2001

PA enjoys record fourth successful year at the MCA Awards - 01 February 2001

PA Consulting Group, the leading international management, systems and technology consulting firm, has repeated its success for the fourth year running at the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Best Management Practice Awards. As the only consulting firm to win three major awards, PA was named winner of two out of the four top awards and the 'highly commended' award in one further category:

• Best Use of E-business for its work helping Egg to become a leading provider of online financial services, harnessing new technology channels to market with leading-edge architecture
• Best Strategy and Business Transformation for its work helping the Youth Justice Board to speed up the youth justice process
• Highly commended in the Best Use of IT Category for its role in supporting BP's merger integration with an innovative outsourcing deal.

This success continues PA's outstanding performance at the MCA awards over the past four years. Last year, PA was announced overall winner, and has been a category winner six times over the past four years plus winning the 'highly commended' award twice.

Jon Moynihan, PA's Executive Chairman commented:

"PA has distinguished itself at the MCA awards for four years running, an unparalleled achievement. These latest honours demonstrate that delivering results for clients is at the heart of all our work and reflect our position as one of the leading strategy-to-implementation firms in the world."

For its award-winning e-business work with Egg, PA acted as a key technical and operational partner, delivering support at critical points in Egg's evolution, from launch through IPO and beyond. Mark Nancarrow, Chief Operating Officer at Egg commented on the client/consultancy relationship:

"PA has played a key role in our success – in all aspects of our architecture, delivery systems and live operations. PA's strength in e-business consulting was exactly what Egg needed."

Hugh Josty, a member of PA's management group and leader of the PA team at Egg, added:

"As online customer propositions have become more complex and technically challenging, we have helped Egg manage the growth in their customer base, avoid risky, expensive technical upgrades and leverage the new emerging channels to market."

PA's assignment for the Youth Justice Board, winner of the Strategy and Business transformation category, was focused on speeding up youth justice to halve the average arrest-to-sentence time for persistent young offenders. PA was appointed by the YJB in June 1999 to assist in delivering improved performance on the ground. The PA team's involvement included strategic advice to the YJB and ministers, production of a best practice guide, provision of hands-on support for more than 120 inter-agency groups, development of an IT solution for performance management and design of a Web site to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Lord Warner of Brockley, Chair of the Youth Justice Board, commented:

"PA has managed to successfully blend helping people at the strategic, government and political level as well as delivering change on the ground. At the national level, PA has won the confidence of ministers and the board, supporting its strategy with a well-argued and to-the-point approach, and at the local level by getting practitioners to change their systems."

In addition to winning the Best Use of IT Category for the past three years, PA was also highly commended this year for its role supporting BP's merger integration. PA helped reduce BP's annual telecoms costs by many tens of millions of dollars through a service rationalisation programme and innovative global outsourcing deal.

Jon Moynihan, PA's Executive Chairman, concluded:

"Every year we face the challenge of outperforming our previous success at the MCA awards and it's a challenge we relish meeting. This year's successes recognise PA's outstanding abilities in e-business, business transformation and IT and once again highlight the quality of our people, their ideas and unrelenting focus on delivering results for clients."

For more information, please contact:

Dr Adam Adams PA Consulting Group 123 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9SR United Kingdom Tel: +44 20 7312 4602 Fax: +44 20 7312 4639 E-mail: adam.adams@paconsulting.com

Notes to editors

1. The Management Consultancies Association (MCA) was formed in 1956 and represents the leading UK-based consulting firms, which currently employ over 20,000 consultants and generate nearly £4bn in fee income. MCA members work for over 90 percent of the top FTSE 300 companies and all government departments. Management consultancy is an increasingly important industry for the UK economy with revenues for 2000 forecast at £7bn, contributing £1bn to the UK balance of payments.
    
   
2. PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm, with a unique combination of these capabilities. Established almost 60 years ago, and operating worldwide from over 40 offices in more than 20 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of some 3,700 people, whose skills span the initial generation of ideas and insights all the way through to detailed implementation.
    
   PA builds strategies for the creation and capture of shareholder and customer value, and helps clients accelerate business growth through innovation and the application of technology. PA works with clients to improve performance, mobilize human resources and deliver change effectively, including managing major projects, and designing and implementing enterprise-wide systems and full e-business solutions.
    
   PA focuses on creating benefits for clients rather than merely proposing them, and this focus is supported by an outstanding implementation track record in every major industry and for governments around the world. PA also develops leading-edge technology both for its clients and within its own portfolio of venture companies in areas ranging from software to wireless technology to life sciences.
    
   PA distinguishes itself from its competitors through the range and quality of its people, the depth of its industry insight, its development and use of technology, and also its independence and culture of respect, collaboration and flexibility in working with clients.
    
   We are proud that our clients say "PA makes it happen".

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