Public Sector news in the UK | Page 16

An overview of news, trends and research in the Public Sector industry in the UK:

CGI helps Oslo with modernisation of public schools ICT Oslo’s Agency for Education has hired CGI to modernise a large ICT system used by the city’s public schools. The new system will support more than 90,000 students and teachers in all of Oslo’s 172 public schools and lea
16 October 2014
Ecorys: Innovative EU labour mobility scheme for youth The European Commission has hired consulting firm Ecorys to evaluate its recently launched labour mobility scheme for young people.
16 October 2014
US Administration posts for BCG & Scowcroft consultants The US President Obama recently appointed two professionals of consulting firms to key administration posts. Michèle A. Flournoy, Senior Advisor to BCG, and Kevin Nealer, Principal and Partner at The Scowcroft Group, have both bee
15 October 2014
Cambridge Consultants designs smart injection pen Cambridge Consultants has designed a smart injection pen that will help diabetes patients to better manage their insulin delivery and hence their disease, by capturing the exact moment and dose of the insulin at the moment of injection. The so-call
10 October 2014
Ecorys & CSES review European Capitals of Culture The European Commission has hired consulting firms Ecorys and CSES to undertake an ex post evaluation of the European Capitals of Culture.
08 October 2014
Five IT consulting firms win EC contract of 350 million More than thousand IT consultants of among others KPMG and Sword Group will in the coming four years support the European Commission with IT advisory and support. The mega contract has a total value of €450 million, roughly £350 million.
07 October 2014
50 new jobs for Erasmus team in Cardiff, Wales In the coming months the Erasmus team of the British Council Wales will significantly grow its headcount from 6 FTE to more than 50 FTE. The expansion follows from the British Council’s extended responsibility to manage the Erasmus
02 October 2014
CGI supports University of Winchester with IT programs IT services firm CGI is partnering with the University of Winchester on two new degree programs: a BA (Hons) Business Management for Information Technology and BSc (Hons) Information Systems Management, and the associated Foundation Degr
01 October 2014
BDO: UK should emulate success of German Mittelstand Party conference season is in full swing, with politicians honing their soundbites for the coming general election.
26 September 2014
A.T. Kearney: New York and London most global cities New York, London and Paris are the world’s most global cities, concludes a research from A.T. Kearney. Since 2008 consulting firm A.T. Kearney has been measuring the ‘global engagement’
16 September 2014
McKinsey: Ireland needs to rethink its economic strategy Ireland is the 14th most ‘connected’ country in the world, driven by a strong performance in knowledge-intensive flows of services, concludes a new research from a href="/firms/mckinsey-company" tit
15 September 2014
EY & Booz consultants obtain US Administration posts The US President Obama has recently appointed two professionals of EY and Booz Allen Hamilton to key administration posts. Orlan Boston, a Principal at EY, has been named Member of the Board of Governors of the United Service Organizations and Regi
09 September 2014
Strategy& and INSEAD conduct analytics research Consulting firm Strategy& and INSEAD have signed a research partnership in the field of demand analytics. In the coming months the partners will conduct research on the link between a company’s ability to master demand analytics and comme
03 September 2014
PwC launches public sector hub in North of England Accounting and consulting firm PwC has launched a new specialist government and public sector hub in the north of England, to meet increased demand for services. The team, which consists of approximately 200 specialists, wi
27 August 2014
Strategy& and Lazard advise Egypt on economic reform The government of Egypt has recently hired strategy consulting firm Strategy& and investment bank Lazard to draw up plans to reshape its economy.
26 August 2014
PA launches Raspberry Pi challenge for pupils & students For the third year in a row PA Consulting Group is organising its so-called ‘Raspberry Pi programming’ competition, a programming challenge for pupils and students. This year, PA is tasking entrants to ‘revolutionise people’
26 August 2014
Israel hires McKinsey to tackle non-Jewish minority issues The government of Israel has hired consulting firm McKinsey & Company to help the country address the problems of Israel’s non-Jewish minorities. Despite the high-profile work, the work is estimated to cost no more than 15 thou
25 August 2014
Deloitte: Virtual doctor visits reach inflection point Rising healthcare costs and improved technology could cause an inflection point in the global adoption of eVisits. Research by Deloitte shows that almost one in six doctor visits will be virtual this year. These eVisits will not only sav
22 August 2014
Consulting firms help Ghana with early warning systems Royal HaskoningDHV and HKV have been appointed by UNDP to develop disaster risk and early warning systems for Ghana.
12 August 2014
KPMG UK invests 20 million in Big Data analytics centre KPMG and Imperial College London are entering in a partnership to create the ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’.
12 August 2014
Philips and Accenture innovation helps ALS patients Accenture and Philips have developed a prototype application that allows ALS patients to control their devices through mind control and by using voice and eye commands.
07 August 2014
Dutch consulting firms support Ghana water project A Dutch consortium of two consulting firms and a non-governmental health organisation has been granted the task to develop a long-term water, sanitation and hygiene plan for the Ghana-Netherlands WASH Programme in Ghana. p cla
07 August 2014
Atos, Accenture and HP develop Schengen Customs IT The European Agency for Large-Scale IT Systems (eu-LISA) has awarded a consortium of Atos, Accenture and HP a framework contract to maintain and enhance the second-generation Schengen Information Sys
18 July 2014
McKinsey partner enforces Middle East Quartet The so-called 'Middle East Quartet' has appointed the Dutch Kito de Boer to lead its efforts in boosting Palestine’s economic private-sector investments. De Boer works for McKinsey & Company since 1985 an
30 April 2014
Parliamentary questions on McKinsey in Luxemburg In Luxembourg political uproar has emerged because of the hiring of McKinsey & Company by the Ministry of Finance. Critics are angry because the global strategy consulting organization was hired without the use of a public tendering process. Instea
07 April 2014
Irish unhappy about massive spending on consultants Government officials and media in Ireland are becoming more and more critical towards massive cash flow from (semi)private institutions to management consultants. After multiple recent cases, again a disclosure caused public noise last month. This time
11 February 2014
Altran technology engine behind CubeSat mini-satellite Mid-November last year, a consortium of companies, including consulting firm Altran, launched the so-called ‘Lunar CubeSat’ satellite.
07 January 2014
BearingPoint helps Ireland with a unique postcode system BearingPoint has been selected to lead the development and roll out of the new Irish postcode system. After the go-live, Ireland will be the first country in the world with a unique coding per home
27 November 2013
PwC and Ecorys: A lot of corruption in public procurement Corruption in public procurement costs the European Union billions on a yearly basis. On average between 3% and 4.4% of the overall value of public procurements ends up in the wrong place.
26 November 2013
Altran helps Dubai with building a mega aircraft center A consortium of companies in Dubai has recently decided to build a new jet and helicopter maintenance center. The facility will be capable of maintaining up to 60 business jets and 40 helicopters per month. The maintenance center, known as 'The Wings V
22 November 2013
Elaine Bennett partner at healthcare branch of Atos Consulting In the United Kingdom, Atos Consulting appointed Elaine Bennett as its partner. She is coming from branch partner Finnamore Consulting.
07 November 2013
McKinsey develops economic vision for Pakistan The government of Pakistan has hired McKinsey & Company to support the development of the social-economic vision for the country.
05 November 2013

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