2008
PA Consulting Group’s Tim Palmer wins Human Resources Outsourcing Association’s (HROA) Individual Innovator Award
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20 November 2008
Tim Palmer, head of PA’s HR sourcing business, was honoured as this year’s Individual Innovator at the HROA Europe Awards. The award was announced on 20 November, during the HRO World Europe Conference in Brussels, following a vote of more than 200 senior executives from over 10 countries.
After the awards presentation, Faye Holland, the European Executive Director of the Association, said: “This award recognises Tim’s position as one of Europe’s leading sourcing consultants and his contribution to HR transformation best practices through his thought leadership and relationships.”
For the past 18 years, Tim has supported many European multinational companies to transform their HR, Finance, Procurement and IT functions. In his role as a board member of HROA Europe and Chair of its Standards and Benchmarking Committee, Tim has led the effort to create a global taxonomy for use by the HRO industry, as well as contributing to the development of other HROA Recommended Practices.
On receiving the award, Tim commented: “Our team at PA has worked hard during 2008 to improve the way that the industry works and we are committed to continue this throughout 2009. I am indebted to my colleagues, our clients and the members of the HROA for voting for this award.”
Tim has previously been named Outsourcing Professional of the Year by the UK's National Outsourcing Association in 2007 and Sourcing Advisor of the Year by HROA in 2006.
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Notes to editors
About HROA Europe Third Annual Awards
This year’s awards honour innovation, recognising the best thought leaders, relationships and overall contributions that have helped expand the horizons for accomplishment in HR Transformation and Outsourcing. Winners were chosen from one of three categories: individual innovators, innovative organisations and innovative contributions in the practice of HR Transformation and Outsourcing.
About HROA
The HROA is the definitive independent organisation for all those who purchase, provide, or participate in HR transformation and outsourcing. The mission of the European Chapter is to educate, promote research, publish, recognize, and provide networking opportunities to foster professionalism in HR transformation and HR outsourcing across Europe. Its membership encompasses over 7,500 HR executives, including the largest 50 buyers, the top 30 providers, the leading sourcing advisors and attorneys, and the best thought leaders in HR Transformation. The HROA brings its diverse membership together to set standards and practices, provide peer networking, and maintain a robust curriculum. For information about the HROA, visit www.hroa.org.
About 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
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- 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.
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