An insight into the minds behind Anenta
Founded in 2014 following the reform of the NHS and the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act, the Founders and Directors of Anenta identified identified sign
ificant failings in the delivery of waste management solutions to the sector, costing the NHS and businesses millions of pounds each year.
Combining their technical knowledge of healthcare waste and associated operational experience with an unrivalled ability in software development, they created Vector to set this right.
The Founders wanted to create a new way of managing existing and newly procured waste disposal contracts that was completely transparent for all participating parties whether waste producer, waste disposal company or contract owner (Contract Authority).
With extensive experience in waste management, Anenta’s senior team believed they could achieve something not yet seen in the industry.
“Our previous roles within the public sector, particularly in the NHS, helped us understand the unique challenges created by changing governmental strategies and priorities,”
says Graham Flynn, Managing Director of Anenta.
“Knowing the financial constraints and stringent procurement rules that the NHS has to operate under, gave us the ability to assist the public sector in delivering to its targets, whilst taking this knowledge and applying it to other healthcare sectors such as care homes and those services delivered by Local Authorities.”
Working together, Anenta’s senior team quickly identified that the only way to enable the healthcare sector to hit its targets – and to make savings within the strict parameters that it must operate – was to deploy an online management system that enables the tracking of queries against contract specifications through the analysis of data. So, they invested over £1m, as well as a great deal of time and effort, to create an agile tech solution to the address the challenge – Vector. Today, they continue to invest heavily in the platform, constantly improving and evolving the system. They have no plans to press pause on that process.
As Graham says: “The importance of data in this sector cannot be underestimated. It is the single most important aspect that facilitates change. Analysing historical data unlocks the potential for the future and gives clear insight into how your organisation can improve.”
At its core, Anenta is a data driven company. It’s an obsession that its management team are proud of as data demonstrates with total transparency everything from service inefficiency and effective capacity utilisation to inefficient collection routes.
While they are happy to delve in the detail, so that clients don’t have to, they are also crystal clear that delivering data in an easily digestible format is key. It’s why Anenta’s mantra is ‘to remove confusion from the sector’ and ‘to take the waste out of waste management’.
Combined with their focus on being better and ‘telling it like it is’, Anenta continually adapts and changes to better serve its clients.
“We believe that our retention of clients is a direct result of our self-critical approach and our dedication to being transparent about it,” says Graham. “We are committed to showing how we plan to develop, adapt and change, and we strive to learn and enhance our service each and every day. It’s something that we want our clients to be part of: to do things better, more efficiently and to drive change that enhances the environment as a priority, benefiting the bottom line as a by-product.”
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