Problems
Problem framing is an essential first step to begin idea generation
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Ideas
Ideas are potential solutions to problems. Ideas have not yet been implemented and require research and development.
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Innovations
Innovations are ideas which have been implemented, they continue to address a specific challenge and deliver better value to a team or organisation.
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Our first six months
The following update was given at the Finance Leadership Council in May 2022, this briefing provides a summary of what the Forum has been up to and what it will be working on moving forward.
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Innovation programme
The Innovation Programme is being developed as a mechanism to collect, validate, and share NHS finance innovations.
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NHS Finance Innovation Showcase
The online event showcased the peer reviewed and published innovations from the first two Cohorts of the Finance Innovation Forum’s Innovation Programme. The recording from the event will be available soon.
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Software Skills for Finance Staff
This series is in response to the Becoming NHS Finance Conversation and seeks to improve the software skills of NHS Finance staff in order to shorten the gap of time currently spent on manual and repetitive tasks.
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Join the Automation team
The Forum has set up an MS Team on the Virtual Finance Network dedicated to Automation, here you can ask colleagues questions about automation, discuss implementations and even share code. Furthermore as R&D opportunities appear the Forum will post in this team inviting members to volunteer on various projects.
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Art of the Possible
This briefing will evolve to contain many technologies as they emerge but starts out with two complex technologies which are not widely understood.
Art of the Possible