Making Public Private Partnerships Work

Michael Geddes retired from full-time consultancy in 2003. As part of his consultancy work he was the part-time Executive Director of the Milton Keynes Economic Partnership, a multi sector partnership established to coordinate the strategic development of the area. He also served for four years as a Vice Chairman of the Regional Assembly. Prior to becoming a consultant in the mid-1990s he worked in the Cabinet Office as a Civil Service Commissioner and Chief Executive of Recruitment and Assessment Services. Earlier in his career he was a Director of Ashridge Management College. Michael Geddes is also co-author of Project Leadership, also published by Gower.

• Contents: Context and the nature of public private partnerships; Partnership development process and identification of a champion; Partnership Development Strategy: Characteristics of possible partners; Partnership Development Strategy: Organizational culture; Partnership Development Strategy: Governance, resources and staffing; Managing a partnership's business; Accountability and keeping in touch; Setting targets and measuring success; Characteristics of successful partnerships; Index.

'...a genuinely practical guide to help anyone, from any sector, make partnership working a success. It certainly made me look at some of the issues in a different way.' - Julian Lomas, Strategic Director for Environment and Transport, Portsmouth City Council 'It is a concise handbook with chapter summaries, diagrams, lists and text boxes. It follows the logical sequence of planning, structuring, resourcing, managing and accounting for partnerships with sound advice on each and a useful final chapter on the characteristics of a successful partnership. ...could be useful for those in the public sector with little choice but to make their partnerships work better.' - Supply Management