Best Management Practice Awards 2006

PA sweeps top awards, including Overall Winner, at 2006 MCA Awards

 
PA has once again been hugely successful at the 2006 Management Consultancies Association Management Awards. 

An independent panel of senior business figures and experts awarded PA six of the 19 top prizes, including the ultimate Platinum prize of Overall Winner for the best consulting assignment of the year. This is the fourth time in the past seven years that we have won the overall winner award (and we didn't even enter for one of those seven!). We also received five Gold Category Winner Awards which makes this our most successful year ever. No other consulting firm was given more than two top awards. This year the MCA received over 140 entries, a record number.

In the eight years that PA has entered the awards we have received an unprecedented 32% of all the top awards (Overall Platinum and Gold Category Winners). This includes winning the Overall Award on four occasions now, and securing 16 Gold Award Category Winners. No other consulting firm in the UK comes even close to matching this record. For all awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze, as well as the top award) since this competition started, PA has won a staggering 29 awards in all classes. The next best performing consultancy has won eight awards. 

This page provides an overview of the PA client work that has won Best Management Practice Awards.

We believe that our track record of success at the Management Consultancies Association awards provides hard evidence that PA is the one firm that really delivers value. Our pursuit of innovation in our client work, responsiveness to the needs of our clients, our independence, and our focus on adding value to our clients' organisations, make us a unique firm in our industry.

To see how PA is so uniquely capable of delivering client value, please click on our 2006 award-winning case study summaries, below, or view our video here:

  PA's prize-winning client work summarised on video (10 mins)

The winning case studies:

	Platinum Award Overall Winner & Gold Award winner - 'International' category
	Gold Award winner - 'Operational performance in the public sector' category
	Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the private sector' category
	Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the public sector' category
	Gold Award winner - 'Technology in the private sector' category

Platinum Award Overall Winner

Gold Award winner - 'International' category

Client: United Energy Distribution Company of the Republic of Georgia
Turning around a company to restore light and life to Georgia

The company has been turned around in two years, helping to improve Georgia’s economy, providing better access to electricity and raising living standards, especially in the poorer regions of the country  > more

Gold Award winner - 'Operational performance in the public sector' category

Client: ACPO and Home Office Police Standards Unit
Denying criminals the use of the roads though 'joined up' application of number-plate recognition technology

ANPR-enabled police officers proved 10 times more effective than conventional officers. During an 18-month pilot ANPR teams made 16,570 arrests, seized 1,480 stolen vehicles, recovered stolen goods worth nearly £1.4 million, and confiscated 329 weapons > more

Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the private sector' category

Client: Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited
Cutting costs by 30% to meet an industry-wide challenge 

Most of Westinghouse Rail Systems' contracts are for safety-critical systems. When key customer Network Rail challenged the industry to reduce costs by 30% over five years, PA helped Westinghouse achieve that target within 12 months > more

Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the public sector' category

Client: HM Revenue & Customs
Transforming the UK's tax department through an innovative 'Lean' manufacturing technique

HM Revenue & Customs urgently needed improved productivity in processing self-assessment tax returns. PA’s trials have been dramatically successful: productivity risen by over 30%, quality improved by over 75%, and time to process a tax return reduced from 36 days to 5. > more

Gold Award winner - 'Technology in the private sector' category

Client: Severn Trent Water
Transforming customer experience and the role of IT at a leading water utility

Severn Trent Water needed to overhaul its contact systems for its eight million household and business customers. PA helped STW to take a unique and innovative approach which not only met objectives in the current, regulated market but also prepared it for possible future deregulation > more

Our Award-winning case studies

Platinum Award Overall Winner & Gold Award winner - 'International' category

Gold Award winner - 'Operational performance in the public sector' category

Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the private sector' category

Gold Award winner - 'Change management in the public sector' category

Gold Award winner - 'Technology in the private sector' category

Download the Awards brochure:'Celebrating current and past successes of the MCA's most prolific winner - PA Consulting Group'

Top-Consultant newsletter's report:'PA Consulting the big winners at 10th annual awards of the UK's Management Consultancies Association'

PA's press release on the 2006 MCA Awards