Deloitte moved ahead of its competitors and scooped an impressive selection of industry accolades for Best Management Practice at the 9th Management Consultancy Association (MCA) awards.

The awards celebrate outstanding achievement by consultancies and their clients. The entries submitted for 2005 included a wide variety of projects in terms of scale and geographical spread, which meant competition was tough.

Commenting on Deloitte’s success at this year’s event, David Owen, head of the UK consultancy practice said: “We are delighted with the results, winning three awards is particularly satisfying. These accolades are a testament to the strength of our client teams across the three business areas.”

This year three Deloitte teams were rewarded for their exceptional dedication to business improvement. These included:

Silver award: Electronic Trading
The London Borough of Harringey needed to transform its website and bring it into the 21st century. The local council was looking create an information hub for its local residents and keep them informed and up-to-date with accurate information all year round. The challenge was to deliver a fully functional site in 12 weeks. Deloitte developed and implemented a content management system to enable over 100 employees to contribute information to the site quickly and easily. The council’s site had not previously been listed in the Top 250 Public Sector Forum’s league table, following the radical overhaul it is ranked 15th and is also first council website to receive an AAA rating for accessibility.

Bronze award: Human Resources
Britvic wanted to make itself “a great place to work”.  To do that it decided to change the way it rewarded employees and introduce a flexible benefits system for all staff regardless of seniority.  Deloitte helped address the key challenges it faced, most notably the definition of benefits which will be valued by staff, and enable staff to understand the benefit options and make informed choices. Within three months the transformation was complete. As a result, take-up was almost 100%, over twice the national average and benefit spend was over four times the national. 

Bronze award: Marketing
In a move to become established as a communications technology solutions provider, BT wanted to increase its presence in the middle market. It wanted to develop a sales tool to quickly understand customer’s ICT costs and equip its sales force to explain to customers, how BT could radically cut those costs. Within three months and with Deloitte’s help, BT had a ‘total cost of ownership’ model which lead to a £30 million project for BT.

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