Putting science at the heart of public sector decisions

Today’s public sector leaders need to make decisions based on facts, not hunches.

We work with most UK government departments and public bodies, as well as renowned charities, to help them make credible, informed decisions across department planning, optimisation and performance measurement.

 

Plan

Understand your organisation’s dynamics, manage risk, and build consensus for change

We help public sector leaders to build stakeholder buy-in, manage complex drivers, and challenge the status quo, by putting data and analytics at the heart of their organisations.

Our solutions

  • Risk assessment
  • Impact assessment
  • Business and resource planning
  • Benefits realisation
  • Business intelligence and insight
  • Supply chain management

Techniques we use

  • Statistical analysis
  • Forecasting
  • Data visualisation
  • Decision analysis
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data mining
  • Spreadsheet modelling
  • Risk modelling
  • Systems modelling

Optimise

Maximise efficiency and productivity, and streamline operations

We help public sector leaders to meet their targets and maintain stakeholder confidence, with actionable insights that can improve their department’s operational performance.

Our solutions

Techniques we use

  • Statistical analysis
  • Optimisation
  • Simulation
  • Data mining
  • Spreadsheet modelling
  • Machine learning
  • Systems modelling
  • Data modelling

Measure

You’re accountable. Gain the insights you need to satisfy stakeholders.

We help public sector organisations to identify their true indicators of performance and develop the feedback mechanisms to monitor them, drive improvements, and demonstrate performance to stakeholders.

Our solutions

  • Risk assessment
  • KPI design and development
  • Performance monitoring
  • Evaluations

Techniques we use

  • Stakeholder research
  • Data capture
  • Data modelling
  • Systems modelling

 

What our clients say

“The barrier prioritisation analysis that Hartley McMaster undertook for us has become central to RNIB’s strategy and definition of itself.”

“The work was critical to understanding the barriers blind and partially sighted people face in society. It’s enabled us to concentrate on interventions that will achieve the greatest societal impact for the best social returns.”

Head of Strategy & Performance, Royal National Institute of Blind People

“Hartley McMaster’s optimisation tool means that we can now maximise the benefits from our reform programme while resolving inter-agency issues for the common good.”

Senior Business Partner, HM Courts & Tribunals Service

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