PA experts are quoted five times in the FT's 'Business of Consulting' special report.
Bruce Tindale is quoted in the introductory piece 'Reshaped industry is ready to take off', saying:
"A lot of clients have become upset by the amounts of money they have spent on consultants who haven't delivered, and by the huge teams of consultants they have had on site, including people just out of university being charged out at thousands of pounds a day."
Andy Vernon is quoted in a piece on the growth sectors in consulting: 'Public sector and healthcare show signs of rude health', saying:
"Experienced consultancies are ideally positioned to create a delivery-focused bridgehead between public sector customers and their providers. Consultancies should help public sector organisations to create their own delivery culture and skills, enabling them to map and manage the risk landscape more effectively."
Transport for London's satisfaction with PA's work, on its HR shared services centre, was mentioned:
'The co-located human resources shared service centre was a more complex project, because managing staff is part of the organisation's core business. The project took a year from design to implementation and has reduced operating costs by 20 per cent in the first year, saving £8.5m, as well as increasing effectiveness...
"We used PA Consulting as part of an integrated team to bring in experience and SAP skills. They helped us to implement it sooner, so we saved more money." '
There are quotes from Alastair McAuley, head of PA's IT Innovation Unit, and from Jon Moynihan, PA's chairman, in a piece on innovation: 'Firms aim for the important differentiator of fresh ideas', saying:
'PA's IT Innovation Unit produces a regular magazine, 2020, which aims to demonstrate the opportunities that new technology might bring in the near future.
'Says McAuley: "They learn about the technology and maybe talk to PA about how it applies to their organisation."
'PA's London-based IT innovation unit was set up 18 months ago by the UK-based consultancy in an effort to ensure its credentials in this field were more fully recognised by the marketplace, and to inform and inspire its consultants, and thereby clients, about new information technologies and their possibilities. Its much larger counterpart in non-IT technology innovation, based in Cambridge, has for several years illustrated the different directions in which innovative ideas can flow, and results that can be achieved. The same scientists who have developed products to a client's specification also come up with ideas themselves, says Jon Moynihan, PA's chairman.
Bruce Tindale is quoted in 'Everything you needed to know' saying:
"Of the top 30 or 40 consultancies in the world, 90 per cent are publicly quoted, and they are driven by quarterly earnings," says Bruce Tindale at PA Consulting. "I'm absolutely convinced that when clients go to them for consultancy advice, the answer is nearly always a large system or outsourcing contract. Increasingly a lot of them are throwing in consultancy, apparently for nothing. So what's it like to be a consultant, when you are thrown in as a loss leader?"
