2007

PA outperforms the competition yet again at the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) 2007 Management  Awards - 02 May 2007

PA wins five awards, including Best Public Sector project

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 last night. 

PA won a total of five awards - more than any other firm - with  three top prizes, including the highly prized overall 'Best Public Sector' project, as well as being 'Finalist' in two categories (the runner-up award to the overall winner). PA won:

Overall Best Public Sector Project for PA's work with the Highways Agency

PA helped England's Highways Agency to build a new partnership with the police to reduce road congestion and improve safety. This was the biggest change to traffic management in England for over ten years. Nothing of comparable scale had been achieved anywhere in the world.

Best Change Management Project - also for PA's Highways Agency work

Best Human Resources Project - for PA's work with Jobcentre Plus

Over 350 hours of new e-learning modules were developed in-house in just ten months - the largest e-learning programme ever undertaken in UK government, and one of the largest in Europe. The expected return on investment is over 500%, with net savings estimated at over £12 million.

PA was also a 'Finalist' in the following categories:

International category - for PA's work with Fiat Auto
'The miracle of Turin - maximising performance improvement with a revolutionary approach to cost control'.

Operational Performance category - for PA's work with the Department of Health, National Orthopaedic Project
'No bones about it, PA and NHS reduce orthopaedic waiting list from 57,128 patients to one'.

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. 

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".

Bruce Tindale, Chief Executive Officer of PA Consulting Group, said:

“We are delighted that the MCA has once again recognised the quality of PA’s consulting work and the value delivered to our clients’ organisations.  For the nine years that PA has entered these awards we have enjoyed unprecedented success in the competition. It is a great endorsement for us that the MCA has given our work the independent recognition it deserves. Congratulations to our winning clients and to all the PA consultants involved in delivering this great work.”

Jon Moynihan, Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group, added:

"This year's results again confirm PA's preeminence as the most highly regarded consulting firm in the UK. 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 PA's other winning case studies follows in the notes to editors.

ENDS

For more information, please contact:

Heather Smith PA Consulting Group 123 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9SR United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7312 4975 Fax: +44 20 7312 4639 E-mail: heather.smith@paconsulting.com

Notes to editors

1.  More information on the winning assignments, together with photographs, is available. Interviews with clients can also be arranged.

2.   The Management Consultancies Association (MCA)
The MCA was formed in 1956 to represent the consultancy industry to its clients, the media and government.  Management consultancy is an increasingly important industry for the UK economy with revenues for 2004 estimated at just over £10bn.  MCA members represent around 65% of the UK consulting sector, employ approximately 40,000 consultants and work with the FTSE100 and all government departments. Nine of the top ten UK-based consulting firms (by consulting fee income) are members.

As well as setting and maintaining standards in the industry, the MCA supports its member firms with a range of services including events, publications, interest groups and public relations. The Association also works with its members to attract the top talent into the industry. The MCA provides advice on the selection and use of management consultants and is the main source of data on the UK market.

3.  More information on PA’s other winning case studies in 2007

 Full case studies are available at: http://www.paconsulting.com/news/award_winning_work/#1

4.  PA Consulting Group

At PA Consulting Group, we transform the performance of organisations.

We put together teams from many disciplines and backgrounds to tackle the most complex problems facing our clients, working with leaders and their staff to turn around organisations in the private and public sectors. Clients call on us when they want:

an innovative solution: counter-intuitive thinking and groundbreaking solutions

a highly responsive approach: we listen, and then we act decisively and quickly

delivery of hard results: we get the job done, often trouble-shooting where previous initiatives have failed.

We are an independent, employee-owned, global firm of 3,000 talented individuals, operating from offices across the world, in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. We have won numerous awards for delivering complex and highly innovative assignments, run one of the most successful venture programmes in our industry, have technology development capability that few firms can match, deep expertise across key industries and government, and a unique breadth of skills from strategy to IT to HR to applied technology.

• defence • energy • financial services • government and public services • international development • life sciences and healthcare • manufacturing • postal services • retail • telecommunications • transportation

strategic management • innovation and technology • IT • operational improvement • human resources • complex programme delivery

Delivering business transformation

  |  Previous  |    |  Next  |