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Using PA Consulting’s Innovation Growth Framework, we helped the Norwegian Ski Federation embrace modern trends to reach new audiences. This includes launching new events around modern ski formats such as freestyle, to developing existing competitions to create a richer offer in tune with what young people want.

Around the world, regulators are placing an increased priority on financial services firms’ operational resilience. T. Rowe Price, a global investment manager, wanted to proactively prepare for UK regulatory requirements, while developing a culture of resilience across the firm. We helped them to meet UK requirements for five services in just 14 weeks and empowered internal teams to independently address the remaining services with new skills.

As companies race to build digital businesses, they’re purchasing more public-cloud equipment than ever. Beyond cost and capabilities, however, it’s challenging for organisations to robustly compare technology and understand if they’re overpaying for it. We used our Perfect Cost Grid methodology to help a multinational tech firm identify key levers it could use to drive supplier negotiations and achieve significant cost savings for years to come.

ENSO wants to find a way to solve the environmental impact stemming from tyre use. To bring this idea to life, they needed help defining their business model. This included understanding how a leasing model – where drivers lease tyres-as-a-service and pay according to miles covered – would work.

We worked with Ørsted IT to fundamentally transform the organisation, changing the culture, building capabilities and strengthening processes, helping it become the world's most sustainable company, with the aim to increase green energy production to 99 per cent by 2025.

The PA Consulting Healthcare team worked with the NHS to create the Seacole Centre, a Covid-19 rehabilitation hospital in just 35 days.

Innovation is core to Network Rail’s business. Our experts in innovation, growth strategy, organisational agility and transport worked with Network Rail R&D to launch the Accelerated Innovation Programme. The Programme provides a practical process for turning ideas into workable solutions, capable of testing novel ideas and capturing tangible benefits, in as little as 12 weeks.

We worked with Vestas to roll out agile development processes across their R&D division and kick start a wider agile transformation.

Our diverse team, including experts in IT delivery, transformation, business design and product, design and engineering with a special focus on supply chains, blockchain and automation, worked closely with DFID to understand the challenges facing those providing and delivering aid. We helped DFID explore how blockchain technology can increase accountability and make the supply more transparent to ensure people in need get vital supplies.

Consumers have embraced sustainable fashion. But retailers are still grappling with how to implement circular business models. We helped Stuffstr, an innovative technology start-up that collects, recycles, refurbishes and resells used clothing on behalf of brands, develop the backend systems it needed to grow its business and operations.