Peter Duschinsky Managing Director The Imaginist Company   Peter Duschinsky is a change management consultant with over 30 years of experience of bringing best practice and new ways of working into the UK business and public sectors.

After a career in BT, Peter moved into best practice programme management to run a national best practice experience-sharing group and was for 8 years a director of BuyIT, the national e-business experience-sharing and best practice organisation, where in 2000 he established the e-Procurement Best Practice Group, with 40+ senior level members from industry, trade & professional institutions and government.

In 2003, Peter left BuyIT to set up The Imaginist Company in order to focus on helping smaller companies survive and thrive in e-business and became an acknowledged expert in the complex public sector customer/supporter relationship with SMEs. During 2002-4 he led the Supplier Adoption strand of the local government National e-Procurement Project (NePP), where his work helped to form current government policy towards SME suppliers.

This work led to his developing a new capability/complexity assessment methodology: INPACT (Integrated Process and Culture Transformation) to help his clients improve the level of success from their modernisation and change projects. He has set out the principles of his approach in his new book, The Change

• Working with Procserve (division of PA) to launch a new 'lite' version of the government's e-marketplace, Zanzibar, for smaller public sector and social enterprise organisations
• Advice and support to the Director of Finance, Children’s Welfare Development Council; reviewing and revising their management policy infrastructure; overhaul of CWDC’s procurement and information security policies and procedures to equip them for their newly-acquired status as an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body
• Specification and project management of online procurement planning system and web-based Approved Supplier system at CWDC
• Post-implementation system review and forward strategic review of e-procurement at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust; developed approach to standardise medical product procurement across the Trust
• leading a team of associated to undertake over 50 e-procurement reviews for local authorities for the NePP Support for Authorities project, and advising many more authorities on their e-procurement programmes at workshops and events
• writing the NePP Desktop Guide to e-Procurement in Local Authority Construction and the NePP Desktop Guide to e-Contract Management Systems
• leading a team of associates carrying out change management projects for the Welsh Assembly as part of a framework contract with PSMW
• setting up and leading a Business Online project in Newham to e-enable 350 local SMEs to take advantage of the major regeneration opportunities happening in that part of London.

Peter, a qualified NLP practitioner, has an excellent track record of lateral thinking, team leadership, effective communication at executive level, facilitating change in organisations and management of complex programmes, delivering them on time and to budget and achieving outstanding results.