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PA in the business news

PA's close partnership with clients enables us to generate insights into business issues that set the news agenda. Here is a selection of recent press coverage on topical business issues:

 

Defined-benefit pensions must be declined — and killed off
The Times, 10 March 2009

 

Putting household appliances on a low-carbon diet
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 04 March 2009

 

Bipolar recession will offer opportunities to those who see them
The Times, 10 February 2009

 

2009 – New Year, New Challenges, New Opportunities
Inside Sourcing, January 2009

 

How effective is your board ? Don’t wait until something really bad happens before you find out
Public - The Guardian's monthly magazine for senior public services professionals, January 2009

 

As Europe cuts, lean Germany may be spared the worst
Financial Times, 30 January 2009

 

PCs will become sensitive - Rob Gear, manager of PA Consulting’s IT Innovation Unit, gazes into the future
Financial Times, 26 January 2009

 

Testing year ahead for IT bosses
Financial Times, 03 December 2008

 

Innovation: Help at hand for bringing clients’ ideas to market
Financial Times, 17 November 2008

 

CFOs peer into a turbulent future: the finance role is assuming a new importance as companies fight to survive
Financial Times, 13 November 2008

 

The curious incident of the financial institutions’ computer systems in the meltdown
Financial Times, 22 October 2008

 

Global network adds a vital string to their bow  
The Times 'Where Women Want to Work Top 50' survey 2008
The Times, 09 October 2008

 

Take your partners, please  
Long-term relationships between IT vendors and clients are more important than seeming to get a bargain
Financial Times, 17 September 2008

  Britain's biggest private companies: Expertise at your service
Daily Telegraph, 18 August 2008
  Judgment call - Is tribal conflict inevitable in mergers and takeovers?
Financial Times, 16 July 2008
  Managing your IT portfolio – one size does not fit all
Financial Times, 19 June 2008
  Avoid being left behind in the identity stakes
Financial Times, 18 June 2008
  Judgment call - Will oil prices force managers to tear up the business model?
Financial Times, 18 June 2008
  Standing shoulder to shoulder
The Guardian 'Public' magazine, 2 June 2008
  Company to watch – PA Consulting
The Guardian ‘Public’ magazine, 06 May 2008
  Gulf sovereign funds should set down principles
Financial Times, 05 May 2008
  Build it and they might come - 'Digital natives' could make the 4G mobile phone network a success
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 24 April 2008
  Fundamentals of military leadership apply in wider world
Financial Times, 10 April 2008
  'I'm a fan of IT, but I’m still a bit cynical' – The boss of PA, Alan Middleton, tells how important it is to keep up with innovation, while retaining traditional forms of communication
Financial Times, 02 April 2008
  Private enterprise needs to prepare to profit from a national identity scheme
The Daily Telegraph, 15 March 2008
  Minority stakes no reason for anxiety
Financial Times, 26 February 2008
  How banks will strive for shareholder backing
Financial Times, 28 December 2007
  Opinion: designing a supply chain ‘from the shelf back’
Financial Times, 10 December 2007
  National identity scheme is about reducing crime
Financial Times, 26 November 2007
  Market bet that turbo-charged a carmaker's performance
Financial Times, 21 November 2007
  IT Going Green: We need to put the green into enterprise
Financial Times, 21 November 2007
  Blame for liquidity crisis does not lie with Northern Rock alone
Financial Times, 20 November 2007
  Business of Consulting: Financial Times special report quotes PA's CEO and five other consultants
Financial Times, 19 November 2007
  Streamlining through trust. Rod Newing hears how proven results and a clear goal are essential to success [PA's work for Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) 'centralised 85 different support functions in 17 offices in only 18 months, reducing overheads by 40% and achieving high user satisfaction.'],
Financial Times, Business of consulting - Special report, 19 November 2007
  Offering expertise on strategy and organisation [how management consultancies aid business turnrounds]
Financial Times, 11 October 2007
  Aegate interviewed in a BBC radio programme on counterfeit medicines in the EU
BBC Radio Four, PM programme, 27 August 2007
  PA featured in a special edition of BBC World Service 'World News' radio programme on Second Life
BBC World Service radio, World News programme, 3 September 2007
  Getting real about business in Second Life - The PA /Sunday Times conference held in Second Life on 24 July 2007
The Sunday Times, 29 July 2007
  From chaos comes the 'eBay for business' - The new order of corporate on-line purchasing
Financial Times, 11 July 2007
  History proves the greatest teacher [success factors for e-procurement systems]
Financial Times, 11 July 2007
  A new chance to raise gilt issuance
Financial Times, 26 June 2007
  Big bonuses match big returns for shareholders [managing for shareholder value]
Financial Times, 20 June 2007
  Judgement call. Does selling a cherished brand have to be a PR nightmare?
Financial Times, 20 June 2007
  ‘New consultancy boss will have a tough act to follow’
Sunday Times, 17 June 2007
  Biscuit-free environment provides food for thought
Financial Times, 27 May 2007
  Judgement call. When do talks with private equity predators cross the line?
Financial Times, 25 April 2007
  Learn to roll with the punches [corporate resilience on the leadership agenda]
Financial Times, 18 April 2007
  Business surgeons must focus on recovery
Financial Times, 19 March 2007
  Leading a Second Life
Consulting Magazine, 1 March 2007
  Blame decline in gap between gilt yields and inflation
Financial Times, 8 March 2007
  A shortage of labour is forcing companies to reorganise
Monday morning/Mandagmorgen, 5 March 2007

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‘A consultancy with a strong tradition of technology prowess’

* That's how the Financial Times describes PA's track record in helping clients to develop innovative new ideas into commercially successful products, in the medical, engineering, pharma, FMCG, food and other sectors > more

Financial institutions’ computer systems in the meltdown

* PA's Ian Berriman advises the Financial Times that the economic crisis was precipitated by a classic case of 'garbage in, garbage out'. There were failures in the processes devised to manage risk, rather than in the systems built to support those processes >more

The war on drugs copycats

* The FT interviews Gary Noon, CEO of Aegate, the PA venture company that offers pharmacists the ability to check drugs at the point of sale to verify they are genuine and safe – that they are not recalled or past their sell-by date >more

Business surgeons must focus on recovery

* 'One way to create value is to stop destroying value'  - that's one of PA's views quoted in this FT feature: 'Business units they say are "strategically important" are invariably not creating any value' >more