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The full list of our latest thinking around how organisations can become fit for the future, can be found below.

Cracking the code: how social intelligence delivers new insight for outsourcing and shared services15 January 2013
Is your business fit for the future? | Fit for the future01 February 2012
Marzipan: good for cakes, bad for business04 January 2013
Five steps to service transformation13 March 2013
Improving competitiveness in the German gas market26 June 2012
Is the Patchwork fit for the future? | Fit for the future09 November 2011
Engagement through social media28 February 2011
Realising performance advantage by bringing talent management to life04 April 2013
Defence transformation: Getting defence fit for the future20 May 2013
Defence business uncertainty – how to win in difficult times12 February 2013
Collaborative Procurement: Can we learn from public sector experience?21 February 2012
Effective and engaging conversations: the future of performance management28 January 2013
Staying competitive in a mature market: the challenge for life and pension insurers13 November 2012
Defining a shared services strategy that's right for your business06 September 2012
Using a collaborative approach to resolve 'wicked problems'02 August 2012
Making sense of social media: new intelligence for strategy leaders29 January 2013
Challenging traditional IT by focusing on service experience31 August 2012
Balancing business and technology drivers to deliver IT-enabled change03 May 2012
Becoming a well-informed regulator | Fit For The Future19 November 2012
Improving service integration how to build a successful ecosystem20 November 2012
Releasing the benefit of integrated shared services: the change challenge | Fit for the future13 November 2012
Defence transformation: opportunities from the 'Yellow Book' review to drive cost efficiency for the UK MOD and industry15 May 2013
Lessons in talent management from the worlds of art, academia and sport04 April 2013
Ensuring your business continuity spend provides effective, company-wide resilience during times of disruption20 May 2013
How are organisations managing in today's more unpredictable and volatile world?22 May 2013
How a fit utility gets more value from its portfolio investment process22 May 2013
Opening minds to the critical dimensions of service excellence | Fit for the future21 March 2012
Identifying effective people management strategies for uncertain times | Fit for the future06 November 2012
Staying ahead of the game: agile decision making | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Exploring new ways of attracting private-sector funding of public-sector projects25 November 2011
Improving performance by moving from a product centric to a customer centric approach | Fit for the future04 April 2012
Why aren't more leaders getting intimate? | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Crouching tiger, eager dragon: China's role in the future of offshore IT20 November 2012
Improving knowledge-worker productivity | Fit for the future16 November 2012
Transforming a complex supply chain to respond to customer needs | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Benchmarking your project portfolio into shape20 May 2013
Tackling your organisation's totems and taboos | Fit for the future06 November 2012
Unlocking leadership and talent potential | Fit for the future15 November 2012
Prepare for the talent management challenge ahead15 May 2013
Addressing falling profitability: where next for ETD brokers?11 December 2012
Becoming fit for the future through effective talent management02 March 2012
The zombie economy: HR professionals must act now to energise their staff | Fit for the future01 February 2012
Revival of the fittest: preparing to do business in the new economy | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Fuelling the knowledge worker: gaining speed and innovation in the new economy17 May 2012
Managing uncertainty in the developing German gas market26 June 2012
Corporate Business Services - achieving the right blend01 February 2012
Weighing up the case for integrated shared services | Fit for the future06 September 2012
More of our thinking from PA expert consultants | Fit for the future01 August 2012
Raising Agility - create greater supply flexibility by getting closer to customers | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Finding and developing the construction and engineering leaders of tomorrow10 October 2012
Taking a faster, more flexible approach to business change11 January 2013
Harnessing innovation to maximise sourcing performance05 July 2011
Rethinking the role of the HR Director | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Basel III: Don't buy an umbrella; build a boat11 December 2012
Trust: a question of congruence | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Talent management: Raising corporate performance by understanding 'what talent wants'04 April 2013
Recovering failing programmes | Fit for the future25 September 2012
Winning in an uncertain world: how to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee20 February 2013
Business design: lessons from the industry 12 April 2013
Using social media to become a business of influence29 August 2012
Structuring organisations to embrace change in technology and the market | Fit for the Future19 February 2013
Re-thinking risk using social intelligence - PA's CFO Dinner, June 2012 | Fit for the Future12 October 2012
What could social intelligence do for your business29 January 2013
Building an in-house transformation team10 May 2013
Preparing for retail banking's brave new world | Fit for the future02 October 2012
Developing a performance management programme to improve long-term utility performance 17 November 2011
Rethinking the supply chain for a prosperous future | Fit for the future30 November 2011
Defence transformation: new relationships between defence industry and the front-line commands20 May 2013
Profiling the 'Fit for the Future' utility and identifying top-performer behaviors | Fit for the future25 June 2012
Putting the supply chain at the heart of your fitness strategy | Fit for the future06 November 2012
Transforming organisation and culture to achieve excellence in project delivery | Fit for the future13 February 2012
Champions of change: CMOs need a maverick spirit to drive digital success19 April 2013
Reinventing your company to meet the needs of the new consumer | Fit for the future02 August 2012
Enterprise architecture: 'bridging the gap between IT and business'08 May 2013
Surviving the silver tsunami: protecting institutional knowledge and capabilities through effective talent management | Fit for 27 June 2012
Meeting the challenge of programme delivery | Fit for the future13 March 2012
Making performance management positive | Fit for the future08 March 2013
An infrastructure shared is a problem halved: new opportunities for banks11 December 2012
Balancing business and technology drivers to deliver IT-enabled change11 January 2013
Three key pieces of Talent Management research04 April 2013
Learning the lessons from corporate crises | Fit for the future16 November 2012
Tough times, even tougher decisions…14 May 2013
Creating a 'Fit for the Future' IT strategy20 February 2012
Providing programme assurance to ensure successful programme delivery | Fit for the future06 November 2012
Talent maximisation – Focus your best resources on the highest-impact activities | Fit for the future01 February 2012
Driving performance and value through service integration28 May 2011
Social engineering: are your senior executives are risk?29 January 2013

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Bankers wanted for hazardous journey

Establishing what is possible

Caring Times – Health and social care integration is coming: care home providers should act now or be acted upon, 1 May 2013

Management consulting

Business design: lessons from the industry

Award-winning service integration – AstraZeneca

Dagens Samhälle - How to get Swedish authorities to accelerate and brake at the same time, 9 April 2013

IT consulting

Breaking traditional conventions to mine real value from big data

Working with Google to launch a global real-time music game – Google

Ingenioren - 3D print may kick-start a sustainable economy, 25 April 2013

Technology and innovation

Creating a revolutionary kitchen towel - Better All Round

How to manage intellectual property

BBC online - The life of Pi, 21 March 2013

Business challenges

The real risk of fake people

Supporting critical change – NHS North West London

Jyllands-Posten - Growth in mobile banking, May 2013

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