the minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, met with the CEOs of the 19 biggest government suppliers to ask them what they could do to help cut the cost of the services they provide to government.