PA wins four awards for its public sector work
PA Consulting Group, the leading international management, systems and technology consultancy, has once again enjoyed significant success at the annual Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Management Awards, announced in London this week.
The MCA awarded PA four awards in recognition of the quality of its public sector work, including the highly prized overall 'Best Public Sector' project for its work with the Highways Agency.
PA won a total of five awards - more than any other firm - with three top prizes, and 'Finalist' prizes in two categories (the runner up award to the overall winner). All the top prizes and one finalist prize were for public sector work as follows:
Overall Best Public Sector Project for its work with the Highways Agency
PA helped England's Highways Agency to establish a new traffic officer service to reduce road congestion and improve safety. This was the biggest change to traffic management in England for over ten years. No comparable project had been achieved on this scale anywhere in the world.
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Best Change Management Project - Highways Agency
Best Human Resources Project - Jobcentre Plus
Cheaper, faster, better learning for over 50,000 employees in the UK government's largest e-learning programme. The expected return on investment is over 500%, with net savings estimated at over £12 million.
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Finalist in the Operational Performance category - for its work with the Department of Health, National Orthopaedic Project
For decades, long NHS waiting lists have been a bugbear for patients and UK governments. When large backlogs of orthopaedic patients threatened a government initiative to reduce maximum waiting time to six months, the Department of Health called in PA to help - with dramatic results.
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Janet Butler, Traffic Operations Directorate, Highways Agency, said:
"PA's commitment has helped the Highways Agency to deliver what I believe is a world-first in the national Traffic Officer Service that has been the subject of much compliment both nationally and internationally".
Ellen Stoner, Jobcentre Plus Project Manager, said:
"The project is receiving widespread acclaim and is seen as setting the standards for future learning modernisations.'
Jim Knox, head of PA's public sector consulting business, added:
"The MCA's recognition of the quality and value of PA's work with the public sector is enormously important to PA. I am delighted that these great projects with the Highways Agency, Jobcentre Plus and the National Orthopaedic Project have been independently evaluated and recognised through this prestigious award. Congratulations to our winning clients and to all the PA consultants involved in delivering this great work."
The result consolidates PA's position as the outstanding performer at these awards, commonly referred to as 'the Oscars of the consulting industry'. Despite the fact that around 40 different consulting firms compete each year for these awards, PA, in the nine years that it has entered the awards, has won an unprecedented 30% of the top awards. This includes winning the Overall Award on four occasions and securing 19 Gold Category Winners. No other consulting firm in the UK comes close to matching this record.
Every year, the MCA, the industry body for management consulting firms, organises the Management Awards to recognise excellence in client work. An independent panel of senior business figures, journalists and academics, selects the most value-adding, innovative and successful assignments.
Bruce Tindale, Chief Executive Officer, PA Consulting Group, added:
"In a consulting market where clients only use those firms who can genuinely offer transformative help, we see our success in the MCA Management Awards as vindication of our relentless focus on doing great work for clients. Our heartiest congratulations go to the winning and shortlisted clients and PA teams."
More detail on other winning case studies follows in the notes to editors.
