Adam Fineberg, Adviser | Background and publications, pod and web casts

Inclusive growth and market development
Building place’s and people’s resilience
Government services development
Outsourcing and alternatives

Systemic, collaborative and integrated working
Improving impact and outcomes
Realising productivity and efficiencies
Devolution and self-sufficiency

Profile

Extensive experience of working with organisations, internationally, nationally, sub-nationally and locally, on ‘whole system’, innovative approaches to growth and development, service provision, and making things work better and more efficiently for local people.

Influential recent work on current challenges around the UK Government’s cities, devolution, combined authorities, growth and productivity agenda, the NHS 5 Year Forward View and ‘new models of care’, social care provision and expenditure, building resilience, integration, locality working, Troubled Families, Children’s Centres etc. considering prevention, early intervention and behaviours, improved customer contact, care pathways, processes and organisational/structural change for impacts on outcomes and resources.

Supporting public service reform and government financing by opening up new and changing opportunities for service provision. In England, this comes on the back of the significant development and growth of regional health economies, now as a result of the recent devolution, combined authorities and growth agenda which is leading to larger, multi-service and geography markets.

Increasingly spanning and brokering on the part of city commissioners and outsourcing providers of government and public services the urban analyst/tech solution areas to advise on new tech solutions and ways of working to support citizen’s, communities and cities’ well-being and growth. Creating a dialogue or story concerning the tech-based future for public/government services.

International work focussing on strengths-based working, localisation, building all kinds of resilience, sub-national activity, cities, improving systems for service delivery, growth, self-sufficiency, development and ‘peace-conducive economic development’.

Devised the ‘Growth Coalitions’ and ‘Smart Local Government’ project which, through a whole-systems approach identified, created and integrated the synergy between the public service reform, inclusion and growth agendas. The UK government recently commissioned an essay on ‘Growth Coalitions’ to inform their ‘Future of Cities’ Foresight project. This ongoing ‘Growth Coalitions’ work currently influences a number of domestic and global programmes to promote city, sub-national, national and trans-national growth and development, including those addressing the benefit of good public financial management systems.

The ‘Growth Coalitions’ project applies findings from academic research on city growth, in the context of an appreciation of the outcomes derived from practice on the ground. It provides a whole system framework for realising enhanced levels of city growth and citizens’ well-being on the basis that the economy has considerable influence on these factors. ‘Smart Local Government’ provides a tailored, practical application of ‘Growth Coalitions’ methodologies.

Ongoing ‘Expert Adviser’ policy work to the UK Prime Minister’s office, Whitehall, Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties, independent reviews and global programmes. This has included work across the UK Government on the last three Spending Reviews, also the 2007 Lyons Review into Local Government, informing the ‘place shaping’ and economic development agendas. Also advised on the scoping, steering and conclusions of the Treasury’s Sub-National Review of Economic Development. Expert evidence contributed to the 2005 Number 10 Strategy Unit report on Deprived Areas which called for an economic emphasis in local efforts for regeneration. Advised the Allen Review on Early Intervention.

Commissioned to write think pieces, essays and provide comments for the UK Government, TV News, The Guardian, The Observer, Local Government Chronicle, The Municipal Journal, Regeneration and Renewal and New Start, academic journals and made presentations to LGC, The MJ, LGA, CIPFA, NLGN and other conferences on these issues. Pod and Webcasts.

Podcast

Podcast with Professor Tony Travers, LSE on Devolution and Local Government, Policy Review TV, May 2015

TV interview

Interviewed on ITV News re. Devolution and the London Living Wage, April 2016

Publications

See contributions to Regeneration and Renewal magazine’s evaluation lessons:

‘Policy must build on SRB success’, April 2007
‘Local success; regional challenges, March 2007
‘No collaboration halts LSP progress, February 2006
‘NDCs have had a ‘modest’ impact’, January 2006
‘City Growth goals remain unclear’, October 2005
‘Initiative boosts keyworker living’, October 2005
‘Early days and little impact for LSPs’, Sept 2005
‘LSPs must support the third secto, August 2005
‘Mums benefit from friendly support, June 2005
‘Excluded kids can rise to challenge’, May 2005

Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information. Setting agenda/writing discussion papers for “Oslo round” multilateral peace talks. Fineberg. A. ‘Regional cooperation in the tourism industry’, Israel/Palestine-Issues in Conflict-Issues for Co-operation. Vol. 2 (6) August 1993

Abstract, Masters degree thesis, Partnerships for local economic development. A cross-Atlantic comparative study of initiatives between the public and private sectors, 1992

Webcasts

Troubled Families, The MJ conference: Tackling Troubled Families, Early Intervention strategies for success, London, 20 September 2012, Key Issue Seminar: Progressive models for local integrated working around the family

Community Based Budgeting, The MJ conference: The Next Step in Total Place, London, 10 February 2011, Presentation: Learning Lessons: community budgets, enhanced outcomes and realising efficiencies – what’s required to meet the challenges

Total Place, The MJ conference: Tackling worklessness through local partnerships, London, 26 October 2010, Presentation: Growth coalitions and smart local government – incentivising growth-focussed integrated local services to alleviate worklessness

Total Place, The MJ conference: A new opportunity? London, 18 Feb 2010, Interactive seminar: Progressing Total Place type activity across your locality

The LGA conference: Key messages from the pilot process and lessons for roll-out, 20 May 2005, Presentation: LEGI, ‘growth coalitions’ and ‘smart local government’

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E mail: adam@fineberg.org.uk

Call: + 44 7949 705152

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Growth Coalitions Ltd.

Company number 09044733

London, United Kingdom