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Award-winning client work

Celebrating current and past successes of the MCA’s most prolific winner - PA Consulting Group

DWP MCA Awards case study

Fiat Auto - ‘The miracle of Turin’ – maximising performance improvement with a revolutionary approach to cost control: MCA Awards 2007

Norwich Union Healthcare - Turning strategy into reality - A strategic transformation to nearly double the business to £1 billion by 2011

The award-winning PA - Recognised for excellence in client work for seven years running

Viewpoint on international development - edition 1

Corporate brochure

Delivering business transformation - An introduction to PA Consulting Group

Environmental and renewable strategy

Highlights of the PA Holdings Limited Report and Accounts 2008

PA ventures - Aegate

Impacts March 2006, Perspectives on healthcare

Impacts, March 2006: Interview with Gary Noon, Aegate's new CEO

Industries

Defence

4D: New perspectives on defence

Acquisition transformation: rising to the challenge - 2008 Defence Acquisition Workshop (Shrivenham 3)

Catalysing acquisition transformation - 2007 Defence Acquisition Workshop (Shrivenham 2)

Creating a winning defence team: Effective partnering between the MOD and industry

Does the bidder's price matter? The long term cost of risk

Joint Strike Fighter program

NECWORKS Issue 1 - Landscapes of NEC and NCW - insights into NEC and NCW from academic, industry and military authors

NECWORKS Issue 2 - Architectures of NEC and NCW - authors examine technology acquisition, operation and evolutions

Our work in US defense

PA: a force for transformation in Defence

Quantum cryptography – No more secrets? No, more secrets

Sustaining a winning defence team

The essentials of the Defence Industrial Strategy – Key themes, challenges and action points from the DIS

Energy consulting

Competition in the German gas market - Survey 2007

Competition in the German gas market is accelerating - Survey 2008

Electricity market software

Energy observer: Asia Pacific edition, October 2004

Energy observer: issue 1

Energy observer: issue 2

Energy observer: issue 3

Energy risk management survey

Environmental and renewable strategy

Financier Worldwide – Energy and utilities sector roundtable

Forecasting the value of renewable energy credits

Getting ahead of the curve - Why IT must align with the upstream lifecycle for effective cost management

Marriages and engagements in the German energy market - Survey 2008

Merchant asset value recovery

Putting household appliances on a low-carbon diet

Redefining 'prudent' regulated energy portfolio management

ReliabilityOne™ and ServiceOne™ Award winners for 2005

Resource procurement in changing markets

Shared services, delivering the promise

Take control of service transition early - The benefits will not deliver themselves

Viewpoint on energy 1: turmoil and transition

Viewpoint on energy 2: shortages, surplus and the search for value

Viewpoint on energy: Meeting the challenges of tomorrow

Viewpoint on industry restructuring

Financial services

Achieving value in the financial services sector

Achieving value in the financial services sector

Agenda Issue 0:7

Benefits Assurance – Turning hard work into hard benefits

Bricks and mortar, copper and fibre - Financial services organisations can avoid hidden pitfalls by incorporating IT infrastructure effectively into their relocation programmes

Bridging the gap – A pragmatic approach to developing the optimal operational risk solution for banks

Building for security: gaining clear benefits from a robust operational risk management framework (series of five papers)

Business continuity - A sleeping tiger in a bear market?

Calypso data management made easy

Calypso implementations for credit derivatives

Challenging channels: Delivering the optimal solution to increase sales and lower distribution costs

Conflict resolution - Building the new, multi-role risk management function

Core banking systems transformation - A fruitful endeavour or a rotten core?

Cost effective risk management - Reducing the cost of risk management by up to 30%

Cracking the Basel code

Cross-asset class operations and technology

Defending the corporate banking franchise: The new economics of cash management

Delivering maximum value from ultra high net worth clients

Delivering regulatory compliance

Derivative workflow optimization

Direct debit - friend or foe?

Driving innovation in financial services- Bulding the growth engine

EBPP - time to wise up: a central utility is essential for successful electronic bill presentment and payment services, but how will it come

Embedded software in automotive products. Tackling the complexities of in-car embedded systems

Establishing an efficient self-service banking platform: Improved network efficiency can be achieved without sacrificing customer demands…though this requires a radical re-think of SSB management

European bank shareholders are missing out on cross-border synergy benefits

Expecting the expected?: Accurate calculation of expected losses within the retail banking book

Faster, smarter, cheaper - Making the case for implementing an enterprise-wide risk management solution

Field adjustment variance control - Eliminating the significant leakage in auto physical damage claims adjusting

From the jaws of defeat - Optimizing the compliance response for financial services businesses

Get stronger - 'lean' on your people - a lean approach can deliver immediate results as well as build capability for long-term improvement

Get stronger - 'Lean' on your people - Financial services organisations can transform their operations by applying Lean approaches

Getting out of the cost box – PA's international survey on attitudes towards IT in business 2003/04

How can banks restore confidence in the credit markets?

Improving insurance marketing decisions - Using dynamic modeling to maximize the value from marketing decisions

Improving trade processing capacity and efficiency: A rigorous, quantitative approach

Innovation, cost and control in financial engineering: Managing over-the-counter derivative products across the lifecycle

Insurance institutions in Germany: more success by restructuring

Intranet - an opportunity to transform the organization: Enabling radical change in financial services

It’s legal Jim, but not as we know it ! Delivering cost effective legal services in investment banking

Keeping it simple - Building customer trust by reducing the complexity of financial services

LCH.Clearnet - Achieving world class project delivery for the City of London's safety net

Management by alibi: the pathology of German banking

Market proliferation - a paradox of choice?

MiFID - Don't lose concentration when playing to win

MiFID - Playing to win: your move

Mind the gap: The challenges of closing the value gap in Web-based cash management

MIS-managing risk? Existing technology can enable radical improvements to banks' risk reporting

Much ado about nothing? Operational risk survey findings 2003

Mutually assured destruction? Profound differences exist in the profitability levels of national banking sectors: can management make a difference?

Navigating complexity: Putting complexity thinking into practice

Norwich Union Healthcare - Turning strategy into reality - A strategic transformation to nearly double the business to £1 billion by 2011

Opportunity knocks with SOx - Making best use of the delayed Sarbanes-Oxley implementation deadline

Optimizing channel strategy - Using system dynamics methodology to determine product distribution strategy

PA Perspective on European Insurance - edition 1 2008

PA perspective on European insurance - edition 2, 2007

PA Perspective on European Insurance - Issue 1 2007

PA perspective on insurance

PA perspective on insurance - detailed summary

PA perspective on insurance - feature article

Painting by numbers - A framework for next-generation operational risk modeling

PA's perspective on European banking - Edition 1, 2009

Payments - clearing and settlements: Delivering service excellence in the financial services sector

Payments, profits and the impact of SEPA. How will the Single Euro Payments Area affect the profitability of European banks?

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 1, 2006

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 2

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 2, 2006

Power to the people! Optimizing performance across branch networks

Profit from a severe profit squeeze - New strategies for motor insurers coping with customers who increasingly play the field

Reaping the benefits of the software you bought

Reducing auto total loss claim expense - Using sophisticated tools and processes to improve TL decision making

Refrigerators and Eskimos: A successful depolarization strategy will integrate supply and demand

Relationship counselling for banks and corporates

Revitalizing branch banking - Driving evolution by challenging traditional branch banking paradigms

Risk based management in the banking sector; PA global survey 2001

Risk management in financial services - A PA center of excellence

Risk-based management in the banking sector – PA global survey results 2004

Risky conduct - Is your risk analytics function performing 100%?

Shared services, delivering the promise

Strategies for attracting and retaining customers

Tackling auto insurance bodily injury liability and no-fault claims leakage - Advanced predictive modeling solutions

Tellers or sellers? Just how ‘retail’ should retail financial services outlets be?

The components of Corporate Performance Management - part I

The components of Corporate Performance Management - part II

The end of the golden age: rising to the challenge

The myth of enterprise-wide risk management: Capturing the value from EWRM

The OpRisk 'power grid': Which operational risk system is the best match with your bank's needs?

The seven deadly sins of EWRM: Successfully delivering an enterprise-wide risk management framework

The three Cs of wealth management: Making the most out of investments in wealth management services

The wheel of fortune: Successful management of operational risks in the life assurance sector

Unleashing the internet: follow the customer

Viewpoint on industry restructuring

Voluntary liquidity: unlocking working capital in international trade

Ways to profitability for banks in Germany

Weighing the dragon: Operational risk management

What SEPA really means to your organisation

What the customer saw - How a fresh perspective on service delivery can deliver real customer satisfaction

Where is the weakest link in mortgage processing? Outsourcing - just a matter of time

Where next for the freedom fighters? Relationship banking is dying; it's time to liberate your customers

Wholesale financial markets: Delivering service excellence in the financial services sector

Win-win with profits: Leading the industry and regulators (insurance)

Government services consulting

333: "Can we help you ?" Increasing public satisfaction through improved police call handling

A European electronic toll service: Practical reality or misplaced hope?

A_new_social_deal

Achieving radical reform in the NHS by reorganising service delivery around the patient journey

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

Aiming high in the NHS - Achieving breakthrough performance

Aligning the NHS to deliver primary care

All for one and one for all

Beyond-intuition-and-systems

Board Development Partnership - PA Consulting Group-led consortium supporting PCT Boards

Capturing the Power of Engagement in DWP

Delivering performance improvement from the centre of government

Disability and Carers Service (DCS) Carer’s Allowance Unit - A better service for some of this country’s neediest citizens

Driving crime down - denying criminals the use of the road

Drowning_in_Data

DWP MCA Awards case study

Effective portfolio management

Engaging criminality: denying criminals the use of the roads

Expectation, Expectation, Expectation: PA's expertise in the higher education sector

Field forces: a service-orientated approach to programme management

If you build it will they come

Illuminate - local partnership, local responsibility - Making the most of local partnerships

Illuminate issue 1

Illuminate: Protecting the Public: do they need to feel protected?

Inspiration, excellence and achievement - Helping universities manage for sustainable academic excellence

Integrating health and local government

Keeping our universities special - Surviving and thriving in a turbulent world

Keeping our universities special - Surviving and thriving in a turbulent world

Making Commissioning work

Making government citizen centric

Making_the_PFI_more_public

Management Information System strategy - The Philosopher’s Stone of joined-up Government?

Modernising Government through collaborative partnerships - Paper 1: Maximising the value of the private sector through Public/Private Partnerships

Modernising Government through collaborative partnerships - Paper 2: PPP and the 'enabling state' - the dynamic for continuous improvement of public service

Money_makes_the_world_go_round

OGC Gateway Reviews - Opportunity, not obstacle

PA perspective on Welfare Reform

Police Standards Unit - Evaluation of Automatic Number Plate Recognition 2006/2007

Police Standards Unit - Thematic review of the use of automatic number plate recognition within police forces

Portfolio_Management

Prison Service: Review of the Prisoner Escort and Custody Services

Realising the benefits of Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Releasing_the_treasure

Reversing the seams of the inside-out organisations

Shared services, delivering the promise

Sheffield City Council: From high performer

Strategy briefing for universities No. 3 - Strategy as business as usual - How universities can better integrate strategic ambitions into business as usual

Strategy briefing for universities No.4 - Creating a One University service Culture - How universities can overcome the tensions between academic delivery and service management

Strategy briefing for universities No.5 - Aligning behaviours with ambitions - How universities can foster supportive cultures for 21st century strategies

Strategy briefing for universities: No.1 - Excellence is not enough - How to develop better management strategies for sustaining academic excellence

Strategy briefing for universities: No.2 University strategies from the outside-in - Why and how universities should learn to see themselves from an external perspective

Successful delivery in a devolved public sector

Survival of the fittest - A survey on the leadership of change in higher education

Sustainable Transport in the 21st Century

SwitchOn - Technology in public services

SwitchOn - Technology in Public Services

TfL - working with PA

The accountability dilemma - reconciling public expectations and private delivery

The national safety camera programme: Three-year evaluation report (June 2004)

The people will decide - Managing government programmes

Transforming public services - An overview of PA's government services

Viewpoint on Manufacturing

Waste_Watchers

Health sector

A better approach to global change control for pharmaceutical companies

A new model for biotech - do biotechs need a new business model?

Achieving radical reform in the NHS by reorganising service delivery around the patient journey

Advancing medicine distribution now

Affect compliance dynamics to achieve results Impacts 4

Aiming high in the NHS - Achieving breakthrough performance

Aligning the NHS to deliver primary care

AMFA, Affordable Medicines for Africa

An innovative diagnosis

Applying genomic technologies in clinical diagnostics

Asian vendors and medical devices

Auto injectors technology advances

Automatic injection devices : developments and future trends

Board Development Partnership - PA Consulting Group-led consortium supporting PCT Boards

Building today’s R&D for tomorrow’s market

Burden of diabetes demands integrated approaches to innovation: next-generation tools

cGMP for the 21st Century - take advantage of the changing regulatory climate

Characterisation of functional coatings

Combined efforts - realizing the potential of combination products

Compliance and effectiveness - two sides of the marketing coin

Compliant process development Impacts 4

Cost reduction in medical devices throughout the life cycle Impacts 5

Creating winning pharmaceutical partnerships in the 21st century

CRM - PA's survey on CRM in the pharmaceutical industry (2000)

Delivering a patient-centred NHS - summary of a survey of Chief Executives in the UK National Health Service

Designing the bottom line [The importance of product design for generating brand equity]

Don't stop the runaway train - harness its energy to improve the odds of making a medical breakthrough

Drug device combination products

Effective delivery of new healthcare products and services

Effective portfolio management - outlining the key elements of an effective portfolio management program

Ensuring regulatory compliance for competitive advantage

Ergonomics - sustaining product success through world-class ergonomics

EU Commission Patient rights in cross border healthcare

European pharmaceutical pricing - optimising launch sequence to maximise product value

Fast incremental supply chain improvement for the health sector

Gaining competitive advantage for a US sales organisation

Give your CAPA system a performance boost Impacts 5

Global medical diagnostics firm - Overcoming failure of the quality system following an FDA 483

Going with the flow - the new design of flow meter developed by PA that could halve production costs

Growth opportunities for medium pharma firms

Health information exchange USA

Human vision models slash development time for new contact lens technologies

Impacts 14: Supply chain management and outsourcing

Impacts 13: Bringing new drugs to market - at last

Impacts 7 – PA's Perspectives on Healthcare

Impacts Autumn 2004

Impacts March 2006, Perspectives on healthcare

Impacts March 2007

Impacts September 2006

Impacts Spring 2005

Impacts Winter 2003

Impacts, March 2006: Patient directed healthcare

Impacts, March 2006: Implementing risk-based programme management

Impacts, March 2006: Interview with Gary Noon, Aegate's new CEO

Impacts, March 2006: Meeting the threat of an avian flu pandemic - how simulation models point to bold action

Impacts, March 2006: When two heads are better than one: the role of the COO R&D

Improving discovery by learning to make better decisions - PA's ARBITER approach

Innovation at DePuy, Breakout 5

Innovative drug delivery - PA's capabilities and track record in developing innovative drug delivery technologies for clients

Integrating personal health and electronic medical records Impacts 4

Joined up thinking - realising the benefits of scale from M&As in pharma

Keep your powder dry - moisture in dry powder inhalers

Learning to improve the decision making process in research

Leveraging compliance to accelerate programs

Manufacturing compliance - an emerging topic in life science companies' boardrooms

Mass serialisation

Mid-sized pharma health check

NHS CFH and PA making telehealth a reality

No bones about it - Reducing NHS waiting lists Impacts 5

On the mend ways to improve performance fron Australia Impacts 4

Operational effectiveness - achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness in R&D operations

Owning the risk of pharmaceutical labelling

Parenteral delivery is here to stay

PA's consulting services to life science companies

PA's track record in the development of specialised injection systems

Pharma sales training in a customer-centric world

Portfolio management seminar - executive summary

Proactive compliance in pharmaceuticals marketing

Product and process engineering - delivering innovative healthcare technology

Putting the customer first: new models for pharmaceutical selling

Radically accelerating R&D to combat a biothreat

Raising R and D productivity - Focusing on what you are good at

Re-establishing control over your programme Impacts 4

Risk in the pharmaceutical supply chain – for suppliers and consumers

Shared services, delivering the promise

Simulating an Avian Flu pandemic

Sourcing for business success in the pharmaceutical industry

Sourcing Why Gamble

Statement of interest - delivering value from new technologies

Strategies to improve R&D productivity

Successful delivery in a devolved public sector

The big squeeze - the pharmaceutical industry needs radical change if it is to preserve its postion and ultimately thrive

The future for parenteral delivery - the answer is to develop better, more advanced auto-injectors

The Genome Effect Breakout 5

The independent sector is key to the long term survival of the NHS

The new building blocks for blockbusters - single drugs for single indications are hard to find

The potential of flexible manufacturing techniques

The strategic impact of transaction costs

Thin client medical devices

Transforming development productivity through integrated automation

Vision assisted cell inspection

What will the healthcare supply chain look like in 2015?

Wireless systems in healthcare

International development

A new approach to managing uncertainty in CES

CES in the travel and tourism industry: Improving competitiveness by converting challenges into opportunities

Delivering benefits to people and communities - An introduction to PA's international development services

Delivering CES along with shareholder value

Electric utilities – A bedrock industry facing an expanded set of responsibilities and opportunities

Green IT – putting IT at the forefront of CES

Investing in Economic Development and the Environment: Does Water Matter?

Practical solution: how to align your CES strategy with your business strategy

Reality bites: How the quest for sustainable emission controls is changing the global manufacturing landscape

Viewpoint on Corporate Environmental Sustainability

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 1 - Municipal environment management systems: saving costs and promoting sustainable development in the developing world's urban areas

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 2 - Crafting private sector participation strategies in water management: finding the right paradigm

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 3 - Building momentum for accounting reform: developing the entrepreneurial skills of local professionals

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 4 - Sound governance: developing an institutional framework capable of overcoming political intervention in Latin American power markets

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 5 - Creating sustainable local energy systems: stimulating decentralization of heat supply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 6 - Creating regional benefits through co-operation: keys to linking Central Asia and Afghanistan energy and water resources

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 7 - Scaling up AIDS treatment programs in developing countries: where is the private sector?

Viewpoint on International Development: Chapter 8 - Elections programming in fragile, post-conflict environments

Life sciences

A better approach to global change control for pharmaceutical companies

A new model for biotech - do biotechs need a new business model?

Advancing medicine distribution now

Affect compliance dynamics to achieve results Impacts 4

Aiming high in the NHS - Achieving breakthrough performance

AMFA, Affordable Medicines for Africa

An African solution to an African problem - PA supporting Affordable Medicines for Africa

An innovative diagnosis

Applying genomic technologies in clinical diagnostics

Asian vendors and medical devices

Automatic injection devices : developments and future trends

Board Development Partnership - PA Consulting Group-led consortium supporting PCT Boards

Burden of diabetes demands integrated approaches to innovation: next-generation tools

Characterisation of functional coatings

Combined efforts - realizing the potential of combination products

Compliance and effectiveness - two sides of the marketing coin

Compliance is not a tax on the business, it is an essential enabler

Compliant process development Impacts 4

Cost reduction in medical devices throughout the life cycle Impacts 5

Creating winning pharmaceutical partnerships in the 21st century

CRM - PA's survey on CRM in the pharmaceutical industry (2000)

Delivering a patient-centred NHS - summary of a survey of Chief Executives in the UK National Health Service

Don't stop the runaway train - harness its energy to improve the odds of making a medical breakthrough

Drug device combination products

Effective delivery of new healthcare products and services

Effective portfolio management - outlining the key elements of an effective portfolio management program

Ensuring regulatory compliance for competitive advantage

EU Commission Patient rights in cross border healthcare

European pharmaceutical pricing - optimising launch sequence to maximise product value

Fast incremental supply chain improvement for the health sector

Gaining competitive advantage for a US sales organisation

Give your CAPA system a performance boost Impacts 5

Global medical diagnostics firm - Overcoming failure of the quality system following an FDA 483

Global pharmaceutical company - Delivering enhanced value in a cost constrained and regulated environment

Growth opportunities for medium pharma firms

Health information exchange USA

Human vision models slash development time for new contact lens technologies

Impacts 14: Supply chain management and outsourcing

Impacts 13: Bringing new drugs to market - at last

Impacts 7 – PA's Perspectives on Healthcare

Impacts Autumn 2004

Impacts Autumn 2005

Impacts March 2006, Perspectives on healthcare

Impacts March 2007

Impacts September 2006

Impacts Spring 2005

Impacts Winter 2003

Impacts, March 2006: Patient directed healthcare

Impacts, March 2006: Implementing risk-based programme management

Impacts, March 2006: Interview with Gary Noon, Aegate's new CEO

Impacts, March 2006: Meeting the threat of an avian flu pandemic - how simulation models point to bold action

Impacts, March 2006: When two heads are better than one: the role of the COO R&D

Improving discovery by learning to make better decisions - PA's ARBITER approach

Integrating personal health and electronic medical records Impacts 4

Joined up thinking - realising the benefits of scale from M&As in pharma

Learning to improve the decision making process in research

Leveraging compliance to accelerate programs

Manufacturing compliance - an emerging topic in life science companies' boardrooms

Mass serialisation

Mid-sized pharma health check

NHS CFH and PA making telehealth a reality

No bones about it - Reducing NHS waiting lists Impacts 5

On the mend ways to improve performance fron Australia Impacts 4

Operational effectiveness - achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness in R&D operations

Owning the risk of pharmaceutical labelling

Parenteral delivery is here to stay

PA's consulting services to life science companies

PA's track record in the development of specialised injection systems

Pharma sales training in a customer-centric world

Portfolio management seminar - executive summary

Proactive compliance in pharmaceuticals marketing

Putting the customer first

Putting the customer first: new models for pharmaceutical selling

Radically accelerating R&D to combat a biothreat

Raising R and D productivity - Focusing on what you are good at

Re-establishing control over your programme Impacts 4

Risk in the pharmaceutical supply chain – for suppliers and consumers

Shared services, delivering the promise

Simulating an Avian Flu pandemic

Sourcing for business success in the pharmaceutical industry

Sourcing Why Gamble

Statement of interest - delivering value from new technologies

Strategies to improve R&D productivity

The big squeeze - the pharmaceutical industry needs radical change if it is to preserve its postion and ultimately thrive

The future for parenteral delivery - the answer is to develop better, more advanced auto-injectors

The Genome Effect Breakout 5

The independent sector is key to the long term survival of the NHS

The new building blocks for blockbusters - single drugs for single indications are hard to find

The strategic impact of transaction costs

Thin client medical devices

Vision assisted cell inspection

What will the healthcare supply chain look like in 2015?

Wireless systems in healthcare

Manufacturing

After the baby boom: sustaining growth in the world's largest markets

Avoiding the RFID money pit - Companies need to take a fundamentally different view of RFID trials if they are to realize value

Breakthrough results for complex engineering projects - Virtual studios re-invent the project office

Building insurance systems capability for this millennium

Claims management: scripting the customer experience

Controlling claims: putting the genie back in the bottle

Cut costs today and still innovate tomorrow

Delivering business innovation in the manufacturing sector - The most innovative companies in their sectors earn double the shareholder returns

Driving innovation in insurance

Enhancing shareholder value by strategically managing collaboration

Ergonomics - sustaining product success through world-class ergonomics

European brokers: when bigger is better

Fiat Auto - ‘The miracle of Turin’ – maximising performance improvement with a revolutionary approach to cost control: MCA Awards 2007

Fine tuning: the changing mechanics of the sourcing decision

Flexible manufacturing Breakout 5

High stakes, high growth: what does it take to win the Nordic healthcare insurance market?

Identifying the challenges posed by the growth of low cost economies

Innovating at the edge of chaos

Innovation - Cut costs today, and still innovate tomorrow

Innovation excellence in an agile world. Doubling engineering effectiveness to enhance product development

Insurance-linked securities: get ready

Lean and IT - PA's survey on the relationship between Lean and IT

Licence to reduce costs - Product optimization with best practice

Making experience an opportunity for change

Making the impossible possible - Building a high performance supply chain

Managing complexity

Migration strategy - Changing capabilities in low-cost economies are constantly creating new opportunities for cost reduction and revenue growth

PA survey - Transforming procurement. Leading organisations have realised only a quarter of the potential benefits from best practice procurement

Pan-European pensions: time to act?

Playing by the rules: do we like our clients?

Price comparision sites: if you can't beat them, join them

Product optimization - Radical value growth through product redesign and value chain improvement

Profit up – cost down: product optimization to reduce product costs by 25%

RFID: Two emerging challenges to progress: Comment from the Financial Times and PA Consulting Group

Solvency II: beware the sting in the tail

Supply chain agility is the key to winning new business

Supply chain improvement

Supply chain takes pole position

Survey: Removing the barriers to successful purchasing initiatives; a PA/CIPS research study 2003

Survival in economic turmoil - strategies and actions for European manufacturing industry

Sustaining competitive advantage by sourcing from the optimal location

Sustaining profit improvement by managing the 'claims cycle'

Technology foresighting - turning technology trends to commercial advantage

The end of the golden age: rising to the challenge

The potential of flexible manufacturing techniques

The RFID revolution has started and it will impact your business. Should you act or react?

The Towergate approach

The yellow brick road to low-cost economies? Migration remains a challenge

Three routes to successful supply chain improvement

Under cyber attack

Unleashing the Internet: Follow the customer

Using Formula 1 cost engineering to win the product design race

Viable offshore manufacturing

Viewpoint on manufacturing - Product optimisation - Making it cheaper and better

Viewpoint on manufacturing - Supply chain takes pole position

Which way now? Dealing with IT costs in closed life and pension books

Postal industry consulting

2006 - a year of promise

Driving value from global account management

PA's Global Postal Industry Group - Providing insight and experience

Postal seminar: customers' needs in the 21st century

Postal seminar: developing services for recipients of mail

Postal seminar: innovation in an access model

Postal seminar: sustaining the long-term future of direct mail (seminar presentation)

Postal seminar: using technology to increase service flexibility (seminar presentation)

Viewpoint on the postal market: can we create a bright future ?

Professional services

A major US wireless operator- Transforming network operations to improve service reliability and organizational agility

A major wireless operator- achieving network reliability through organizational transformation

Benchmarking technology in the global economy - legal IT survey results 2003

Identifying organizational savings with a process-driven framework

Identifying significant savings with a process-driven network

Imagine a world where you consistently reaslise your corporate goals

Major US cable operator- Identifying significant savings with a process-driven framework

Major wireless operator- A 100% productivity gain gives a major US wireless operator a competitive edge

Major wireless operator- Customer-centric disaster recovery plan improves business performance

Major wireless operator- Reorganized product development teams improve time to market.

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

Shared services, delivering the promise

Understanding a project's size- An important step in improving new product development

Retail

RFID: Two emerging challenges to progress: Comment from the Financial Times and PA Consulting Group

Telecoms consulting

3G basestation simulation - picocellular and microcellular base stations require a new breed of baseband architectures

3G essential intellectual property - signs of hope

3G Essential patents

4G battle looms in Europe at 2.6GHz

A major US wireless operator- Transforming network operations to improve service reliability and organizational agility

A major wireless operator- achieving network reliability through organizational transformation

Battle for broadband access

Benchmarking outsourced telecoms contracts - a fair deal for all

Complexity versus cost - base station manufacturers must work with highly demanding applications of real-time electronics and software, and yet, at the same time, they are under pressure to keep prices down

Convergence means choice

Critical decisions - this article discusses the likelihood that there will be increasing technical divergence between mobile operators

Dead zones - dead zones in your 3G network can disappoint your users and reduce revenue

Delivering breakthrough performance for communications and media companies

Delivering value from network sourcing

Divide and conquer - Should telecommunications operators be IT or media companies? - Extract from Viewpoint on telecommunications

Divide and conquer- Should fixed telecommunications operators be IT or media companies?

Divide_Conquer

Femtocell access points can deliver the right price for a low volume product

Freeing yourself from the wireless cage - how to achieve efficient wireless connectivity

Growing Siemens patent licensing programme

GSM on railways - PA's track record in GSM-R and rail networks

How to predict the next bandwidth shortage and make money from it

Identifying organizational savings with a process-driven framework

Identifying significant savings with a process-driven network

Major US cable operator- Identifying significant savings with a process-driven framework

Major wireless operator- A 100% productivity gain gives a major US wireless operator a competitive edge

Major wireless operator- Customer-centric disaster recovery plan improves business performance

Major wireless operator- Managing complex 'smart-phone' services to improve customer satisfaction and achieve profitable growth

Missing the outsourcing trick - how can mobile operators respond to the ever-increasing pressure to cut costs without compromising the future viability of their business?

Mobile data is more about data than mobile. Building the business case for mobile virtual network operators to offer mobile data services

Mobile service arriving at

Mobile WiMAX

Morgan Stanley report on wireless vendor equipment revenues, based on PA Consulting research into wireless vendor revenues worldwide (2003/4)

Motorola : Pipping competitors to the UMTS post with PA testing technology

Network outsourcing - demystifying the risks to reap the rewards

Network refarming - realising the benefits

Network sharing - Is your marriage made in heaven

Next generation networks

Next Generation Telecos- Not just a new network

Next-generation mobile data for utilities - does more bandwidth mean more value?

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

On Wireless 1

On Wireless 10

On Wireless 11

On Wireless 12

On Wireless 12

On Wireless 2

On Wireless 3

On Wireless 4

On Wireless 5

On Wireless 6

On Wireless 7

On Wireless 8

On Wireless 9

PA's all-software microcell 3G basestation - UMTS microcell base station product breakthrough

Patent world -PA's Wireless IPR newsletter

Preparing for m-commerce - learning lessons from the dotcom experience

Process adaptability in the face of industry evolution

Qualcomm view of IPR and Innovation

Realising the promise of WiMAX - an operator's perspective

Realising the promise of WiMAX - Key industry spokespeople's viewpoints

Shared services, delivering the promise

Sourcing telecoms services - getting the right deals for legacy and next generation IP services

Three steps to mobile heaven - understanding value drivers to boost profitability

Understanding a project's size- An important step in improving new product development

Viewpoint on industry restructuring

Viewpoint on telecommunications - Survival of the fittest

What's hot? - WLANs and 3G services should be able to work together

Wimax- It's time to show the business case works

WiMAX manufacturers need to understand the costs of IPR

WiMAX vs 3G?

Wireless broadband video

Wireless in Transport brochure

work Sharing - is your marriage made in heaven

Transportation

Airbus Industrie - Riding the market cycles to deliver billion dollar savings

Department for Transport - Developing a strategic approach to road-user charging

Major wireless operator- Reorganized product development teams improve time to market.

Northern Ireland economy burns £250 million a year in roads 'slow lane'

PA Perspective on Transport - issue 2

PA Perspective on Transport - Our new newsletter provides expert assessment and a forum for contributions on transportation issues and technologies

PA's Global Sea Ports Capability

PA's Rail Industry Group - Meeting the demands of a rapidly moving industry - our track record

Police Standards Unit - Thematic review of the use of automatic number plate recognition within police forces

TfL - working with PA

Viewpoint on industry restructuring

Water

Investing in Economic Development and the Environment: Does Water Matter?

The economics of 'managed competitions' to operate water utilities

Will private capital be more efficient than public capital in meeting the water and wastewater utility needs of the next decade?

Insights

Capturing customer value

Building the 'customer web' - harnessing technology to deliver profitable customer relationships

Capturing customer value - Asia Pacific survey

Customer focus - accelerating success

Customer preference modeling - understanding what will deliver value to customers and to the organization

Data warehouses - a business-driven approach

Delivering rapid improvements in customer service - a layered systems architecture to support CRM

The strategy and rationale for Customer Relationship Management

Walking the razor's edge - gaining competitive advantage from CRM requires innovation and the right technology solution

EWRM

Bridging the gap – A pragmatic approach to developing the optimal operational risk solution for banks

Building for security: gaining clear benefits from a robust operational risk management framework (series of five papers)

Conflict resolution - Building the new, multi-role risk management function

Cost effective risk management - Reducing the cost of risk management by up to 30%

Energy risk management survey

Faster, smarter, cheaper - Making the case for implementing an enterprise-wide risk management solution

From the jaws of defeat - Optimizing the compliance response for financial services businesses

MIS-managing risk? Existing technology can enable radical improvements to banks' risk reporting

Much ado about nothing? Operational risk survey findings 2003

Opportunity knocks with SOx - Making best use of the delayed Sarbanes-Oxley implementation deadline

Painting by numbers - A framework for next-generation operational risk modeling

The myth of enterprise-wide risk management: Capturing the value from EWRM

The seven deadly sins of EWRM: Successfully delivering an enterprise-wide risk management framework

HR transformation

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Managing complex projects

Environmental and renewable strategy

Navigating complexity: Putting complexity thinking into practice

Taking hold of the reins - Salvaging business value from complex IT programs

Viewpoint: A practical guide to managing complexity

Managing for shareholder value

Managing for Shareholder Value in difficult times

Strategy for cost reduction

Viewpoint on managing for shareholder value

Mergers and acquisitions

Creating long-term value through mergers and acquisitions

Creating shareholder value from acquisition integration

Deutsche Bank Group - Maximising business benefit from integrating London infrastructure

Joint ventures: Make it so you can break it - Managing the downside risk of joint ventures

Realising the value of acquisitions

Mobility - making 3G happen faster

3G basestation simulation - picocellular and microcellular base stations require a new breed of baseband architectures

3G essential intellectual property - signs of hope

3G Essential patents

Complexity versus cost - base station manufacturers must work with highly demanding applications of real-time electronics and software, and yet, at the same time, they are under pressure to keep prices down

Critical decisions - this article discusses the likelihood that there will be increasing technical divergence between mobile operators

Dead zones - dead zones in your 3G network can disappoint your users and reduce revenue

Growing Siemens patent licensing programme

GSM on railways - PA's track record in GSM-R and rail networks

Major wireless operator- Managing complex 'smart-phone' services to improve customer satisfaction and achieve profitable growth

Missing the outsourcing trick - how can mobile operators respond to the ever-increasing pressure to cut costs without compromising the future viability of their business?

Motorola : Pipping competitors to the UMTS post with PA testing technology

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

On Wireless 1

On Wireless 10

On Wireless 2

On Wireless 3

On Wireless 4

On Wireless 5

On Wireless 6

On Wireless 7

On Wireless 8

On Wireless 9

PA's all-software microcell 3G basestation - UMTS microcell base station product breakthrough

What's hot? - WLANs and 3G services should be able to work together

Wireless in Transport brochure

Shared services

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Finance 'Rules of thumb': Finance has changed - how do you measure up?

HR 'Rules of thumb': HR has changed - how do you measure up?

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Shared services: a new collaborative approach

Sourcing for value

Are you hitting the right notes with your service provider relationship?

Cut procurement time and risk with an effective data room

Delivering value from network sourcing

Gaining control – making outsourcing contracts work for both parties

Hitting the right notes - getting the best result from your service provider

Insourcing - Taking IT back home

Optimising IT multi-sourcing

Outsourcing in the pharmaceutical industry – how to do it right

Outsourcing: mindset switch - moving from cost control to managing for flexibility and benefits realisation

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Understanding misunderstanding - Investing in successful outsourcing relationships [IT outsourcing survey 2006]

Viewpoint on Sourcing for value

Where is the weakest link in mortgage processing? Outsourcing - just a matter of time

Supply chain

Capturing the Power of Engagement in DWP

Customer-driven supply chain - myth or reality? - Results from PA's survey in co-operation with Supply Chain Standard

Enhancing shareholder value by strategically managing collaboration

Impacts 14: Supply chain management and outsourcing

Impacts 13: Bringing new drugs to market - at last

Making the impossible possible - Building a high performance supply chain

Making the impossible possible. Building a high performance supply chain

PA survey - Transforming procurement. Leading organisations have realised only a quarter of the potential benefits from best practice procurement

RFID: Two emerging challenges to progress: Comment from the Financial Times and PA Consulting Group

Supply chain agility is the key to winning new business

Supply chain modelling

Supply chain takes pole position

Survey: Removing the barriers to successful purchasing initiatives; a PA/CIPS research study 2003

The RFID revolution has started and it will impact your business. Should you act or react?

Three routes to successful supply chain improvement

What will the healthcare supply chain look like in 2015?

Zanzibar – More than a marketplace - An eProcurement solution for public sector organisations

Zanzibar guide: Ten key facts and eProcurement terminology

Zanzibar White Paper on the EU eInvoicing Directive

Locations

Australia

Inspiration, excellence and achievement - Helping universities manage for sustainable academic excellence

Strategy briefing for universities No. 3 - Strategy as business as usual - How universities can better integrate strategic ambitions into business as usual

Strategy briefing for universities No.4 - Creating a One University service Culture - How universities can overcome the tensions between academic delivery and service management

Strategy briefing for universities No.5 - Aligning behaviours with ambitions - How universities can foster supportive cultures for 21st century strategies

Strategy briefing for universities: No.1 - Excellence is not enough - How to develop better management strategies for sustaining academic excellence

Strategy briefing for universities: No.2 University strategies from the outside-in - Why and how universities should learn to see themselves from an external perspective

Denmark

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Shared services: a new collaborative approach

Success with IT driven transformations - Experiences from Post Danmark, MAN Diesel, and Scandinavian Tobacco Company

Germany

Change management - more than salt in the soup - 2008 survey

Competition in the German gas market - Survey 2007

Competition in the German gas market is accelerating - Survey 2008

Embedded software in automotive products. Tackling the complexities of in-car embedded systems

Excellent products and efficient processes

Innovations for change - Maintaining and extending competitive advantage in Germany

Insurance institutions in Germany: more success by restructuring

Marketing and Shareholder Value - a success story?

Marriages and engagements in the German energy market - Survey 2008

Project management: Costs and benefits - new survey by PA Consulting Group with the German Association for Project Management

Results of the PA Quick Survey 'Impact of the current recession on IT'

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Shifting gears in the automotive industry - PA Consulting Group's expertise in the automotive industry

Silver bullet abroad? Success factors for relocating production sites

The European Way - Competitive strategies to outperform Toyota in the next decade

Tough reality - the importance of 'soft' factors is an underestimated dimension in projects

Ways to profitability for banks in Germany

Ireland

Shared services, delivering the promise

Netherlands

Case study: Ministry of Economic Affairs - Separation technology - from roadmap to creating a top institute

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

HR shared service centres: higher service levels at lower costs

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Norway

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 1, 2006

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 2

Perspective on Nordic financial services - issue 2, 2006

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Sweden

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services optimisation

Shared services, delivering the promise

Shared services: a new collaborative approach

Services

Business operations consulting

Avoiding the RFID money pit - Companies need to take a fundamentally different view of RFID trials if they are to realize value

Driving up performance, driving down cost

Environmental and renewable strategy

Extracting value from business models

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Finance 'Rules of thumb': Finance has changed - how do you measure up?

Financial management transformation - Reshaping the finance function as a strategic value partner

Heading into the red? A study of cost management in UK-listed companies

HR 'Rules of thumb': HR has changed - how do you measure up?

Major US cable operator- Identifying significant savings with a process-driven framework

Physical operations in a wired world

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services, delivering the promise

Take control of your business performance: navigating blind is no longer an option

The components of Corporate Performance Management - part I

The components of Corporate Performance Management - part II

Transforming your field force and reducing costs with new mobile technologies

Decision sciences

Supply chain modelling

Information technology and systems integration

2020 – Future information technology in focus

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 3 (part 1)

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 3 (part 2)

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 3 (part 3)

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 3 (part 4)

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 6 - Part 1: the future technology scenarios

2020 - Future information technology in focus - issue 6 - Part 2: the 'Foresight' technical papers

2020 – Future information technology in focus – issue 7

2020 - Future technology in focus - issue 2 (part 1)

2020 - Future technology in focus - issue 2 (part 2)

2020 - Future technology in focus - issue 2 (part 3)

2020 - Future technology in focus - issue 2 (part 4)

2020 issue 5

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Agenda issue 0:1

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Agenda: 11

Are you under cyber attack?

Believable numbers - how senior managers can drive successful IT investment

Benchmarking technology in the global economy - legal IT survey results 2003

Building an ROI-based GIS strategic plan and roadmap

Building the 'customer web' - harnessing technology to deliver profitable customer relationships

Bytes for hire - creating an internal market to improve the efficiency of IT service provision (2004)

Capturing customer value - Asia Pacific survey

CIO agenda:2009

Core banking systems transformation - A fruitful endeavour or a rotten core?

CRM in an e-business world - attracting 'eyeballs' and getting them to stick (1998)

Customer focus - accelerating success

Customer preference modeling - understanding what will deliver value to customers and to the organization

Data storage technology - how to maximize ROI

Data warehouses - a business-driven approach

Delivering rapid improvements in customer service - a layered systems architecture to support CRM

Drowning_in_Data

Establishing business benefits from knowledge management

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Flexible customer care and billing systems

Gaining control – making outsourcing contracts work for both parties

Getting IT right - redesign IT around key decisions points

Getting out of the cost box – PA's international survey on attitudes towards IT in business 2003/04

Hitting the right notes - getting the best result from your service provider

Identity management - Delivering significant bottom-line benefits

Identity management survey 2006

Insourcing - Taking IT back home

IT services publication - Data hygiene - achieving a step change in performance

ITIL in a complex world - Focusing on success in a multi-sourced environment

ITIL maturity survey: 'Wake up and smell the coffee !'

Large projects can deliver their benefits... if integration is planned early based on required outcomes

Lean and IT - PA's survey on the relationship between Lean and IT

Learning to cook - ITIL - Too many cooks in the kitchen

Learning to cook brochure

'Learning to Cook' ITIL - Are people the binding ingredient?

Major wireless operator- Managing complex 'smart-phone' services to improve customer satisfaction and achieve profitable growth

Managing process control security risks - information sheet

Managing process control security risks - Leading the way in process control security

Managing process control security risks - protecting industrial process control and automation systems from cyber attack

Managing your technology portfolio in a changing world

MiFID - Don't lose concentration when playing to win

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

Obtaining value from complex IT programs via ROI-driven strategy

Optimising IT multi-sourcing

Organising IT for optimum business value

Outsourcing in the pharmaceutical industry – how to do it right

Outsourcing: mindset switch - moving from cost control to managing for flexibility and benefits realisation

Pa Software Services - IT solutions to shout about

Pricing for profits

Process Control Security Health Check - Understanding the cyber security risks facing industrial control systems

Quick wins are not enough - presentation from the itSMF Conference 2007

Rapid Systems Development - delivering the right solution more quickly

RFID, Small tags - big deal

Supplier selection in high risk IT procurement - getting the best supplier at the best price

The myths and facts behind cyber security for process control systems

The strategy and rationale for Customer Relationship Management

Top 10 tips for global ITIL implementation

Traffic Management Act - Portal Case Studies

Traffic Management Act: Helping Local Authorities to Manage Street Works

Treat it like a toaster - achieving 25% savings in IT infrastructure

Understanding misunderstanding - Investing in successful outsourcing relationships [IT outsourcing survey 2006]

Viewpoint on customer relationship management

Viewpoint on ERP value mining

Viewpoint on managing for shareholder value

Viewpoint on Sourcing for value

Virtual worlds, participatory media and Second Life - Explore how virtual worlds and related media can help your business

Walking the razor's edge - gaining competitive advantage from CRM requires innovation and the right technology solution

Web hosting - getting the solution your business needs for 50% of the cost

Where is the weakest link in mortgage processing? Outsourcing - just a matter of time

Market analytics

Answering your data needs for mission-critical decisions

Listening to your customers while keeping an eye on the bottom line

People and organizational change

Changes HR journal - understanding the complexity of HR transformation

Changes journal - Understanding how to maximize talent

Creating value from HR outsourcing - the need for 'whole-brain' thinking

Design and delivery of employee reward systems

Employee relations culture

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

How effective is your public sector board?

HR analytics - when tough questions call for hard reasoning

HR 'Rules of thumb': HR has changed - how do you measure up?

Leading people through uncertainty

Learning at your fingertips: delivering the knowledge and skills all your people need, all the time

Making learning count: creating a strategy to enable training and development to drive performance

PA: the independent HR outsourcing adviser

People transition during outsourcing – why leave it to chance?

People transition during outsourcing – why leave it to chance?

Redundancy - managing the survivors

Shared service centres: delivering the promise - survey

Shared services, delivering the promise

Shared services: build or buy

The offshoring wave - Research study into the implications for the human resources function

Transforming results through behavioural change

Program and project management

Bricks and mortar, copper and fibre - Financial services organisations can avoid hidden pitfalls by incorporating IT infrastructure effectively into their relocation programmes

Creating long-term value through mergers and acquisitions

Creating shareholder value from acquisition integration

Creating the winning project team

Designing business change programs to succeed

Get stronger - 'Lean' on your people - Financial services organisations can transform their operations by applying Lean approaches

Imagine a world where out of the ordinary delivery is not out of reach

Imagine a world where you can improve project performance

Joint ventures: Make it so you can break it - Managing the downside risk of joint ventures

Navigating complexity: Putting complexity thinking into practice

Project management: Costs and benefits - new survey by PA Consulting Group with the German Association for Project Management

Project portfolio delivery effectiveness survey: example report

Projects culture: the route to high performance

Realising the value of acquisitions

Take control of your business performance

Taking hold of the reins - Salvaging business value from complex IT programs

The art and science of program delivery

The power of project and program management

The rework cycle

Three pillars of governance underpin the successful delivery of major change

To do things fast, do them differently

Understanding Successful Project Portfolio Delivery

Why do projects fail?

Strategy and marketing

Commercial due diligence - A key strategic tool for successful private equity transactions

Commercial due diligence - Helping identify the real strategic value of mergers and acquisitions

Creating value during a downturn

Finance business partnering - Are you stepping up to the challenge ?

Inspiration, excellence and achievement - Helping universities manage for sustainable academic excellence

Managing for Shareholder Value in difficult times

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

Strategy briefing for universities: No.1 - Excellence is not enough - How to develop better management strategies for sustaining academic excellence

Strategy briefing for universities: No.2 University strategies from the outside-in - Why and how universities should learn to see themselves from an external perspective

Strategy for cost reduction

The Complete CEO - The executive's guide to consistent peak performance

Technology and innovation - product and process development

3G basestation simulation - picocellular and microcellular base stations require a new breed of baseband architectures

3G essential intellectual property - signs of hope

3G Essential patents

4G battle looms in Europe at 2.6GHz

A change of context -Can Lean be applied to new product introduction?

A new model for biotech - do biotechs need a new business model?

Agile software development

An innovative diagnosis

Auto injectors technology advances

Automatic injection devices : developments and future trends

Battle for broadband access

Breakout - technology and innovation magazine - edition 6

Breakout briefing edition 1: Whitewater R&D - investing in a turbulent future; preventing critical defects reaching the market; reaping the whirlwind of new product development; innovation in machinery development.

Breakout briefing edition 2: Transforming process capabilities into assets; innovation at Novo Nordisk; addressing issues of 21CFR11 compliance; sustainable breakout innovation in the food industry; rigorous and independent due diligence.

Breakout briefing edition 3: Innovation partnerships; innovation at GSK Consumer Healthcare; making product investment pay off; drug anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Breakout briefing edition 4: Interviews with heads of R&D at DePuy and IMI Vision; creating future market scenarios with PA's FutureWorlds; Benefits of enhancement packaging; interview with Dr Alec MacAndrew, PA's Global Head of Technology

Breakout innovation seminar: medical devices - Executive summary

cGMP for the 21st Century - take advantage of the changing regulatory climate

Characterisation of functional coatings

Cleantech - PA's services

Complexity versus cost - base station manufacturers must work with highly demanding applications of real-time electronics and software, and yet, at the same time, they are under pressure to keep prices down

Convergence means choice

Creating winning pharmaceutical partnerships in the 21st century

Critical decisions - this article discusses the likelihood that there will be increasing technical divergence between mobile operators

Dead zones - dead zones in your 3G network can disappoint your users and reduce revenue

Designing the bottom line [The importance of product design for generating brand equity]

Divide and conquer- Should fixed telecommunications operators be IT or media companies?

Don't stop the runaway train - harness its energy to improve the odds of making a medical breakthrough

Drug device combination products

Effective delivery of new healthcare products and services

Environmental and renewable strategy

Ergonomics - sustaining product success through world-class ergonomics

Femtocell access points can deliver the right price for a low volume product

Flexible manufacturing Breakout 5

Food and beverages innovation seminar - Executive summary, April 2003

Futureworlds - using uncertainty to drive innovation

Going with the flow - the new design of flow meter developed by PA that could halve production costs

Growing Siemens patent licensing programme

GSM on railways - PA's track record in GSM-R and rail networks

Helping innovators make bigger waves

Human vision models slash development time for new contact lens technologies

Impacts March 2007

Impacts September 2006

Innovating at the edge of chaos

Innovation at DePuy, Breakout 5

Innovation at IMI Vision, Breakout Article

Innovation at Rotork

Innovation at the edge of chaos Breakout 5

Innovation Survey - going for growth - realizing the value of innovation

Innovative drug delivery - PA's capabilities and track record in developing innovative drug delivery technologies for clients

Keep your powder dry - moisture in dry powder inhalers

Manufacturing compliance - an emerging topic in life science companies' boardrooms

Mass serialisation

Medical devices and instrumentation - development of medical devices and instrumentation

Missing the outsourcing trick - how can mobile operators respond to the ever-increasing pressure to cut costs without compromising the future viability of their business?

Mobile service arriving at

Mobile WiMAX

Motorola : Pipping competitors to the UMTS post with PA testing technology

Network refarming - realising the benefits

Network sharing - Is your marriage made in heaven

Obtaining the best telecom contract for your organization

On Wireless 1

On Wireless 10

On Wireless 11

On Wireless 12

On Wireless 12

On Wireless 2

On Wireless 3

On Wireless 4

On Wireless 5

On Wireless 6

On Wireless 7

On Wireless 8

On Wireless 9

Parenteral delivery is here to stay

PA's all-software microcell 3G basestation - UMTS microcell base station product breakthrough

PA's consulting services to life science companies

PA's track record in the development of specialised injection systems

Patent world -PA's Wireless IPR newsletter

Police Standards Unit - Thematic review of the use of automatic number plate recognition within police forces

Product and process engineering - delivering innovative healthcare technology

Putting the customer first

Qualcomm view of IPR and Innovation

Simulating an Avian Flu pandemic

Swimming against the tide - Seizing a competitive advantage in the downturn - an extract from Breakout 7

SwitchOn - Technology in public services

Technology centres - this publication showcases the work of PA's technology centres

Technology foresighting - turning technology trends to commercial advantage

Technology in the Public Sector: Transport

The Genome Effect Breakout 5

The potential of flexible manufacturing techniques

The value of engineering

Thin client medical devices

Transforming development productivity through integrated automation

Unilever extract article from Breakout 6

Vision assisted cell inspection

What's hot? - WLANs and 3G services should be able to work together

WiMAX manufacturers need to understand the costs of IPR

WiMAX vs 3G?

Wireless in Transport brochure

Wireless systems in healthcare

Zanzibar Managed Service

Lighting the fuse - Better buying for government

Sustainable Procurement – The Art of Buying Green