Shared Value
Build partnerships and shared infrastructure that multiply your impact — enabling organisations to achieve together what none could achieve alone.
The most complex challenges we face cannot be solved by any single organisation. Homelessness, health inequalities, social exclusion, economic disadvantage — these are system-level problems that require system-level responses. They demand that organisations work across boundaries, share data, align their efforts, and build the shared infrastructure that enables genuinely collaborative action.
Mortar helps organisations design, build, and govern the shared digital infrastructure that makes real collaboration possible — turning aspiration into operational reality.
The Challenge
Partnership working is hard. Even when organisations want to collaborate, the practical barriers can be enormous. Data is held in incompatible systems. Legal and governance frameworks for data sharing are complex and time-consuming to navigate. Different organisations have different priorities, processes, and cultures. And the digital infrastructure needed to support genuine joint working often simply doesn't exist.
The result is that collaboration too often stays at the level of intention rather than action — or collapses under the weight of operational complexity before it can deliver the outcomes everyone hoped for.
How We Help
We work with consortia, partnerships, and multi-agency systems to design and build the shared digital infrastructure that makes collaboration work in practice.
- Shared data platforms: We design and build the shared data infrastructure that allows partner organisations to contribute, access, and act on a common picture of need and provision — within robust governance frameworks.
- Interoperability: We implement the standards and integration patterns that allow different organisations' systems to communicate with each other — reducing duplication and enabling joined-up action.
- Governance design: We develop the data sharing agreements, governance structures, and accountability frameworks that partnerships need to operate effectively and responsibly.
- Joint commissioning support: We help commissioners and providers design the shared measurement and reporting infrastructure needed to align incentives, track shared outcomes, and demonstrate collective impact.
- System mapping: We map the full landscape of services and provision across a place or system — creating the shared picture of what exists, what works, and where the gaps are.
Key Outcomes
- Alignment: Create a shared understanding of need, provision, and outcomes across partner organisations — enabling genuinely coordinated action.
- Efficiency: Eliminate duplication of effort, reduce administrative burden, and free up resources for the work that matters.
- System insight: Build the collective intelligence that allows partnerships to understand their shared system — identifying what is working, where the gaps are, and how to improve.
- Accountability: Demonstrate clearly how partnership resources are being used and what collective difference they are making.
Who This Is For
Shared value is relevant for any organisation that is part of a partnership, system, or consortium seeking to work more effectively together. Our work in this area spans integrated care systems, multi-agency safeguarding hubs, housing and health partnerships, and place-based collaborations across the public and voluntary sectors.
Get in Touch
If your organisation is part of a partnership that wants to work more effectively together — and build the shared infrastructure to make that possible — we would love to hear from you. Get in touch to discuss how we can help.