Sponsors

Acando - sponsoring Project Manager of the Year

Acando is a Global Business Management and IT Consultancy company that identifies and implements sustainable business improvements through information enabled by technology. Our head office is based in Stockholm, Sweden and as a group we operate out of 7 countries in 19 offices; with a turnover of over 135 million Euros, we employ over 1,100 professional consultants across the group.

In the UK we deliver Project and Programme Management services. Our consultants hold over 10 years of experience and are PRINCE2 qualified providing expertise in all stages of an IT project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on 3 core values:

• Firstly, our quality. From our ISO certification to our quality audits (internally and on our client projects), our services do what we say they will.
• Secondly, our experience. We are currently managing over £1bn of customer projects and all of our consultants have at least 10 years of experience in their field.
• And finally, our focus on delivery. We are entirely focused on making sure the projects we deliver hit the business objective of the client.

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 Aikona - sponsoring Young Project Manager of the Year

Aikona is one of the UK’s largest and strongest organisations offering learning and development services to the project and programme management industry.

The comprehensive learning environment offered by Aikona gives professionals the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to deliver projects and programmes – on time, on budget and with targeted benefits.

We offer a wide range of tailored corporate solutions and a comprehensive open schedule of accredited project and programme management training, covering core skills, and more specialised professional development courses, for individuals and organisations. All leading qualifications are offered, and our modular course structures mean that one qualification course can contribute training to a number of others.

Our courses are offered in a variety of formats; classroom, online, through paper or CD distance learning, or through your company intranet. You can choose to mix different formats within a single course, or create a tailored personal or corporate programme by selecting from our list of training topics.

Our value-added corporate solutions include, career development pathways, exam readiness tests, and both knowledge and competence assessments. We are specialists in bridging the competence gap for individuals, and we improve corporate project and programme management capability.

Aikona is the preferred supplier to many national and international organisations, working in close partnership with clients to provide the highest standard of service, built from cost-effective solutions and continuous innovation.

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BAE Systems - sponsoring Academic Awards
“Advancing project management professionalism through education.”

BAE Systems is a global defence and security company with approximately 100,000 employees worldwide. The company delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and support services.

• 2nd largest global defence company based on 2010 revenues
• Global capability
• Customers in more than 100 countries
• 2010 sales of £22.4 billion

BAE Systems are proud to continue supporting the APM awards which recognise the very best of project management professionalism throughout our industry. The APM is focused on standards, best practices and continuous improvement and BAE Systems are committed to supporting the development of the project management profession.

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BNFL - sponsoring the BNFL Award

BNFL has played a full and active role in West Cumbria since the company was founded in 1972.  The organisation and its employees have made a significant contribution to the social and economic life of the community and earned a reputation for corporate responsibility based on sincerely held values.

BNFL’s reach extended to a widely diverse range of activities, focussing on economic regeneration, education and support for hard-to-tackle issues. The underlying philosophy was to help move the West Cumbrian community away from dependency on the nuclear industry into a more entrepreneurial culture.

BNFL’s community programmes will leave a legacy in West Cumbria that will continue to make a positive impact on the lives of those who live there. As part of its legacy, BNFL has pledged to support the APM Project Management Awards.

The BNFL Award will demonstrate the contribution project management can have on society – environmental sustainability being a key component.

Fujitsu - sponsoring International Relief and Development Award

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

Fujitsu UK and Ireland is a leading IT systems, services and products company employing 14,000 people with an annual revenue of £2 billion.  Its business is in enabling its customers to realise their objectives by exploiting information technology through its integrated product and service portfolio. This includes consulting, applications, systems integration, managed services and product for customers in the private and public sectors including retail, financial services, telecoms, government, defence and consumer sectors.

Fujitsu UK and Ireland is proud to sponsor the International Relief and Development Award

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Hiscox and Lovat Insurance Brokers - joint sponsorship of Project Management Company of the Year Award

Hiscox are experts in insuring people and businesses with unusual and often complicated needs. Who we insure is more important that what we insure.

A FTSE 250 company with offices across 11 countries, Hiscox Insurance Company Limited has an A (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best and an A (Strong) rating from Standard and Poor's.

When it comes to business insurance, our specialist knowledge allows us to design flexible cover suited to the specific risks of a particular industry. For project managers this means we can provide:

• Full civil liability policies
• Mitigation of loss cover
• Breach of contract cover (subject to criteria)

Hiscox are very happy to be working with Lovat Insurance Brokers to offer APM members professional indemnity insurance tailored to meet the needs of the industry in which they work. For example this means that project managers working in the IT sector and construction industry receive different products to best meet their needs. Each policy is designed to protect your reputation and relationships with your clients.

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Lovat Insurance Brokers Limited has been established for over 25 years and is one of the few truly independent insurance brokers in the UK. Whilst being independent we have the strength of being part of the Bestinvest Group of Companies who offer a range of investment services. Recent awards that Bestinvest have won include the 2011 Money Marketing award for ‘Best Discretionary Investment Manager’ and the 2010 award for ‘Best Investment Adviser.

At Lovat we have dedicated teams who deal with Private Clients, Large Commercial, SME and Schemes which means that whatever your insurance requirements we are there for you. Allied to this, our risk management approach ensures any insurance programme we recommend is tailored to the requirements of our clients. We take great pride in ensuring our service to both new and existing clients is always to an exacting standard.

Lovat Insurance Brokers are offering a bespoke Professional Indemnity product to Project Managers in conjunction with Hiscox and we are looking forward to working with you in the future.

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Program Framework - sponsoring Programme of the Year

Program Framework specialises in creating or improving clients’ capability in portfolio, programme, or project management. Key to this is the alignment of people, processes and technology with the vision, strategy, culture and governance of the organisation either holistically or in a specific area.

Advisory: to define or refine your vision, strategy, culture, governance, people skills or processes. 
Consultancy: to provide expert capability such as Project Management Organisations or Interim Programme Leaders.
Technology: to define and deliver world leading technology solutions onsite or cloud based.

The quality of our work is driven by the quality of our people. We employ only experts with real world experience across a wide range of public and private sector organisation.

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Siemens - sponsoring Project of the Year

Siemens was established in the United Kingdom over 160 years ago and today employs over 20,000 people in the UK alone, with more than 460,000 employees worldwide.

With a proud history of innovation, engineering and manufacturing; Siemens remains committed in providing innovative, high-quality services and solutions to customers across a diverse range of industry sectors; these include power and distribution, automation and control, information and communications, medical, transportation, lighting, and household. There are few aspects of our working or everyday lives that Siemens products, services or solutions, do not touch.

In fiscal year 2006 Siemens' UK revenues were £3.5 billion which included exports of almost £600 million.

Siemens has offices and factories throughout the UK, with its headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. The company’s global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.

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Project - sponsoring Community Project of the Year

Project is the leading UK publication for project professionals and the voice of project management. Published ten times a year, it is distributed free to all individual and corporate members together with Network, the APM membership newsletter. Project is read in more than 70 countries around the world.

Project is the independent voice of project management. It contains the latest news, views and techniques in project management, special themed features and case studies promoting the profession of project management.

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