2002
PA Consulting Group triumphs for fifth year running in the Management Consultancies Association Awards
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07 February 2002
PA Consulting Group, the leading international management, systems and technology consulting firm, has been named overall winner of the fifth annual Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Best Management Practice Awards for its innovative work with the Swiss Government Federal Office of Transport, for developing a wireless communications strategy for the Swiss railway industry. PA was also Highly Commended in the Outsourcing category for its work at the travel technology company, Sabre. In addition, PA's three other entries to this year's awards - a road safety project for the DTLR (the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions), the Scottish Care Information programme for the NHS Scotland, and the UK online project for the Office of the e-Envoy - were all named as among the runners up.
Jon Moynihan, PA's Chairman and Chief Executive, commented:
"For an unprecedented fifth year running, PA has won at the MCA Awards and we are delighted to be named Overall Winner. The award is testimony to our unrelenting focus on our clients and recognition of our success in taking on some of the toughest and most high-profile challenges in our industry."
PA worked with the Swiss Government Federal Office of Transport (Bundesamt für Verkehr - BAV) to unify communications across the Swiss railway sector, which comprises about 50 operating companies. On the strength of PA's work, railway companies in Switzerland are now going ahead with the introduction of a wireless communications system known as GSM-R (GSM for railways) which can meet the needs of the rail industry.
Mr Hüppi, of the Federal Office of Transport, commented:
"PA's work offered us more than just a theoretical recommendation but a practical blueprint for implementing the solution, complete with costs and timescales. The assignment will benefit Swiss railway passengers for many years to come and will help Swiss Railways to maintain its impeccable safety record while introducing faster services."
Phil White, who led the project and is a senior member of PA's wireless technology team, commented:
"The client chose PA because they wanted someone to challenge all their ideas and thrash out a watertight answer. This wasn't a case where we just had to respond to a set of pre-defined objectives - the client wanted a practical way forward, evaluated from every angle so as to minimise risk. Our breadth of capability enabled us to create the detailed roll-out plan, the overall strategy for the communication provider and work on the final technical specification for implementation."
PA was also Highly Commended in the Outsourcing category for its assignment with Sabre. The assignment involved working closely with Sabre during the sale of its outsourcing business, the outsourcing of Sabre's own IT infrastructure, and the creation of a long-term partnership with the buyer.
William J Hannigan, Chairman, President and CEO of Sabre, commented:
"PA was an essential ingredient to achieving Sabre's very aggressive goal of completing an outsourcing sale and marketing agreement within record time."
Jon Moynihan, PA's Chairman and Chief Executive, concluded:
"PA delivers award-winning results because we are a conflict-free firm that combines skills across a unique breadth of capability, spanning management, systems and technology consultancy. We salute the PA consultants and clients who again proved, against the tough competition of over 60 entries from other consulting firms, that PA can be relied upon to deliver impartially driven, leading-edge results, worldwide."
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For more information, please contact:
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| Heather Smith |
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Tel: +44 20 7312 4975 |
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Fax: +44 20 7312 4639 |
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Notes to editors
More information on the winning assignments, together with photographs are available.
The Management Consultancies Association (MCA) was formed in 1956 and represents the leading UK consulting firms, which currently employ over 12,000 consultants and generate approximately £3bn in fee income. In 1999 MCA members performed work for over 90 per cent of the top FTSE 300 companies and all government departments. Management consultancy is an increasingly important industry for the UK economy with revenues for 1999 forecast at £6bn, contributing £1bn to the UK balance of payments.
The Federal Office of Transport (FOT, or known by its German-language acronym of BAV) was founded in 1873 and has been transformed from a classic licensing and supervisory administration into a modern and customer-oriented service industry. Today the FOT is responsible for all the projects in the public transport sector. It provides an advisory and supervisory service in support of some 200 licensed transport enterprises, as well as the cantons and the local authorities.
Sabre Sabre is the leading provider of technology, distribution and marketing services for the travel
industry. Headquartered in Southlake, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company has approximately 5,500 employees in 45 countries. Sabre reported 2001 revenues of $2.1
billion. Sabre maintains an ownership interest of approximately 70 percent in Travelocity.com (Nasdaq: TVLY), the world's leading online consumer travel site; and it owns GetThere, the world's leading provider of Web-based corporate travel reservation systems. Sabre is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TSG). More information on Sabre is available on the Web at http://www.sabre.com/.
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 world-wide from over 40 offices in more than 20 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of around 4,000 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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