2007
Identifying and meeting future defence challenges - DSEI 2007
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03 September 2007
At DSEi 2007, General Sir Mike Jackson, Senior Advisor at PA Consulting Group and former Chief of the General Staff, and Nick Chaffey, PA's Global Head of Defence Consulting, will be looking at the challenges that are now facing defence, as well as what needs to be done in order to transform performance.
Together they will look at topics including:
- Future defence challenges
- Rising to meet those challenges
- Delivering the right capability
- Reducing delivery timescales and costs - substantially
- Maximising capability at the front line
- Defining, maintaining and sourcing the right skills and expertise.
The presentations, which start at 10.00am on Wednesday 12 September 2007 as part of the DSEi Global Defence Conference at the ExCel Centre, London, will draw on the experience of both General Sir Mike Jackson and PA Consulting Group.
PA has been working with the defence community for over 60 years and has a proven track record of delivering successful projects in both government and industry. PA’s capabilities span many of the key challenges in defence, from improving acquisition performance to delivering complex equipment and capability programmes, from driving the NEC agenda to transforming business performance and delivering organisational change.
For more information, please contact:
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| Heather Smith |
| PA Consulting Group |
| 123 Buckingham Palace Road |
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| SW1W 9SR |
| United Kingdom |
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Tel: +44 20 7312 4975 |
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Fax: +44 20 7312 4639 |
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E-mail:
heather.smith@paconsulting.com |
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Kathryn Hampson
Defence marketing manager
PA Consulting Group
123 Buckingham Palace Road
London
SW1W 9SR
Telephone: +44 20 7881 3354
E-mail: kathryn.hampson@paconsulting.com
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Notes to editors
1. About General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO.
For photographs please contact Kathryn Hampson at PA on 020 7881 3354.
General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO
Senior Advisor at PA Consulting Group and former Chief of the General Staff
General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS) from February 2003 – August 2006, after a highly distinguished career in the British Army spanning more than four decades. He is now Senior Advisor at PA Consulting Group.
Prior to his appointment as CGS, General Sir Mike Jackson served most recently as Commander in Chief Land Command (from 2000), Commander Kosovo Force (in 1999), Commander ACE Rapid Reaction Corps (from 1997) and Director General Development and Doctrine.
General Sir Mike Jackson has seen considerable active service: he commanded at company and brigade level in Northern Ireland, as a divisional commander in Bosnia, and as a corps commander in Macedonia and Kosovo.
2. 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
- a highly responsive approach: we listen, and then we act decisively and quickly
- 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.
• defence • energy • financial services • government and public services • international development • life sciences and healthcare • manufacturing • postal services • retail • telecommunications • transportation • strategic management • innovation and technology • IT • operational improvement • human resources • complex programme delivery
Delivering business transformation
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