£1billion spent on consultants

Figures show that they spent £909 million on consultants in 2007/8. The figure is a 43 per cent decline on the amount spent two years earlier in 2005/6. However six out of the 16 departments - more than one in three - reported a rise or no change in the amount spent.
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Waiting seems to be the order of the day at the moment, be it budgets to be announced, to hear what clients think of candidates or waiting for the new financial year. Whatever the reason the year has not quite progressed with the promise the start of the year indicated.

This month PSS-Europe has completed an initial scoping document for a BPR project for a SME based in Hatfield, the business has been very successful and out grown the processes that got it up and running. The plan is to review current state, develop processes that will allow the company to continue to grow and then implement those processes. An interesting opportunity as the turnaround time will be quite short and benefits realization will happen quickly.

One of the biggest changes this month is an agreement with W3Partnership for new business development. PSS-Europe has been both time and skills poor in this area, W3P will mean that dedicated resource is working on new business development. This month PSS-Europe has become an official supplier of project resources to Tech Mahindra and CACI, both are large tier one suppliers to major technology companies.

A lot of companies run preferred supplier lists, not being on the list means not getting work and getting on the list is a real challenge. One approach I am working on is the one time supplier use, as most companies have the facility to use a supplier once or twice without having to add them to the PSL. Once the initial trial has been agreed and the customer then sees the quality of the candidates and has a supplier that does what they have said they would do when they said they would do it, it is much easier to get repeat business and get on to the PSL.

A trend that appears to be increasing is the advertising of opportunities on social/interest networks e.g. Linkedin, Plaxo, Naymz etc. Not sorted the best approach to this yet, the efforts made to date on renewable energy engineering sites have only elicited a single digit percentage response rate. The potential for utilizing these sites is huge it is just a matter of working out how.

This Budget was a real non-event. The long list of things that didn't happen are all good news. So when is the next one?
The Budget delivered by Mr Darling last week has received a muted reception. There are no ghastly surprises in the detail, and in summarising the technical content it could aptly be described as a true “non event”. This Budget was more important for what it did not include, than for what it did. Read Full Article

John Kelly - Senior Business Analyst
Available from 01 Apr 2010

John is a skilled and experienced Business Analyst who is adaptable, resourceful, results-oriented and business-focused. He has worked for a range of companies, from large blue-chips through to small start-ups, on a wide variety of projects and systems.
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Liz Drysdale - Project Manager
Available immediately

Liz is a multi-skilled, energetic and highly capable manager with a demonstrable record of delivering quality, technical and business change projects and programmes to time and budget. Accomplished in building and maintaining effective relationships to ensure successful delivery, Liz is a confident and able manager who enjoys high level responsibility. Liz is self-motivated with an excellent ‘can-do' attitude with the ability to work alone, as part of a team and as a man manager.

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Paul Schlein- Lead Business Analyst (Oracle)
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Six years consulting experience in the IT industry has seen Paul work across a range of Industry Sectors including Public Sector, Health Care, Media, Technology and Transportation. This broad analyst background includes gathering requirements, creating and modifying business critical documents, process mapping, stakeholder management and leading UAT (User Acceptance Testing) across the full software development lifecycle.

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Adrian Pyne - Programme & Project Mgmt Consultant
Available immediately (commitment pending)

Adrian is a highly pragmatic, professional manager and leader. Starting from an IT development background, he has more than 15 years in the successful delivery of business transformation programmes and the build/operation of programme and project governance gained in both commercial and public sectors.

His commercial work has spanned; telecommunications, aviation, finance (retail, investment and lease), e-commerce, nano-technology and energy technologies. Within the public sector Adrian has worked extensively for the Department of Work of Pensions mostly on programme rescue, third party management and enterprise programme and portfolio management. In addition, Adrian has worked for the London Development Agency on programme management.

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Paul Searle - Senior Business Analyst
Available from 03 May 2010 (potentially)

A dynamic, creative and motivated business analyst with diverse experience primarily across mobile & fixed Telco environments and the utilities sector, with a strong focus on delivery and the ability to communicate articulately at all levels.

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