Take an open-minded, open-dialogue approach to the commercial and funding models you consider. There is no pre-existing blueprint that will fit your needs 100 per cent.

However you approach the commercial and funding structure of your PSN, the approach must be to start definition as early as possible. Early engagement, a recurring theme, is fundamental to a successful outcome.

Collaborative funding is a mechanism to allow multiple organisations to join together available funding for their own benefit and the greater good, ensuring that all enjoy the end result in equal measures.

However, it needs to be understood that the individual organisations will have varying timelines and constraints in how quickly change can be made, and the requirement to minimise the cost of change for all participants has to be recognised from the outset.

One of the key challenges in rolling out a successful PSN project is ensuring that the payback periods are well understood, not only from the perspective of the PSN project team who own the higher level objectives, but also from the individual organisations’ perspectives, where justification on funding within individual budgets will need to be catered for.

Through our PSN experience to date, we have helped architect innovative funding mechanisms that provide a framework for collaborative funding.

For further information please download the Logicalis PSN Delivery Framework, or call 0800 8766987 where we can connect you to our PSN Delivery Team.

Download the Logicalis PSN Delivery Framework

 

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