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Atos Consulting
A Key Enabler for Business Transformation
Atos Consulting™ offers advice and a pragmatic, realistic approach to addressing client needs. It provides “end-to-end” services and solutions, ranging from supporting strategy development through to enterprise solutions and technology decisions. This enables our clients to become increasingly effective and to generate more value through an innovative approach to business processes, well-integrated supporting technologies and strategic investments in people.
Our consultants have an in-depth understanding of their clients and their businesses and a proven track record of delivering solutions in many industry sectors. By focusing on these specific industries, Atos Consulting™ ensures that all aspects of a client organisation – people, processes, and technology – are fully aligned with business strategy.
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case studies
Transforming patient care to end waiting and change livesA ground-breaking programme with the NHS has ended excessive waiting and helped thousands of patients get better care.
Making a sustainable difference in the hectic and complex environment of the NHS is notoriously difficult.
Yet a team from Atos Consulting has helped NHS South Central meet a Government target early to reduce patient waiting times...
Changing the face of rail ticket retailThe vision of National Express is to make travel simpler – and with a team from Atos Consulting, it is doing just that.
Atos Consulting helped National Express to create the first-ever directly controlled online sales channel between a UK rail operator and passengers.
As a result, National Express has lowered the cost of ticket sales, increased...
Transforming public services for the people of NigeriaA wide-ranging programme for the Department for International Development has helped the Nigerian government to rebuild essential services.
Between 2005 and 2008 Atos Consulting successfully implemented a £6.6 million programme for the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Presidency of Nigeria to start rebuilding the country’s...
Case StudyWINNER OF BEST PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECT, MCA MANAGEMENT AWARDS 2008
The Department for International DevelopmentPLATINUM WINNER,AND WINNER OF INNOVATION CATEGORY, MCA MANAGEMENT AWARDS 2007
Atos Consulting assisted the Government of Bangladesh in a major project, which was co-financed by DFID, the World Bank, and the Canadian International Development Agency to develop opportunities for public private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure. Atos Consulting led a consortium comprising PB Power and Baker & McKenzie amongst others to support...
Atos Consulting is managing a complex and large scale public finance reform programme in Bangladesh. Challenges, Solutions & Benefits Atos Consulting is managing a complex and large scale public finance reform programme in Bangladesh. We are working with the Ministry of Finance, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Financial Management Units (FMUs)...
Cement and Concrete ProducerA leading global producer and marketer of quality cement and ready-mix concrete products, working to provide building solutions for customers around the world and to create sustainable value for all their stakeholders.
BootsBoots, one of the best known retail names in the UK, committed to an ambitious programme to reduce costs by £100million, with £30 million of savings to come from procurement of indirect goods and services.
AstraZenecaOne of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, with a wide ranging product portfolio.
AstraZenecaAstraZeneca has a global policy of empowering local management teams. When the business found itself facing significant market pressure, it wanted to retain decentralisation but create consistent, transparent and accountable sales and marketing definitions and activities to integrate top-line growth and bottom-line costs.
Resolution Life Group (RLG)FINALIST OF BEST HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTANCY, MCA MANAGEMENT AWARDS 2008
A Global Investment BankA global Investment Bank, which is one of the world’s leading international financial service providers, with over 70,000 employees across more than 70 countries and assets of over €1,000 Billion. They rank among the global leaders in corporate banking and securities, transaction banking, asset management, and private wealth management,...
ABN AMROABN AMRO is one of the world’s leading banks. The retail part of the Bank is the largest in the Netherlands and is served by more than 550 branches and 80 plus advisory offices based throughout the country providing a range of products and services for personal customers.
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Evidence is increasing that the global recession is having a particularly strong effect on the world’s poorer countries, which have fewer ways to protect themselves. The World Bank has predicted that 53 million more people will fall into poverty in 2009 (defined as subsistence living on less than 1.25 dollars a day), which comes on top of “soaring...
The 2009 Budget on 22 April confirmed the worrying state of public finances in the UK and has major implications for spending in the public sector over coming years. The growth in the National Debt and contraction of the economy will eventually mean that either tax will be raised or public spending reduced, or possibly both. Reduction in...
The world has changed in the short time between the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Reports in 2007 and 2008. In October 2007, he described an economy continuing to grow strongly and a Government meeting its strict fiscal rules setting out priorities to support sustainable growth and prosperity. But by November 2008, in the wake of the worst global financial...
Atos Consulting, offers its top ten tips to businesses as they enter 2009 on how they can improve business performance without jeopardising the long-term objectives of the organisation. Paula Sussex, CEO of Atos Consulting said: “More than ever before, businesses need to find innovative ways of improving performance.
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Organisations are continually under pressure to control the amount they spend on IT, but never more so than in the current downturn as organisations look to curtail investment programmes and reduce costs. However IT cost reductions should always be approached with value in mind; if cutting IT costs destroys business value, for example through...
As the recession begins to bite, all companies will be looking to make significant improvements in cash flow and operating margins with varying focus on the level and timescales for benefits realisation. All will have a variety of improvement projects ongoing at any time, the essential questions will be focused on the following: are we doing the right...
2009 will be a year of challenges and opportunities for Procurement. Should Directors be keeping with the procurement strategy developed in 2008 or should they abandon it for the tactical activities that the business may well be pushing for?
In tough times with a declining demand profile businesses need to focus on profit, cash flow and management...
Over recent years businesses have responded to growth in demand and price pressure by exploiting global manufacturing and supplier advantages. However the drawback of this globalisation agenda is longer lead times, heavy reliance on logistics and weaker single sourced supplier relationships, but in a growth cycle these were accepted.
In the current...
In the current economic climate, it is imperative that a business that is struggling develops a rapid response plan in order for it to survive. Our latest Expert Opinion sets out the steps businesses must take during a turnaround period.
Turning around an organisation that is struggling is neither straightforward nor without pain. ...
Liquidity crises are a recurring feature of every financial market and in 2007 it was the turn of the credit markets.
The ‘Credit Crunch’, also known as the sub-prime mortgage crisis, banking crisis or liquidity crisis, exhibits similarities to and also differences from previous crises. The market impact is substantial, with losses...
In today’s rapidly changing economic climate many executives are facing an acute dilemma. Among many other priorities, how do they make the people changes that they feel are necessary to rapidly improve performance whilst maintaining employee motivation and engagement?
There is now a wealth of evidence linking business performance and employee...
Most businesses now believe that an economic downturn in the UK is now less a case of 'if', or 'when' but a reality. With a regular swirl of economic and market statistics, media stories and rumours circulating, what clear steps can businesses take to prepare themselves for the uncertain times ahead?
Atos Consulting’s team provide insight...
Organisations are under unprecedented pressure to reduce costs and sustain their business in the downturn, yet there will be some organisations that will outperform their peers by taking advantage of new technologies and grasping the opportunities that these uncertain times will bring. To meet this operational survival challenge – of how...
Starting up Shared Services is an enormous challenge at the best of times and an uncertain 2009 makes it even harder. On the other hand, the drivers for Shared Services – and doing it right – are stronger and more valid.
The challenge for ‘start-ups’ is getting approval for a business case in challenging economic times, when...
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