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Communications, media and entertainment
Networks are a source of innovation and competitive advantage
Supporting advocates with specialist industry expertise
Utility contact centres – reaping the benefits of social change and new digital channels
Making a success of network sharing and managed services
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Thinking differently about sourcing: the challenges of a zombie economy
Getting the right sourcing solutions to avoid disputes and litigation
Thinking differently about sourcing: Negotiating a smarter cloud contract
2010: Last chance for LTE IPR?
On Wireless, edition 13 – PA's journal on the key issues facing operators and manufacturers in wireless telecoms
Telehealth advances: empowering people to manage their own health and wellness | Future of Healthcare
Being smart with mobile technology : utility organisations | Smart
Being smart with mobile health: improving patient health at a reduced cost | Smart
People + Technology = Change - A handbook for a Smart Business | Smart
Entering the new mobile ecosystem | Smart
Customer interaction - how are you using new sources of data to steer customer interaction? | Smart
Trust - how will you build customer trust and loyalty in the smart world? | Smart
Efficiency - how are you increasing efficiency to become a world-class competitor? | Smart
Being smart survey | Smart
Smart core services - how are you developing your core services to remain competitive? | Smart
How can the CIO achieve their innovation potential and stay one step ahead of the competition? | Smart
Being smart with mobile business services: building better connections with customers and employees | Smart
Being smart with mobile technology – ensuring security | Smart
Capturing the potential of mobile business in financial services | Smart
Being smart: Realising the potential of mobile business | Smart
Tell us your experience of network outsourcing and sharing
Creating a future for the communications, media and entertainment industry
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future
Defence and security
Defence Management Journal - A comprehensive approach to the next defence review, Autumn 2009
Defence Management Journal - Shaping the future of defence, December 2009
NECWORKS – ideas and insight into the application and technologies of NEC
Managing the threat of espionage
The UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR)
4D: new perspectives on defence – Issue 2 – addressing key challenges in defence
Leading the way to a successful future for UK defence post-SDSR
Delivering defence reform and the defence materiel strategy: establishing effective partnering in UK defence
Developing a sustainable export market for UK defence
Developing an effective approach to improving acquisition
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Putting the supply chain at the heart of your fitness strategy | Fit for the future
Defence business uncertainy - how to win in difficult times
Defence transformation: new relationships between defence industry and the front-line commands
Taking an integrated approach to cyber security | Cyber security
Defence transformation: Getting defence fit for the future | Fit for the future
Developing an effective cyber security strategy
Defence transformation: opportunities from the 'Yellow Book' review to drive cost efficiency for the UK MOD and industry
Maximising the value of commercial relationships through improved incentivisation
Managing the cyber security threat to industrial control systems
Energy
Leading performance in utility customer service
Gas-to-gas competition is increasing in German gas markets: The implications for Germany and other EU gas markets
Aligning IT with the upstream oil and gas lifecycle
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Securing energy supply in an uncertain world
EPRI Report – collateral risk analytics for energy trading and portfolio risk management
Impacts of Dodd-Frank on energy companies
Trends in Counterparty Risk Management
The current state of the US capacity markets | Smart
Getting return on investment from smart technology in the utility sector | Smart
Protecting consumer information collected by smart energy meters | Smart
Using consumer engagment to drive your smart grid strategy | Smart
Securing the energy supply through smart meters | Smart
Using smart meters to increase home energy efficiency | Smart
Utilities hold the key to unlocking EV adoption | Greening Business
Building a long-term renewable energy strategy | Greening Business
Addressing the challenge of expiring federal incentives for renewables | Greening Business
Driving operational efficiency in wind farm maintenance and hydro maintenance | Greening Business
SolarReserve – Commercialising concentrated solar power for large scale energy generation | Greening business
Achieving smart meter success through a service based strategy | Smart
Developing renewable energy supply chains in Scotland | Greening Business
Greening the Grid: Planning for a 100% renewably fuelled electric utility | Greening business
Driving the debate on electric vehicles - EV fact or fiction event | Greening business
Putting human resources at the heart of cyber security
Three things electricity market operators should do to improve performance.
Financial services
The zombie economy: Chief Financial Officers must act now to survive
The zombie economy: HR professionals must act now to energise their staff | Fit for the future
Attracting the 'mass affluent'
Managing IT in a recession in the insurance sector
Solvency II: many builders, not enough architects?
Developing an effective cybersecurity strategy
Digital banking – keeping the personal touch
The zombie economy: are the banks regaining health or just zombies limping along?
The zombie economy: Marketing Directors must act to secure their customer base
Making IT more credible
Rebuilding customer confidence – turning the corner in trust
Simplifying compliance – reducing impact with an integrated approach
Preparing for hardware-accelerated High Frequency Trading
New money from mobile banking
Getting ahead of the competition in mobile services
Ensuring the success of your Solvency II programme
How will Solvency II affect your core business?
Entering the new mobile ecosystem | Smart
Data Day Effectiveness - a new approach to getting data into decisions
How can the CIO achieve their innovation potential and stay one step ahead of the competition? | Smart
Being smart with mobile business services: building better connections with customers and employees | Smart
Making green mobility a reality | Greening business
Managing uncertainty: should your organisation prepare for a break-up of the Eurozone?
Making the green economy a reality | Greening business
Greening operations | Greening business
Greening the power supply | Greening business
Understanding the impact of FATCA
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future
Government and public services
British social workers 'are being spread too thin'
How will new local council legislation aid the UK's recovery from recession?
London council tax bills cut or frozen 'thanks to improved efficiency'
Is there too much of an administrative burden on local government?
Urgent rethink needed to reduce ICT costs in UK local government
Sharing - evolution or legislative revolution?
Scottish council chiefs agree to forgo 2.5% pay rise
Report urges reform of social care model
Older generation can learn through technology
Adapting to the new economics of higher education
London authorities 'should share financial and HR services'
Top performing councils to be offered greater freedom
Local authorities 'should lead back-to-work schemes'
Chancellor urged to spare adult education courses
Government procurement criticised over ''old boys' network''
No change is not an option
PA perspective on Welfare Reform - Edition 2
Will collaboration stop us grinding to a halt?
Moving towards green transport
Reducing emissions with growth– an impossible choice?
Sharing and handling of secure data
Driving education reform from the bottom up
Transforming learning – A perspective on education systems
PA survey reveals vice-chancellors' predictions on the impact of funding cuts
Councils promised new powers to scrap old bye-laws
Surviving the spending cuts
UK drops down graduate league table
UK pledges £24m to support low carbon vehicles
Re-inventing the business of universities
Cloud Computing has extensive consequences
The winners in the air transport industry are the players that manage change effectively.
Browne 'to call for end of upper limit on tuition fees'
Central funding falls 26%
Shared services provide real challenges for councils
Councils urged to follow CLG example on spending transparency
Introducing the System Reform Model
£5m scheme to boost public transport ahead of Olympics
Coalition sparks revolution in government technology
Government cuts could shelve transport projects worth billions
How can the London Underground reverse a fall in journeys?
How will high-speed rail projects be funded?
Speed camera switch-off creating road safety void
UK council agrees electric car ''roadmap'' deal
Clegg vows ''sweeping change'' to reverse centralisation
Poll: 35% of council website users left frustrated
eCall – in the slow lane for delivering traffic flow improvements?
Universities need to compete in global market'
English councils 'fear 25,000 job losses'
How can skill levels and employment prospects improve in the EU?
Government pledges funding for sustainable transport projects
Restoring trust in evidence-based policy-making
Watching the waste – Instilling cost management as a 'business as usual' activity
Big Society, Bold State
Escaping the Red Queen Effect – re-thinking the university in the new economics of HE
Improving the effectiveness of public sector ICT
The UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR)
Transform and optimise your customer experience
Defining the vision and service delivery blueprint to enable a radical transformation of government services
Ensuring reliable power amid new technologies
Reducing procurement timescales: focus on outcomes before process
Creating a cost conscious public sector
Thinking big? Involving everyone in saving public money
The potential for savings in a cost conscious public sector
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Collaboration is key - three steps to solving wicked problems
Exploring new ways of attracting private-sector funding of public-sector projects | Fit for the future
The Future of Healthcare – the drive for more personalised care | Future of Healthcare
NHS Operating Framework - the way forward
Cut NHS bed numbers to improve services, says thinktank
Joined-up delivery 'will improve UK neonatal care'
Lack of NHS data 'holding back service improvement'
NHS London needed to improve the quality of healthcare services
Putting the Frontline First - Smarter Government | Smart
The role of Telehealth in healthcare reform – sharing experiences from both the US and Europe
How telehealth can help the NHS meet its sustainability targets | Future of Healthcare
GP Commissioning | Future of Healthcare
Developing vehicles to meet carbon emissions targets | Greening Business
Drive down CO2 emissions and costs through greener fleet strategy | Greening Business
Collaborating to ensure a smooth journey for the future car | Greening Business
Equipping GP Commissioners for success | Future of Healthcare
Shaping the future for people and the services they deliver | Future of Healthcare
Implementing consultant delivered services | Future of Healthcare
Providing education in the new commissioning environment | Future of Healthcare
Maximising telehealth to support long term conditions management
Assistive technology - learning from experience | Future of Healthcare
Delivering process excellence
Anticipating the Future Citizen
Policing in 2020
Policing in 2020: roundtable discussion
Shaping the future of policing - the UK Organised Crime Strategy
Smarter borders: strengthening border security through integration
Degrees of freedom
Developing renewable energy supply chains in Scotland | Greening Business
Responding to the rising cost of adult social care
Leadership and operations excellence
Adopt a whole-system approach to Adult Social Care
Delivering Effectiveness and Efficiency in Local Government
Local public services, made for sharing?
Making the right partnering choice
The potential of political partnership
Exploring Alternative Service Delivery Models
Balancing security and privacy - modernising the UK's security and policing capability | Cyber Security
Patient-centric healthcare – the case for process innovation | Future of Healthcare
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future
Manufacturing
Manage risk to secure safer supply - a survey by PA Consulting Group
Manufacturing strategy
Best practice costing
Lean NPDI maturity – a survey by PA Consulting Group
Manufacturers 'cutting costs to survive recession'
Outsourcing and offshoring R&D
Get it lean – learn from PA's new product development and launch survey
Is this the end of offshoring ? 'No' says PA Consulting Group
Toyota reduces Japanese output
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Engagement through social media | Fit for the future
Putting the supply chain at the heart of your fitness strategy | Fit for the future
Rethinking the supply chain for a prosperous future | Fit for the future
Supply chain compliance is key – economic, ethical and environmental
Developing vehicles to meet carbon emissions targets | Greening Business
Meet carbon emission targets with EV technology | Greening Business
Drive down CO2 emissions and costs through greener fleet strategy | Greening Business
Collaborating to ensure a smooth journey for the future car | Greening Business
SolarReserve – Commercialising concentrated solar power for large scale energy generation | Greening business
The new profit imperative for car manufacturers – sales and aftersales best-of-class
How are organisations managing in today's more unpredictable and volatile world? | Fit for the future
Improving knowledge-worker productivity | Fit for the future
Recession highlights need for a 'flexible supply chain strategy'
Should car manufacturers outsource more operations to cut costs?
IT Consulting
Hitting the right notes with your service provider relationships
2020 - Future information technologies in focus
Software Asset Management
Virtualization, realizing the benefits
Driving the demand-to-supply chain for ICT
Solution builder - Delivering innovative software solutions
Business Intelligence - insight-led decision making | Smart
Urgent rethink needed to reduce ICT costs in UK local government
Effective identity management – improving efficiency while reducing risks
PA's international IT outsourcing survey 2009
IT Innovation report - Listen! Engage! Be!
Information Communication Technology report – technology trends for a smarter world
Aligning IT with the upstream oil and gas lifecycle
Emotions are key to IT Project success
Outomation – The next wave for corporate efficiency
Managing your IT portfolio
Managing IT in a recession in the insurance sector
Supporting advocates with specialist industry expertise
By securing influence and control, CIOs can better contribute to business performance
Open Innovation - five steps to succes
Successful agile software development requires discipline
Stop changing and start disrupting
Applying discipline to agile techniques to fix the flaws in UK government IT
Multi-sourcing - the hidden implications for your organisation
Improving the effectiveness of public sector ICT
Time to catch-up on technology
Google mulls face recognition technology
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Thinking differently about sourcing: the challenges of a zombie economy
Getting the right sourcing solutions to avoid disputes and litigation
Thinking differently about sourcing: Negotiating a smarter cloud contract
Is the Patchwork fit for the future? | Fit for the future
Talent maximisation – Focus your best resources on the highest-impact activities | Fit for the future
Taking an integrated approach to cyber security | Cyber security
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Viewpoint – 10 perspectives on ERP
Enterprise architecture 'bridging gap between IT and business' | Fit for the Future
When will you start moving your mail and collaboration services into the cloud? | Smart
Making the most of mobile with right approach to mobile apps | Smart
Cloud computing - overcoming the inhibitors | Smart
Businesses must view software as an asset rather than a cost
CIOs need to go beyond portfolio management
Maximising the benefits of sourcing services from the cloud | Smart
How can the CIO achieve their innovation potential and stay one step ahead of the competition? | Smart
Addressing the challenge of cloud interoperability | Smart
Helping to secure data in the cloud | Smart
Understanding client-supplier relationships in the cloud | Smart
Could a Chaos Monkey help you build confidently in the cloud? | Smart
How can the CIO achieve their innovation potential and stay one step ahead of the competition | Smart
Building an ROI-based GIS strategic plan and roadmap | Smart
Securing GIS programme budget | Smart
The benefits of GIS, an ROI approach | Smart
Critical success factors for Enterprise GIS | Smart
Bringing GIS into an organization | Smart
Enterprise GIS | Smart
Applying a benefits driven approach to GIS implementation | Smart
Geographic Information System – Maximizing your ROI | Smart
Maximizing value through GIS service and delivery organisational design | Smart
Balancing onshore and offshore for maximum value from GIS | Smart
Delivering accurate data | Smart
Taking an agile approach to enterprise architecture | Smart
“Intelligent” Business Intelligence – a transformational approach for outsmarting your competition | Smart
Management Consulting
The zombie economy: Chief Financial Officers must act now to survive
The zombie economy: HR professionals must act now to energise their staff | Fit for the future
Matrix management – is it right for you?
Has your organisation design taken a pounding in the name of surviving the current economic climate?
Managing change means managing reality
Should HR Outsourcing be part of your recovery strategy?
How companies maximise talent four case studies
Engaging employees to release lasting change
How to get what you really want from HR outsourcing
Organising to innovate – innovation must be social
Making the most of your talent in a downturn
Change - managing the human side
Reviving the zombie workforce
Supporting advocates with specialist industry expertise
Talent management – part of your survival strategy?
Innovation in the zombie economy
The zombie economy: are the banks regaining health or just zombies limping along?
The zombie economy: Chief Information Officers at the forefront to battle the zombie economy
The zombie economy: healthcare is thriving in the zombie economy now, but will it last?
The zombie economy: how to succeed and thrive in a difficult new economic climate
The zombie economy: Marketing Directors must act to secure their customer base
The zombie economy: surviving in the zombie economy
The New Age of Digital Marketing
Thinking differently about sourcing: the challenges of a zombie economy
Getting the right sourcing solutions to avoid disputes and litigation
Collaborative Procurement: Can we learn from public sector experience? | Fit for the future
Making performance management positive | Fit for the future
Staying ahead of the game: agile decision making | Fit for the future
Driving performance and value through service integration | Fit for the future | PA Consulting Group
Engagement through social media | Fit for the future
Exploring new ways of attracting private-sector funding of public-sector projects | Fit for the future
Rethinking the role of the HR Director | Fit for the future
Rethinking the supply chain for a prosperous future | Fit for the future
Transforming a complex supply chain to respond to customer needs | Fit for the future
Trust: a question of congruence | Fit for the future
Why aren't more leaders getting intimate? | Fit for the future
Raising Agility - create greater supply flexibility by getting closer to customers | Fit for the future
Thinking differently about sourcing: Negotiating a smarter cloud contract
Tackling your organisation's totems and taboos | Fit for the future
Reinventing your company to meet the needs of the new consumer | Fit for the future
Corporate Business Services - achieving the right blend | Fit for the future
Harnessing innovation to maximise sourcing performance | Fit for the future
Transforming organisation and culture to achieve excellence in project delivery | Fit for the future
Fit for the future: balancing business and technology drivers to deliver IT-enabled change | Fit for the future
Providing programme assurance to ensure successful programme delivery | Fit for the future
Becoming fit for the future through effective talent management | Fit for the future
Improving performance by moving from a product centric to a customer centric approach | Fit for the future
Opening minds to the critical dimensions of service excellence | Fit for the future
Creating a 'Fit for the Future' IT strategy | Fit for the future
Improving knowledge-worker productivity | Fit for the future
Learning the lessons from corporate crises | Fit for the future
Unlocking leadership and talent potential | Fit for the future
Learning from social intelligence: does your outsourcing strategy enhance your brand reputation? | Fit for the future
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future
Technology and Innovation
2020 - Future information technologies in focus
Green supply chain: survey report 2008
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
2010: Last chance for LTE IPR?
What does open innovation mean to pharmaceutical R&D and how can it be realised? | Future of Healthcare
Realising the value of emerging technology start-up companies
Helping you fight illicit trade
Terex - using value engineering to deliver short term cost reduction and embedded learning for the future
Counterfeit drugs supply chain solutions | Future of Healthcare
Extending the shelf life of your diagnostic assay and instrument
Beyond horizon scanning – predicting game changers
PA Consulting Group iPhone antenna test results | Smart
Learning from the Sony network intrusion
Making the most of your Intellectual Property
Prioritising energy efficiency over spectrum efficiency
Healthcare
The zombie economy: healthcare is thriving in the zombie economy now, but will it last?
CIO insight - ensuring success when moving IT applications
Making an impact with Telehealth | Future of healthcare
Realising the benefits of patient empowered social networks
Brands need to come to their senses
Connected Health deployments, lessons from EU and US Industry stakeholders | Future of Healthcare
Health Information vision: transforming healthcare delivery from volume to quality | Future of Healthcare
Necessary revolution - how pharma companies must go to market in a patient-centric | Future of Healthcare
The Future of Healthcare – the drive for more personalised care | Future of Healthcare
Translational medicine | Future of Healthcare
Turning ideas into products – a pharmaceutical paradigm shift | Future of Healthcare
Understanding shared challenges for Health Information Exchange across the States | Future of Healthcare
What does open innovation mean to pharmaceutical R&D and how can it be realised? | Future of Healthcare
What will the healthcare supply chain look like in 2015? | Future of Healthcare
Telehealth advances: empowering people to manage their own health and wellness | Future of Healthcare
Harnessing technology to drive a healthcare revolution | Future of Healthcare
Assuring compliance during medical product development | Future of Healthcare
Adopting new approaches to risk and return: how insurance companies can succeed | Future of Healthcare
Intelligent health – the future of healthcare
Achievable and cost effective pharmaceutical compliance
Mobile health: policy and regulation for intelligent healthcare | Future of Healthcare
Intelligent health – the future of healthcare. It is a revolution and you are part of it! | Future of Healthcare
Rapid Tablet Extraction sample preparation system for solid dose product testing | Future of Healthcare
Machine assisted inspection: gain major improvement in productivity from skilled scientists
Counterfeit drugs supply chain solutions | Future of Healthcare
Pharma companies must realise the advantages of drug delivery device innovation | Future of Healthcare
Platform Drug Delivery Device | Future of Healthcare
The future of healthcare: making an impact with telehealth | Future of Healthcare
The role of Telehealth in healthcare reform – sharing experiences from both the US and Europe
Reshaping the regulation of health professionals | Future of Healthcare
How telehealth can help the NHS meet its sustainability targets | Future of Healthcare
Can smarter use of information save the NHS £20bn?
Equipping GP Commissioners for success | Future of Healthcare
Shaping the future for people and the services they deliver | Future of Healthcare
Implementing consultant delivered services | Future of Healthcare
New Governance: Ensuring productivity rises significantly to avoid unaffordable healthcare | Future of Healthcare
Providing education in the new commissioning environment | Future of Healthcare
Maximising telehealth to support long term conditions management
Assistive technology - learning from experience | Future of Healthcare
The 'challenge' not the 'burden' of an ageing population | Future of Healthcare
Care home costs: setting fees and making savings | Future of Healthcare
Patient-centric healthcare – the case for process innovation | Future of Healthcare
Survey report - early commercialisation decisions: better information can identify winning medicines
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future
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