Peter Duschinsky Managing Director The Imaginist Company Peter is a management consultant with over 30 years of experience of bringing best practice and new ways of working into business. An experienced and energetic project and programme manager, with a wide knowledge of management best practice, quality improvement and organisational culture change, Peter has become an acknowledged expert in e-procurement and business transformation in local authorities.

After a career in BT, Peter moved into best practice programme management 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. BuyIT is still a thriving best practice network.

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.

Recent work has included:

• 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
• developing INPACT, an integrated methodology for process and culture transformation. This is currently being used to help local authorities and NHS consortia make the changes they need to achieve efficiency and cost savings
• writing the NePP Desktop Guide to e-Procurement in Local Authority Construction
• writing 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 200 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, 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.