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For local authorities, public-service teams, funding programmes, partnerships and corporate functions coordinating requests, referrals, cases, partners, funding, finance and reporting. Public Sector is not one operating model, so this page qualifies the service problem before it suggests any technology.

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Start with the service problem, then design the technology around it.

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In short

What a public-service leader should take from this page.

Eleven points. If you read nothing else, these decide which route is worth a conversation.

  1. 01

    Public Sector is not one operating model

    A council, a delivery team, a funding programme, a partnership, a care service and a corporate back office face different problems.

  2. 02

    Start with the service problem

    Start with the service problem, then design the technology around it.

  3. 03

    CRMS is one qualified route

    CRMS is a purpose-built solution for crisis, hardship and community-resilience support. It is not the whole Public Sector proposition.

  4. 04

    Care routes through Healthcare & Care

    Healthcare & Care is the canonical route for care-service requirements, with CMS qualified only where the operating model fits.

  5. 05

    CRM, Power Platform, ERP, Data and Integration are all valid

    A standard route is often the more proportionate answer than a purpose-built solution.

  6. 06

    Each information domain needs an owner

    Connected services require clear ownership of information, not one database containing everything.

  7. 07

    Cross-agency access must be designed

    Cross-organisational working is an information-sharing design problem before it is a portal decision.

  8. 08

    The commercial route follows the situation

    Assessment, Transform, implementation, RAPID qualification, Recover, Optimise, Support and Partner Transition answer different starting points.

  9. 09

    Go-live is proven, not asserted

    Four confidence gates test service, platform, end-to-end proof and operational readiness.

  10. 10

    The organisation stays accountable

    We can implement an approved operating model. The organisation remains accountable for the service, statutory, funding and governance decisions behind it.

  11. 11

    Evidence is stated honestly

    No published customer video is centrally verified as Public Sector evidence today.

The operating reality

Public-service teams can be constrained by fragmented information, ownership and processes even when people are working hard to deliver the service.

The difficulty is often giving those people a complete enough view to coordinate the work around them.

Technology may be only one part of the problem. Fragmented process, information, ownership and partner working can matter just as much.

  • Information is fragmented

    Important information can sit across systems, spreadsheets, documents and inboxes.

  • Work crosses organisations

    Councils, providers, charities, clinical teams and community partners may all contribute to the same outcome.

  • Decisions have consequences

    Funding, referrals, safeguarding, incidents and service capacity require accountability.

  • Administration consumes capacity

    Repeated entry, chasing information and manual reporting take time away from higher-value work.

  • Leadership needs visibility

    Operational problems are difficult to manage when the information needed to understand them arrives late.

The goal is not another system. It is a clearer way to operate.

Technology creates value when it improves how information moves, how work is coordinated and how decisions are understood. Our public-sector approach starts with the operating problem before deciding what technology should do. Designed around the work, not around the software.

Operating archetypes

Which kind of public organisation or service is this?

These are orientation categories rather than packaged products. Not every public organisation operates identically, and the archetype decides which parts of this page matter.

  • Local authority or council

    Resident and customer interaction, service requests, referrals, cases, partners, funding, finance, data and reporting under one accountability structure.

  • Public-service delivery team

    A specific service with its own demand, ownership, decisions and outcome expectations, often inside a larger organisation.

  • Commissioning or funding programme

    Money, programme conditions, providers and evidence coordinated across organisations that the commissioner does not operate.

  • Multi-agency or community partnership

    Several organisations contributing to one outcome, where information sharing and ownership matter more than any single system.

  • Public-sector care service

    A care operating model, which routes to Healthcare & Care before any CMS qualification.

  • Corporate or back-office public sector

    Finance, procurement, supplier, project and management reporting requirements rather than front-line service work.

  • Other

    Public organisations vary. Housing, public bodies and hybrid arrangements each change the operating question.

  • Not sure

    Where the model is genuinely mixed, orientation is a more honest first step than a proposal.

Relevance and limits

The proposition is relevant to councils, local authorities and other public-service organisations managing resident and customer interaction, service requests, referrals, cases, partners, funding, finance, data, reporting and operational improvement. We do not imply broader central-government experience.

  • No council or local-government customer evidence is claimed
  • No Public Sector customer outcomes are claimed
  • No statutory or accessibility compliance is claimed
  • No public-sector certification is claimed
  • No NHS capability is claimed
  • No emergency-planning or business-continuity capability is claimed
  • No CRMS or CMS customer outcomes are claimed
  • No implementation duration is promised

Where we help

Start with the problem, not the product.

Ten starting points. Each one leads somewhere different, and none of them selects technology automatically.

  • Resident or customer service

    Contact, request, routing, service and resolution across the channels the organisation actually operates.

    Potentially Dynamics 365 CRM or Customer Service.

    Explore CRM
  • General case or workflow

    Work that needs ownership over time, with stages, actions, evidence and an audit trail.

    Potentially Dynamics 365 CRM or Power Platform.

    Explore Power Platform
  • Crisis or community support

    Requests, assessment, eligibility, funding, partner working and evidence for hardship and community-resilience services.

    CRMS qualification.

    Explore CRMS
  • Care service

    Care coordination around referral, assessment, planning, incidents and capacity.

    Route first to Healthcare & Care, then CMS qualification where appropriate.

    Explore Healthcare & Care
  • Finance or corporate operations

    Ledger, payables, receivables, cash, budget, procurement, project, supplier and management reporting.

    ERP qualification between Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance.

    See the ERP qualification
  • Data or reporting

    Definitions, data quality, demand and performance reporting derived from a governed model.

    Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.

    Explore Power BI & Fabric
  • Integration

    Connecting service, finance, identity, document, partner and specialist systems deliberately.

    Approved integration architecture.

    Explore Integration
  • Existing programme in trouble

    An implementation that has lost confidence or control.

    Recover.

    Explore Recover
  • Live platform needing improvement

    A working platform that still contains worthwhile friction.

    Optimise.

    Explore Optimise
  • Not sure

    Where the problem, scope or correct route is unclear.

    Assessment.

    Explore Assessments

Resident and customer service

How a person or organisation reaches a service.

A general public-service interaction model. Not every contact should become a case, and forcing one is how services acquire administration they never needed.

  1. Contact

    An interaction with the service, through whichever route the person or organisation used.

  2. Request

    Something the person or organisation needs from the service, captured once.

  3. Route

    The request reaches the team, service or partner that should own it.

  4. Service

    The service responds within its own defined process and commitments.

  5. Case where required

    A managed unit of work is created only where ownership over time is genuinely needed.

  6. Action

    The work moves forward, with the owner and next action visible.

  7. Communication

    The person, organisation or partner is kept informed through an agreed route.

  8. Resolution or outcome

    The result is recorded in the organisation's own terms, with the evidence it defines.

Requests, referrals and cases

Four different things, often called the same thing.

The distinction decides how much process the service has to carry and where ownership genuinely sits.

  • Contact

    An interaction. It does not automatically become anything else.

  • Request

    Something the person or organisation needs from the service.

  • Case

    A managed unit of work requiring ownership over time.

  • Referral

    A request or transfer involving another service or organisation.

CRM route

Not every case-based service needs a purpose-built solution.

A standard Dynamics 365 or Power Platform route may be the more proportionate answer, and it is often faster to govern and cheaper to support.

Potential public-sector CRM areas

  • People and organisations
  • Resident or customer relationship
  • Request
  • Case
  • Queue
  • Complaint
  • Communication
  • Service
  • Knowledge
  • Partner relationship

Power Platform route

Use Power Platform where a focused service process needs structure.

Do not create an unmanaged application estate simply because low-code makes building easy. Each app still needs an owner, a lifecycle and a support position.

Potential focused processes

  • Forms
  • Workflow
  • Approvals
  • Internal service apps
  • Inspection
  • Case extensions
  • Partner forms
  • Automation

CRMS

Crisis & Resilience Management System.

CRMS remains our principal purpose-built Public Sector solution, for crisis support, hardship support and community resilience. It is one qualified route, not the whole proposition.

The boundary, stated up front

CRMS is focused on crisis support, hardship and community-resilience services. It is not currently positioned as an emergency-planning, incident-command or business-continuity platform.

The name can imply wider emergency-management capability, so we say this before procurement rather than during it. The dedicated CRMS page remains canonical for the full boundary.

What CRMS coordinates

  • Request and referral management
  • Assessment and eligibility
  • Case coordination
  • Partner working
  • Funding and support decisions
  • Evidence and documentation
  • Approvals
  • Communication
  • Operational visibility
  • Reporting and audit trail
Explore CRMS

Public-sector care services

Care requirements route through Healthcare & Care first.

Public Sector may reference CMS, but it does not own the proposition. Healthcare & Care is the canonical parent route for care-service requirements.

  1. 01Public-sector care service
  2. 02Healthcare & Care
  3. 03CMS qualification where the operating model fits

CMS supports care-service coordination around referral, assessment, care and service information, planning, incidents, safeguarding workflow, capacity, family and representative communication and operational reporting, while specialist clinical systems retain authority where appropriate.

Corporate and finance

ERP fit follows the financial and operating model, not the fact that the organisation is public sector.

Front-line service work is only part of the picture. Corporate and back-office requirements deserve their own qualification.

Potential requirements

  • General ledger
  • Accounts payable
  • Accounts receivable
  • Cash
  • Budget
  • Procurement
  • Project
  • Supplier
  • Management reporting

Business Central

Potential fit where the combined operating and finance requirement fits responsibly within the platform, including ledger, payables, receivables, cash, budget, procurement and management reporting.

Explore Business Central

Dynamics 365 Finance

Potential fit where deeper enterprise, entity, control or financial complexity warrants it, including multiple entities, segregation of duties and broader enterprise integration.

Explore Finance & Supply Chain

We do not claim local-government-specific finance functionality unless it has been verified.

Funding and finance

A service platform may record why support was approved and what was committed.

The finance system remains authoritative for the accounting transaction where appropriate. Separating the two keeps both records honest.

The service or case system may hold

  • Service decision
  • Reason for the decision
  • Commitment
  • Programme or fund context
  • Supporting evidence

The finance system may hold

  • Accounting transaction
  • Payment
  • Ledger position
  • Financial actual

Commissioning and funding models

Where money, programme and provider are different organisations.

Where relevant, the chain runs from commissioner to outcome. We do not imply procurement, grant or contract-management functionality unless it has been verified.

  1. Commissioner

    The organisation accountable for the service being available and funded.

  2. Programme

    The funded programme, its conditions and its reporting expectations.

  3. Provider or partner

    The organisation actually delivering part of the service.

  4. Service

    The activity people receive, however it is arranged.

  5. Funding or commitment

    What has been approved and committed, and on what basis.

  6. Evidence

    The information the programme requires to support the commitment.

  7. Outcome and reporting

    The outcome definitions the organisation has set, reported from the record.

Partner working

Public outcomes often cross organisational boundaries.

Cross-organisational working is an information-sharing design problem before it is a portal decision. Four interaction patterns, chosen deliberately.

  • No direct access

    Controlled communication and documents, with no partner login into the service platform.

  • Form or portal

    Purpose-specific structured external interaction, scoped to the information the process genuinely needs.

  • Direct application access

    Only where identity, security, licensing and operational need justify it.

  • System-to-system integration

    Where the partner already has an operational platform of their own.

What each partner relationship has to settle

  • Referral
  • Handover
  • Ownership
  • Evidence
  • Communication
  • Funding
  • Escalation
  • Reporting

Data authority

Connected services require clear ownership of information, not one database containing everything.

For each domain, establish the authoritative system, the consumers, the update direction, the access position and how the record is reconciled.

  • Authoritative system
  • Consumers
  • Update direction
  • Access
  • Reconciliation
  • Person or resident identity

    The person the service acts for, and how they are recognised across services.

  • Request or referral

    What was asked for, by whom, through which route.

  • Case

    The managed work, its owner, its stage and its next action.

  • Funding decision

    What was approved, why, and against which programme.

  • Financial transaction

    The accounting entry, payment and ledger position.

  • Clinical information

    Retained by the specialist clinical system where it remains authoritative.

  • Workforce

    Staff, roles and availability held where HR or rostering is authoritative.

  • Property or asset

    Where applicable, held in the asset, housing or GIS system of record.

  • Documents

    Where the document lives, who can reach it and how long it is kept.

  • Analytics

    A reporting model built from the operating records rather than beside them.

Information minimisation

Only bring information into the service platform where there is a defined operational purpose.

A nine-point test for each important piece of information. It is quicker than removing the information later.

  1. 01Purpose
  2. 02Owner
  3. 03Source
  4. 04Minimum information
  5. 05Access
  6. 06Update authority
  7. 07Sharing
  8. 08Retention
  9. 09Audit

Especially important for

  • Vulnerability
  • Safeguarding
  • Health
  • Financial hardship
  • Family or household
  • Partner information

Safeguarding responsibility

The platform can support an approved safeguarding workflow.

It does not determine what constitutes a safeguarding concern or what statutory action is required.

The organisation owns

  • Safeguarding policy
  • Thresholds
  • Professional decisions
  • Escalation
  • Statutory process
  • External referral
  • Information-sharing decisions

The platform may support

  • Recording
  • Routing
  • Ownership
  • Escalation
  • Evidence
  • Status
  • Audit

Accessibility and assisted digital

Digital access should not become the only route into a public service simply because a form exists.

Public services may need multiple front doors. The design should reflect the routes the organisation intends to keep.

  • Online self-service
  • Staff-assisted
  • Telephone
  • Email
  • Internal referral
  • Partner referral
  • Other approved route

We do not claim accessibility compliance unless it has been validated. Detailed intake design for crisis and community support is covered on the CRMS page.

Explore CRMS intake design

Microsoft foundation

Responsibilities first, technology second.

Where Microsoft services are already part of the organisation's approved architecture, business applications can extend that environment while specialist systems remain where they are still required.

Then the individual technologies

  • Dynamics 365

    Structured service, case and customer processes.

  • Power Platform

    Configurable applications built around the service.

  • Dataverse

    May provide a governed operational data layer for the service processes implemented on the Microsoft platform.

  • Power Automate

    Routine steps handled consistently against approved rules.

  • Power BI

    Operational and leadership reporting from a governed data model.

  • Microsoft 365

    Collaboration around the work where relevant.

  • Azure services

    Applied where integration or scale requires it.

Integration

Every material interface needs eleven answers.

Integration is where connected services succeed or quietly fail. These questions are cheaper to answer before build than after go-live.

Systems that may be involved

  • Finance
  • Identity
  • Case systems
  • Care systems
  • Workforce
  • GIS
  • Property or asset
  • Documents
  • Payments
  • Websites and forms
  • Partner systems
  • Data platforms
  1. Purpose

    Why the interface exists, in service terms.

  2. Authority

    Which system is authoritative for the information being moved.

  3. Source

    Where the information genuinely originates.

  4. Target

    Which system consumes it, and for which process.

  5. Data

    The minimum information the process needs, not everything available.

  6. Identity

    How the same person or organisation is recognised on both sides.

  7. Timing

    Real time, scheduled or event driven, agreed against the operational need.

  8. Failure

    What happens when the interface does not complete.

  9. Reconciliation

    How both sides are proven to agree afterwards.

  10. Monitoring

    How a failure becomes visible before a service user reports it.

  11. Support owner

    Who is accountable for the interface once it is live.

Service continuity

A public service still needs an operating model when one of its systems is unavailable.

Continuity is an operating design question, not a hosting statistic. We do not publish uptime or recovery targets.

  1. Critical service

    The services that must keep operating, in priority order.

  2. Technology dependency

    The platforms, integrations and identity services each one relies on.

  3. Failure

    What each dependency does when it degrades rather than fails cleanly.

  4. Fallback

    The agreed manual or degraded process, and who is authorised to invoke it.

  5. Recovery

    How the backlog and queued work are brought back under control.

  6. Reconciliation

    How activity during the outage is proven complete afterwards.

  7. Review

    What the organisation changes as a result.

Questions worth answering before go-live

  • How are requests captured during downtime?
  • What information must staff retain access to?
  • What happens when an integration fails?
  • Can work queue safely?
  • How is a partner failure handled?
  • How is activity reconciled after restoration?
  • Who owns service recovery?

Activity, output and outcome

A closed case is not the same as a public outcome.

The platform can record and report the organisation's defined outcome evidence. It does not prove public value simply because a case reaches closure.

  1. Demand

    What is arriving, from where, and at what rate.

  2. Activity

    What the service actually did in response.

  3. Output

    What was produced or delivered.

  4. Outcome

    The change the organisation set out to achieve, defined by the organisation.

  5. Evidence

    The information the organisation accepts as proof of that outcome.

  6. Review

    What leadership changes as a result.

We do not invent outcome frameworks. The organisation defines what an outcome is and what evidence supports it, and the platform reports against that definition.

Design principles

Designed around the work, not around the software.

Eight principles that hold whichever route the organisation takes.

  • One operational view

    Bring relevant information together around the work being performed.

  • Structured workflow

    Make stages, ownership and next actions visible.

  • Accountability

    Keep important decisions, approvals and activity traceable.

  • Partner working

    Public outcomes often cross organisational boundaries, so design for work that extends beyond one internal team.

  • Role-based experience

    Give people the information relevant to their responsibility.

  • Reporting from the process

    Capture operational information in a structured way so management reporting can be derived from a governed data model rather than reconstructed manually.

  • Human oversight

    Technology supports professional judgement rather than pretending to replace it.

  • Trusted information

    Better decisions start with information people can trust.

Access

Who should be able to see what?

Access is designed around roles and responsibilities rather than assumed from a generic configuration.

Accountability

Can important actions and decisions be understood later?

Decisions, approvals and status changes should remain traceable to a person and a point in time.

Data responsibility

Who owns the quality and meaning of the information?

Ownership of definitions and data quality belongs with the service, supported by the design.

Human decision-making

Where should professional judgement remain central?

High-impact decisions stay with accountable people. The system supports the process around them.

Change control

How are changes introduced without destabilising the service?

Changes are prioritised, tested and released in a way the service can absorb.

Transparency

Can users understand how the process is working?

People should be able to see where work sits, who owns it and what happens next.

Commercial routes

The right route depends on how much is still undecided.

CRMS and CMS are solution and capability routes, not substitutes for the commercial lifecycle. Data & AI is a capability rather than a universal commercial route.

  • Assessment

    Where the problem, scope or correct route is unclear.

    Explore Assessments
  • Transform

    Where the future service or corporate operating model still needs defining.

    Explore Transform
  • Standard implementation

    Where operating model and platform are sufficiently understood and conventional governed implementation is appropriate.

    Explore Implementation
  • RAPID qualification

    Only where the underlying bounded scope and platform meet the approved strict-fit conditions.

    Explore RAPID
  • Recover

    Where an implementation has lost confidence or control.

    Explore Recover
  • Optimise

    Where a live platform contains worthwhile friction.

    Explore Optimise
  • Support

    Where agreed capability needs dependable operational support.

    Explore Support
  • Partner Transition

    Where the platform can remain but Microsoft partner responsibility needs changing.

    Explore Partner Transition

RAPID, strictly qualified

  1. 01Operating model fit
  2. 02Platform fit
  3. 03Delivery fit

A bounded CRM, Power Platform or Business Central requirement may qualify for RAPID where the approved conditions are met. Public Sector, CRMS, CMS or cross-agency complexity does not automatically create RAPID suitability. We do not promise an implementation duration.

Explore RAPID

Support, Customer Success and Optimise

Support keeps agreed supported capability operating under the contracted service. Customer Success reviews service priorities, value, risk and future decisions. Optimise executes justified improvement. Recovery is used when programme control or confidence has materially deteriorated. No change remains a valid review outcome.

Explore Customer Success

Confidence gates

Four points where public-service confidence is re-confirmed.

A gate is a decision point rather than a milestone to pass. Each one can confirm the plan, pause it, or reduce scope, and each is evidenced rather than asserted.

  1. Gate 1

    Before commitment

    Service and responsibility confidence

    Before scope is committed, the service and the people accountable for its decisions should be understood well enough to plan responsibly.

    Confirmed at this gate

    • Organisation and service model
    • Service outcome
    • Users
    • Channels
    • Service owner
    • Decision owners
    • Policy owners
    • Safeguarding where relevant
    • Funding or commissioning where relevant
    • Partners
    • Specialist systems
    • The problem to solve

    Decision

    Proceed · Assessment · Transform first · A different route

  2. Gate 2

    Before build

    Platform, information and governance confidence

    Before configuration begins, each capability and each information domain should have an agreed owner, an agreed boundary and an agreed governance position.

    Confirmed at this gate

    • CRM
    • Power Platform
    • CRMS
    • Healthcare and CMS where relevant
    • ERP
    • Data authority
    • External access
    • Information sharing
    • Security
    • Retention
    • Integration
    • Migration
    • Reporting
    • Licensing
    • Accessibility
    • Continuity
    • First-release scope

    Decision

    Proceed · Re-scope · Retain a specialist system · Resolve readiness

  3. Gate 3

    Before go-live decision

    End-to-end service proof

    A representative service journey should be proven with real data, including the exceptions that occur on a normal working day.

    Confirmed at this gate

    • Contact or request to assessment where relevant
    • Ownership and decision
    • Action and partner handoff
    • Communication
    • Funding or finance where relevant
    • Reporting
    • Missing information
    • Duplicate request
    • Access restriction
    • Exception handling
    • Safeguarding workflow
    • Integration failure and downtime
    • Audit

    Decision

    Proceed · Remediate · Re-test

  4. Gate 4

    Go-live decision

    Operational go-live readiness

    The final gate asks whether the service can continue and whether work already in progress keeps its ownership, context and commitments.

    Confirmed at this gate

    • Active requests
    • Referrals
    • Cases
    • Decisions
    • Partner activity
    • Funding commitments
    • Finance interfaces
    • Migrated data
    • Front door and forms
    • Users and external access
    • Integrations
    • Reporting
    • Continuity
    • Support and ownership
    • Open risks

    Decision

    Go · No-go · Controlled deferral

Go-live confidence should come from proving the service can continue through the new operating model, not simply that the technology is configured.

Shared responsibility

Some of this only you can do.

We can implement an approved operating model. The organisation remains accountable for the service, statutory, funding and governance decisions behind it.

  • The organisation owns

    • Service policy
    • Statutory interpretation
    • Eligibility rules
    • Funding rules
    • Delegated authority
    • Safeguarding policy
    • Information-governance decisions
    • Lawful sharing decisions
    • Retention
    • Accessibility requirements
    • Finance and accounting treatment
    • Service outcomes
    • Partner agreements
    • Data validation
    • User acceptance testing
    • Cutover
    • Adoption
    • Continuity
  • InteliSense may provide where agreed

    • Process design
    • Architecture
    • Platform qualification
    • Configuration
    • Development
    • Integration
    • Migration
    • Security configuration
    • Testing
    • Reporting
    • Delivery assurance
    • Cutover support
    • Risk visibility

Delivery and cutover

Cutover must preserve ownership, context and outstanding commitments for work already in progress.

Twelve delivery stages, and fourteen live positions that need an agreed treatment before the switch. We do not assume one big-bang cutover.

  1. Understand

    Map the service, users, information and decision points.

  2. Design

    Define the future operating process and information model.

  3. Validate

    Use real scenarios with the people who perform the work.

  4. Build

    Configure the agreed solution.

  5. Connect

    Establish the integrations the service genuinely needs.

  6. Migrate

    Move the information the future service requires.

  7. Prove

    Test workflow, roles, information, exceptions and reporting.

  8. Prepare

    Ready the people, the fallback and the cutover plan.

  9. Cutover

    Transfer live work without losing ownership or commitments.

  10. Stabilise

    Hold the service steady while the new process settles.

  11. Operate

    Run under the agreed support and governance arrangements.

  12. Review

    Use operational experience and data to refine the service.

Live state that has to survive the transition

  1. 01Active requests
  2. 02Referrals
  3. 03Cases
  4. 04Owners
  5. 05Next actions
  6. 06Funding commitments
  7. 07Open decisions
  8. 08Partner actions
  9. 09Current documents
  10. 10Timers and service commitments
  11. 11Forms
  12. 12Integrations
  13. 13Users and access
  14. 14Reporting
Explore the implementation methodology

Foundations

The work that decides whether the operating model holds.

Migration, adoption, security and licensing are not administrative afterthoughts. Each has its own page, and each affects whether the service behaves as designed.

Value realisation

Value should be judged by the service outcome or operating burden that changes, not by how many features are configured.

Each outcome runs from baseline to evidence. We do not publish savings or improvement percentages we cannot evidence.

Request administration

Baseline
Current effort spent re-keying and chasing information for a single request.
Operating change
One capture point per request, with routing rules the service owns.
Platform capability
Structured request capture, routing and ownership.
Adoption
Front-line and service teams working the same front door.
Evidence and review
Observed movement against the baseline, reviewed rather than assumed.

Case ownership and chasing

Baseline
Current volume of referral chasing and cases without a clear owner.
Operating change
Stages, ownership and next actions defined by the service.
Platform capability
Visible ownership, queues and escalation.
Adoption
Managers using the record rather than a parallel spreadsheet.
Evidence and review
Unresolved work and chasing effort tracked over time.

Decision waiting time

Baseline
Current time spent waiting for approvals and decisions to be recorded.
Operating change
Delegated authority and approval routes agreed by the organisation.
Platform capability
Approval workflow with an audit trail.
Adoption
Approvers working in the system where the decision is recorded.
Evidence and review
Waiting time observed against the same baseline.

Funding and reporting effort

Baseline
Current effort to reconcile funding commitments and produce reporting.
Operating change
Service decision and financial transaction separated with clear authority.
Platform capability
Commitment recorded in the service platform, actuals in finance, reporting from a governed model.
Adoption
Service and finance teams reviewing the same figures.
Evidence and review
Reconciliation and reporting effort observed rather than promised.

AI with accountability

Human oversight should follow consequence, delegated authority and the organisation's approved policy.

These are candidate use cases, not claims. AI does not independently determine vulnerability, eligibility, safeguarding, funding or clinical decisions.

  1. 01 Retrieve or summarise

    AI may assist within approved information boundaries, such as summarising a record or finding relevant information.

  2. 02 Draft or prepare

    Drafting routine communication or reporting, with human review where required.

  3. 03 Administrative routing

    Automation may act against approved rules, such as routing an exception to the right queue.

  4. 04 Recommend or surface an exception

    Preparing information for triage or prioritisation where an accountable person remains responsible for the decision.

  5. 05 High-impact decision

    Eligibility, funding, safeguarding and clinical decisions remain with accountable human authority.

Lower-risk starting points

  • Summarising information
  • Helping users find relevant records
  • Identifying missing information
  • Drafting routine communication
  • Preparing information for triage or prioritisation
  • Highlighting patterns
  • Supporting reporting
  • Surfacing potential exceptions

Leadership views

Different roles need different views of the same service.

Job titles vary across public organisations, so these are responsibilities rather than assumed titles.

Chief executive or senior leadership

Demand, risk, outcomes and service pressure.

Finance leadership

Funding commitments, budgets, finance position and reconciliation.

Service director

Demand, backlog, capacity, partner delivery and outcomes.

CIO or digital leadership

Architecture, security, integration, resilience and change.

Data or performance leadership

Definitions, data quality, reporting and evidence.

Questions leadership should be able to answer

  • Where is demand increasing?
  • Where are cases or requests slowing down?
  • Where is capacity under pressure?
  • Which partners are involved?
  • Where are decisions waiting?
  • What funding or support has been committed?
  • Where are incidents or risks increasing?
  • What outcomes are being achieved?
  • Where is administration consuming capacity?

Going deeper

The detail behind the routing.

Progressive disclosure for the areas that decide how much process a service ends up carrying.

How we work

Start with the service problem, then design the technology around it.

The same working principles apply whether the answer is CRM, Power Platform, CRMS, ERP, data or integration.

  • Understand before building

    Start with the service problem, then design the technology around it.

  • Make decisions visible

    Expose assumptions and trade-offs early.

  • Use standard capability where it fits

    Avoid complexity without business value.

  • Involve the people doing the work

    Validate with real users and real scenarios.

  • Make data part of the design

    Do not leave information quality until reporting fails.

  • Keep ownership clear

    Technology should strengthen accountability, not obscure it.

  • Improve after go-live

    Treat the first release as the beginning of operational learning.

Evidence

What our Public Sector evidence actually proves today.

We do not currently have a published customer video centrally verified as Public Sector evidence. CRMS and CMS are developed propositions rather than Public Sector customer outcome evidence.

No published customer video is centrally verified as Public Sector evidence. Our current published customer evidence relates to manufacturing, a membership organisation and general InteliSense customers, and we do not present those as Public Sector proof. Public Sector evidence will be published once the customer, the sector, the engagement and the approved claims have been verified.

Company-level customer evidence is published separately and clearly labelled as such. It shows what working with InteliSense is like, not what we have delivered in the public sector.

See company-level customer stories

Where to start

Tell us where you are, and we will tell you what the situation supports.

Four questions. The answers are carried into the conversation, so nothing needs repeating. We do not select CRMS, CMS or any other platform from a form.

1. Where are you today?

This is what decides the commercial route. Everything else refines it.

2. What kind of organisation or service is this?

Choose every option that applies. Public Sector is not one operating model.

3. Where does the pressure sit today?
4. What runs the service today?

Indicative signal

Answer the questions and we will show a likely starting point. This is orientation rather than a recommendation. We do not select CRMS, CMS, a platform or an acceleration route from a form. Please keep answers at organisation and service level.

Your answers are carried through, so you will not be asked to repeat them. Final qualification is always a conversation.

Common questions

Questions public-service leaders ask.

Coordinate the service, not just the software

Which service problem needs to change, and who owns the decision behind it?

If requests, referrals, cases, partner working, funding, finance or reporting are harder to coordinate than they should be, we can help you understand where the constraint sits and which capability and commercial route your situation genuinely supports.

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