Driving economic growth
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Attracting Innovators: Patent Box
During the consultation into the proposed new Patent Box legislation, we brought together HM Revenue & Customs and HM Treasury policy makers, accountants, lawyers and R&D directors in our iZone to debate how the new tax relief should work.
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Leading on insights: Deloitte CFO Survey
Our survey of CFO opinion has gained a reputation as a reliable and influential snapshot of business attitudes, providing insights which feed directly into the briefings for the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.
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Tracking rights in a digital age: Global Repertoire Database
In response to the digital revolution, Deloitte is helping the music industry to regain control over its most important assets through our work on the Global Repertoire Database – a single, authoritative view of all songs, for all territories, and for all uses. We’ve achieved an unprecedented level of cross-industry collaboration and openness including engagement of over 80 organisations and more than 450 individuals across six continents.
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An agile giant: Deloitte Analytics - NHS
The NHS is one of the world’s largest employers with over 1.2m permanent staff with a wide variety of skills and experiences. Our work with the NHS has supported the planning, modelling and risk management of this workforce. It is enabling them to monitor workforce risk, identify areas of risk early, and take appropriate action in a timely fashion to improve overall service quality and safety.
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A refreshing customer experience: Diageo
Deloitte’s work on a web ordering platform and sales force optimisation has brought a consumer feel and ease of use for customers and distributors, providing a new digital channel for the world’s largest drinks company, Diageo.
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Finance transformation: RWE npower
At a time of rapid change, our Finance Transformation team has worked with RWE npower to transform its finance function and adapt to the evolving role of the CFO, delivering a 30 per cent reduction in costs.
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Weetabix Food Company
A multi-office, cross-service-line Deloitte team helped the Bright Food Group to acquire a 60 per cent interest in the Weetabix Food Company in the largest-ever overseas deal by a Chinese food group.
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Human Resources Transformation: Global Healthcare
Over a three year period, more than 200 consultants from member firms in 20 countries worked with a Global Healthcare Client to transform its HR organisation. The new HR service delivery model now supports approximately 90,000 employees globally, across 26 countries with support being provided in 11 different languages.
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Taxing Global Mobility: Sony Electronics
Sony Electronics has more than 900 internationally assigned employees working in different jurisdictions, all of whom must comply with their tax obligations both at home and abroad. Deloitte is working with Sony and its assignees to ensure they are meeting their tax obligations and compliance responsibilities in both home and host locations.
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Building a legacy: iCITY
Deloitte is helping to deliver a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic Games for local residents, local businesses and the UK, through our work on the successful iCITY bid to transform the Press and Broadcast Centres into a world-class centre of innovation and enterprise, creating more than 4,000 jobs in East London.
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Accelerating the fastest: Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 - CSR
Our UK Technology Fast 50 is a ranking of the UK’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies, giving the sector’s potential future stars profile and endorsement at a critical time in their development. CSR plc, a former Fast 50 winner, is a great example of a SME that has gone from strength to strength. It was first listed in the UK Fast 50 in 2005, placing second with a growth rate of 5,512 per cent, six years after it was founded in 1999.
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Boosting SME Finance: Deloitte’s involvement in the Breedon Report
James Douglas, a partner in our Debt Advisory group, was appointed to the Breedon Taskforce in January 2012 to explore ways of boosting finance available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK.
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Envisioning a brighter future: London Legacy Development Corporation
One of the many great success stories of London 2012 is the development it has brought to East London and it was this economic renewal that was at the heart of Deloitte’s support for London 2012. We’ve been involved with this project for almost a decade – from advising on the legacy plans that gave confidence in London’s bid to negotiating the contracts with the businesses that will run the 500-acre Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, including how local people will benefit.
Investing in higher value skills
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Tomorrow’s leaders today: Next Generation CFO Development programme
Our Next Generation CFO Development programme is helping to bring on and prepare a new cadre of talented financial leaders at some of the UK’s largest organisations – among them John Rogers, CFO at Sainsbury’s Plc.
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Deloitte Academy ‘Navigating the Boardroom: Women on Boards’ programme
Deloitte is using its professional skills and harnessing those of the wider business community to help prepare women for Board-level roles to address the long-standing gender imbalance at the top of UK business. Nearly 40 senior women have already taken part in our Deloitte Academy ‘Navigating the Boardroom - Women on Boards’ programme.
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Delivering London 2012: LOCOG secondment
Gavin McAlpine, Senior Manager in our Consulting practice, has helped to deliver one of the most complex and high-profile projects available anywhere as head of the Testing & Exercising Team at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).
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Networking works: Senior Manager Milestone course
“The 'Senior Manager Milestone' training course changed the way I see clients, the other people around me and the way I approach my work. The course put me in a better position to lead and helped me understand my clients better – to be more focused around their needs. It was an amazing experience that taught me how to operate outside of my silo”
Daniel Lovatt, Assistant Director, Drivers Jonas Deloitte
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Breaking the taboo: Mental Health Champions
Deloitte Partner, John Binns, himself a former depression sufferer, has developed a programme of initiatives to ensure colleagues feel supported and seek help before their symptoms worsen. We’ve trained nine of our partners as ‘‘Mental Health Champions" and they have supported around 50 people this year.
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Promoting job readiness: Deloitte Employability Initiative
Since 2001, more than 20,000 young people have completed a certified Deloitte Employability Course and 800 teachers across the UK have been trained to deliver this groundbreaking job-readiness training. In the face of continued, rising youth unemployment, we are now enhancing and scaling the programme by partnering with the Pearson Group Plc, the world’s leading education company.
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Recognising talent early: BrightStart
BrightStart recognises that a university education isn’t for everyone, and instead, enables bright A-level students to make the choice that suits them and to get a head start on gaining full professional business qualifications.
Commitment to sustainability
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Roadmap to sustainability: FTSE100 Retailer
Our Sustainability Services practice worked with a major FTSE100 retailer to create a practical roadmap that will deliver dramatic and rapid results against challenging sustainability targets, including zero carbon by 2030 and 20 per cent energy savings with a return on investment in under two years, and assess how to deliver up to £200m savings over the next ten years.
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Leading the debate: ReImagining Business
At The World Economic Forum’s annual summit at Davos in January 2012, we launched our thought leadership ReImagining Business to drive the debate on the role of business in society.
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Winning Gold in sustainability: LOCOG Sustainability
Sustainability has always been a key goal of the London 2012 Games and Deloitte, as a key partner, has played a vital role in helping LOCOG deliver on its promises in this area, in particular, setting new sustainability standards for its procurement programme.
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Leading the way on transparency: International Integrated Reporting Council
We promote openness, accountability and transparency in reporting for our clients and apply the same rigour to our own reporting. By participating in the IIRC pilot programme, we are helping to develop the future framework for corporate reporting.
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Planning for sustainable growth: UK Green Building Council
Working with the UK Green Building Council we have supported organisations to break free from conventional thinking in considering how to deliver high-value, low-carbon and sustainable growth opportunities in a resource restrained world.
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Creating a Sustainable Workspace: Reading office
This year, we embarked on major office refurbishments, aiming for high standards of sustainable design for our Reading office, which recently achieved an ‘Excellent’ rating under BREEAM, the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings.
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Supporting conservation: Deloitte Rainforest Conservation Project
The Deloitte Rainforest Conservation Project, has helped to protect 3,350 hectares of bio-diverse rainforest, planted 1m trees, and supported the training of 172 teachers in environmental education and 165 farmers in conservation agriculture.
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Realising the legacy: Business in the Community’s arc programme
Deloitte is a founding partner of Business in the Community’s arc programme, which is bringing together London 2012 sponsors to create a social legacy for the Olympic host boroughs by stimulating the creation and growth of financially sustainable social enterprises that will provide employment for 1,000 local people.
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Tackling long-term unemployment: partnership with Ingeus
In 2011, Deloitte entered into a groundbreaking partnership with leading employability services provider, Ingeus. In addition to the business potential, we saw an opportunity to create a lasting impact on the lives of the long-term unemployed. By combining the proven employability experience of Ingeus, with Deloitte’s expertise in delivering many of the public sector’s most innovative and challenging projects, we have achieved an enormous amount. In the last year, tens of thousands of people have already been supported into employment.
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Turning up the volume: Social Innovation Pioneers
From over 330 applications, 30 socially innovative businesses, carefully selected, are now benefiting from the experience of some of our best people who are helping these businesses to mainstream and scale their impact.
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Backing future winners: Deloitte Disability Sport
The Deloitte Disability Sport programme is helping the British Paralympic Association reshape the landscape of disability sport forever. To date, over 500 young disabled athletes have benefited from our investment – including 75 of ParalympicsGB this year.
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Making it happen: Help for Heroes’ Tedworth House
Deloitte has used its expertise in strategy, real estate, project management and IT consultancy – as well as a massive Deloitte volunteer fundraising effort – to bring Help for Heroes’ flagship Tedworth House project to fruition on time and on budget.
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Repairing communities: The High Street Fund
In the aftermath of the London riots in 2011, Deloitte helped to establish and administer the High Street Fund, which raised £3.5m to provide emergency hardship relief to the small businesses affected. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, paid tribute at Deloitte to the “speed, compassion and generosity” that gave access to emergency funds for those firms affected by the riots.
