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<title>Transport for London  delivering over 20% cashable savings</title>
<description>TfL  delivering over 20% cashable savings</description>
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<title>Pharmaceutical company - Helping with service provider selection</title>
<description>Pharmaceutical company asked PA for help when its service provider was unable to meet its increasingly complex needs or to provide the required service levels at acceptable cost.</description>
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<title>Major car manufacturer  designing and implementing European Financial Shared Services</title>
<description>Major car manufacturer  designing and implementing European Financial Shared Services</description>
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<title>PA's international IT outsourcing survey 2009</title>
<description>PA's international IT outsourcing survey 2009 was undertaken with large scale enterprises in the US, UK and Europe.  It revealed that an overwhelming emphasis on reducing outsourcing costs has resulted in short term gains, but caused multiple weaknesses in relationships, integration effectiveness and innovation.</description>
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<title>Energy utility - developing a strategy for outsourcing HR services</title>
<description>Energy utility - developing a strategy for outsourcing HR services</description>
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<title>Getting the right sourcing solutions to avoid disputes and litigation</title>
<description>Getting the right sourcing solutions to avoid disputes and litigation</description>
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<title>Pharmaceutical company - Helping with developing a renegotiation strategy for outsourcing</title>
<description>Pharmaceutical company asked PA for help developing a renegotiation strategy and implementing it for an outsourced IT service</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/our-experience/pharmaceutical-company-helping-with-developing-a-renegotiation-strategy-for-outsourcing/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:41:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Human Resource Executive - Signs of life, 17 June 2010</title>
<description>Scott Lever, PA's outsourcing expert (based in  Boston, US) recently shared his perspectives on recent M&amp;A activity in the HR BPO space to Human Resources Executive.</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/articles-quoting-pa-experts/human-resource-executive-signs-of-life-17-june-2010/</link>
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<title>Recruiter - Evolving recruitment, 23 June 2010</title>
<description>PA's HR expert, letter to Recruiter.</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/opinion-pieces-by-pas-experts/recruiter-evolving-recruitment-23-june-2010/</link>
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<title>Computer Weekly - Public sector cuts to governance, 22 June 2010</title>
<description>Mike Henley, PA's IT outsourcing expert, letter to Computer Weekly.</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/opinion-pieces-by-pas-experts/computer-weekly-public-sector-cuts-to-governance-22-june-2010/</link>
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<title>Maximising the benefits of sourcing services from the cloud  Smart</title>
<description>In exploring cloud's potential, it is vital CIOs take the time to find the right provider and service package and ensure that they understand the full implications of this very different commoditised service provision.</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/our-thinking/sourcing-in-the-cloud/</link>
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<title>ASK:PA a sourcing question</title>
<description>ASK:PA</description>
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<title>Thinking differently about sourcing: the challenges of a zombie economy</title>
<description>In a zombie economy where many businesses are clinging on to survival, organisations need to take a long hard look at their relationships with outsourcing providers.</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/our-thinking/thinking-differently-about-sourcing-the-challenges-of-a-zombie-economy/</link>
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<title>Staying ahead of the game: agile decision making  Fit for the future</title>
<description>Staying ahead of the game: agile decision making</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:23:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tackling your organisations totems and taboos  Fit for the future</title>
<description>Tackling your organisations totems and taboos</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/our-thinking/tackling-your-organisations-totems-and-taboos/</link>
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<title>HR Zone - The five myths of outsourcing, 11 November 2010</title>
<description>PA advises that all HR directors should consider their sourcing options and how they should secure the capabilities required to deliver an effective an efficient HR service</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/opinion-pieces-by-pas-experts/hr-zone-the-five-myths-of-outsourcing-11-november-2010/</link>
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<title>Defence Management Journal - A DECS appeal, 1 November 2010</title>
<description>The MoD must find a way to maintain its growing e-commerce agenda while making savings, argue Andy Brown and Ian Kelly, Defence Experts at PA Consulting Group</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/opinion-pieces-by-pas-experts/defence-management-journal-a-decs-appeal-1-november-2010/</link>
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<title>Defence Management Journal - The march of MODAF, 1 November 2010</title>
<description>The MoD Architectural Framework has a key role to play in supporting UK defence, argue David Mawby and Fiona Burn, Defence Experts at PA Consulting Group</description>
<link>http://www.pagovernmentservices.com/introducing-pas-media-site/highlighting-pas-expertise-in-the-media/opinion-pieces-by-pas-experts/defence-management-journal-the-march-of-modaf-1-november-2010/</link>
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<title>Financial Times -  Offshore outsourcing: Location, location, location  who cares any more? 15 November 2010</title>
<description>This article in the Financial Times Business of Consulting report looks at how consultants believe they have a key role to play in helping governments achieve spending cuts. Jonathan Cooper-Bagnall, head of sourcing consulting at PA Consulting Group, gives his view.</description>
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<title>Why arent more leaders getting intimate?  Fit for the future</title>
<description>Why arent more leaders getting intimate?</description>
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