Case Studies

PSC's capabilities and track record is illustrated by our history of engagements with the European Space Agency (ESA), BP and several of its prior operating companies, and the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) as well as more than 100 other client engagements over the past 25 years.

Featured Case Studies

In the period 1987 - 1994, PSC performed a series of assignments for the European Space Agency (ESA) – www.esa.int - on the Columbus Programme Management System (CPMS); on the Science Projects Programme Management Information System (PMIS); and for the Coordination & Monitoring Office at Headquarters, developing the system for Quarterly Reporting to Council.

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PSC’s long track record of engagements with BP - www.bp.com - began with our assignment in 1983 with Sohio Alaska (San Francisco and North Slope, Alaska). This was a multi-phase, turnkey assignment to supply a Project Management System for Sohio’s US $8 billion North Slope Project; then provide a Project Control Service in support of Sohio’s management of the Prime Contractor (Fluor Engineers & Constructors) and the Sea Lift Program; and subsequently contract on-site System Support Services for the operation of the Sohio’s North Slope Project Control System.

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The increasing technical complexity, the cost and risks in delivering defense programs and the overarching requirement for interoperability are causing governments and industry to adopt a collaborative business model. This emerging business environment is characterized by multi-company, multi-national contracts and teaming agreements, international program management offices with global supply chains, and the outsourcing of information technology (IT) support services (see www.tscp.org).

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Case Studies

AEA Technology

AEA Technology plc – www.aeat.co.uk - is one of Europe's leading environmental consultancy and technology companies, with a strong focus on Environment, Rail and Nuclear industries. PSC completed a series of five assignments with AEAT over a two-year period.

General Electric - Aerospace Business Group

GE Aerospace (17 divisions, 58,000 staff, $5.8 billion turnover – now a part of the Lockheed Martin Company). Competing against Big 6 Consultants, PSC took the lead role on GE Aerospace’s PMS Convergence Project, which was one of five elements of their Convergence Program. Our responsibility and workscope was a 33 month turnkey engagement to architect and implement the uniform Convergence Program Management process and supporting toolset across all 17 Divisions of GE’s Aerospace Business Group. (The other Convergence Projects focused on Finance, HR, Procurement and New Business).

GlaxoSmithKline

inn-vision (then trading as Performance Advantage) and PSC began working with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2000. We secured an assignment within the European Clinical Development and Medical Affairs (CDMA) division to develop a balanced scorecard and associated performance management processes. CDMA represented a uniquely complex organizational problem as each country and therapeutic area had its own objectives with little cross-functional visibility at the divisional level. The management board was large and diverse with English not the first language of many of the participants.

IBM Schweiz

By the late 1980’s, PSC’s highly-successful MAX Project Management Applications based on Metier’s ARTEMIS was a mature product and needed to be re-platformed. We selected IBM as our new partner and AS (IBM’s decision support product) and DB2 (IBM’s database product) as the new platform for our product, Impact 2000.

NASA International Space Station

PSC’s extensive and multi-year involvement with the International Space Station began – appropriately – with the NASA Shuttle Program. We first won a crucial engagement with Lockheed Engineering & Technology (Houston, Texas) as a full Team Member on Lockheed’s Proposal to NASA for the Space Transportation Systems Operations Contract (STSOC) - Shuttle Operations from launch at the Kennedy Space Centre to its landing.

Virgin Group

Virgin Life Care (VLC) – www.virginlifecare.com – part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, is a Health Care start-up in the United States, with an established business operating in South Africa. Four members of the PSC Team have been closely involved in this business since 2003, before its acquisition by the Virgin Group. We set up the initial organization constructs and structures for the Company, coordinated the Business Plan and helped secure first and second stage financing from Virgin.

Various Bio-tech & Energy Projects in Malta

In 2002 - 2004, PSC, together with other Team members including Elvingston Science Centre, Simpson Research, Technology for Industry and BioMedical Business Partners, undertook a series of assignments in the bio-tech and energy sectors, focused primarily on Malta.