MCA Awards 2013 – shortlist announced

Projects and consultants from 30 separate management consulting firms feature in the shortlist for this year’s MCA Awards. Topping the lists for most shortlisted project and individual categories are PwC with 12, Ernst & Young with seven, and Deloitte with seven. Competing against established global consultancies are many of the UK’s top specialist and smaller consultancies.

The shortlist includes some exciting new categories for both consulting projects and outstanding individual consultants. These include two new project categories for Commercial Excellence and Social and Environmental Value, and two individual awards for Young Consultant of the Year and Consultant of the Year. In addition, the MCA has this year created an award for the Best New Consultancy Firm.

Alan Leaman, CEO of the MCA, commented: “Following a record level of entries, this year’s MCA Awards shortlist illustrates the wide range of consultancy and individual expertise – whose quality of work has been recognised for delivering value to organisations on both a domestic and global scale. Our expert panel of judges will assess each entry shortly, and we looking forward to showcasing all of the projects at our awards dinners in April.”

The MCA Awards shortlist is as follows:

Best New Consultancy
Elix-IRR
Private Public
Q5

Change Management in the Private Sector
Boxwood with Tube Lines
Challenge Consulting with Hitachi Capital UK
LCP Consulting with Harrods UK
Moorhouse with British Airways
PwC with Adecco

Change Management in the Public Sector
Atos with Staffordshire CSU
Capita with Birmingham City Council
Ernst & Young with HM Treasury
Hay Group with Anglesey Council
Maxxim Consulting with University of Northampton

Commercial Excellence
Accenture with Microsoft
Efficio Consulting with Thames Water
KPMG with Jaguar Landrover
PwC with BBC

Customer Engagement
Deloitte with Canon Europe
iMPOWER with Buckinghamshire, Staffordshire and Hertfordshire County Councils
KPMG with RBS/NatWest
NTT Data with Orange
Finance and Risk Management
Ernst & Young with Credit Suisse
Hudson & Yorke with Zurich Insurance Group

Innovation
BearingPoint with UKHO
IBM with Essex County Council
Private Public with NESTA
Trinity Horne with Yorkshire Water

International
Arup with PRASA
Deloitte with HR Development Fund
Elix-IRR with Standard Bank
Mott MacDonald with Pop Up Foundation

People
Deloitte with BP
McKinney Rogers with Walmart Stores US
PwC with Direct Line Group
PwC with National Apprenticeship Service
Trinity Horne with Welsh Water

Performance Improvement in the Private Sector
CSC with Selex Galileo
Ernst & Young with Willis Group
Navigant with Nationwide
PwC with Bombardier Transportation UK
Qedis with Allen & Overy

Performance Improvement in the Public Sector
Accenture with HMRC
Capita with States of Guernsey
KPMG with West Midlands Police
Mott MacDonald with North Ayreshire County Council

Social and Environmental Value
Atos with Home Office (Hillsborough)
CSC with Future for Youth Foundation
PwC with Department for Education
PwC with Puma
Trinity Horne with Welsh Water

Strategy
Deloitte with Facebook
Elix-IRR with Standard Bank
Kepner-Tregoe with DAL Group
PwC with Vodafone, Telefonica UK, Everything Everywhere

Technology
Arup with National Air Traffic Control
Atos with Olympics 2012
Ernst & Young with UK Border Agency
KPMG with Jaguar Landrover

Individual categories

Change Management Consultant of the Year
Edward Pinkard, Capita
Umang Patel, CSC
Sayeh Ghanbari, Ernst & Young
Ewan Cameron, Moorhouse
Tracey Gribben, PwC

HR Consultant of the Year
Mark Bowden, Deloitte
Rohan De Rozario, Ernst & Young
Paritosh Singh, IBM

Performance Improvement Consultant of the Year
Jonathan D’Souza, Accenture
Lasse Lund, Deloitte
James Bowman, PwC
Paul Deegan, PwC

Strategy Consultant of the Year
Fred Jones, Accenture
Ed Temple, Capita
Paul Le, CSC
Yunus Ozler, Ernst & Young

Technology Consultant of the Year
Stephen Cameron, BearingPoint
Guy Lucchi, CSC
Matt Phipps-Taylor, Deloitte

Young Consultant of the Year
Matt Peirce, BearingPoint
Aimi Hayman, Capita
Joanna Sarno-Hannock, Capita
Phil Humber, CSC
Alison Kay, Moorhouse
Rebecca Lloyd, PwC

Winners for each category will be announced at the Awards Dinner, held at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London on 18 April 2013. All the awards are judged by an independent expert panel of judges with experience of working in the private and public sectors, universities, consultancy and journalism.

Full details on the MCA Awards 2013 are available via www.mca.org.uk/awards.