PA has a unique breadth of expertise. Below are the particular service areas where you could find yourself working as an analyst at PA. To help you decide which area is best for you we give a breakdown below of these service areas.
Business operations and performance
Operations consulting: we work with clients to ensure that business processes become the mechanism for delivering the strategic intent of the business.
Decision sciences
This is PA's center of excellence for business modeling and operational research. Decision sciences develops models using techniques such as simulation, decision analysis, business process modeling, optimization, scheduling and economic modeling to solve our clients’ business problems.
Industry consulting
We tackle a range of issues facing clients around the world:
- Government services consulting: we are a major player with active projects in central and local government, the armed services, the police, health and transport. We have built up unrivalled expertise in strategic sourcing, business process outsourcing, market testing and privatization.
- Financial services: we produce innovative work for major banks and insurance companies, offering support that ranges from strategy formulation to new systems development. Our clients include Egg, Nationwide Building Society, Barclays, NatWest Group and Lloyds TSB Group.
- Energy: we work with major companies in the electricity, gas, oil, coal and water sectors. We also work with the major service companies who support these sectors and also with governments across the world in establishing new market structures.
Information technology
Here you can develop your expertise in technologies such as rapid application development in mission-critical systems, enterprise-wide computing, database design, multimedia, networking and emerging technologies. Read more about our IT practices at PA.
People and organizational change
PA is a leading supplier of innovative HR consulting services to both the business and public sectors around the world. Read more about our People and organizational change practice at PA.
Program and project management
Project management consulting: our specialists have worked continuously at the leading edge of the industry for over 40 years. As one of the world's pre-eminent program management practices, we specialize in helping our clients to design and deliver their most challenging and complex business and technical programs, while fulfilling our commitment to innovation, responsiveness and delivery.
Strategy and marketing
Global competition, corporate restructuring and the impact of technology on products and services are forcing many organizations to review their strategies.
PA's strategy consultants deliver excellence in strategy and marketing consulting, providing world class execution and innovative approaches to solving business issues. We help clients to decide where and how to compete, ensuring that they target the most valuable markets and manage their businesses to maximize shareholder value.
Our core strategy consulting services are: managing for shareholder value, corporate strategy, business unit strategy and strategic information management.
Technology and innovation
PA is a leader in a large variety of technology approaches. Drawing on the work of our dedicated international technology center, PA develops award-winning products, automation and manufacturing processes and creates step-change innovation programs resulting in reduced time to market. Read more about technology and innovation - product and process development at PA. PA's wireless consultants offer a range of mobile telecoms consultancy and product development services ranging from 3G and GSM consulting to the development of all-software solutions for 3G basestations. Read more about technology and innovation - wireless technology at PA.
