PA Consulting Enhances Global Innovation and Product Design Capability Through Acquisition of Essential Design

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

PA Consulting (PA), a global innovation and transformation
consultancy that's bringing ingenuity to life, announced today that
it has acquired Essential Design (http://www.essentialdesign.com)
(Essential), a Boston-based innovation strategy and product design
business. Essential are experts in user-centred design, improving
customer experiences and driving innovation to market.

Essential complements PA's global capabilities in strategy,
innovation, product design and engineering and manufacturing process
improvement. PA's team supports world-leading innovations such as
Virgin Hyperloop One's reinvention of transportation, Skipping Rocks
Lab's efforts to create sustainable plastic alternatives, and Monica
Healthcare's quest to save lives of unborn babies through innovative
monitoring.

Formed in 2001, Essential has flagship clients in the consumer,
life science and healthcare sectors. Its diverse team of researchers,
designers and engineers inform and translate innovation strategy, to
create breakthrough physical and digital products. Essential's work
has won international recognition and received numerous industry
awards for excellence in design research, design strategy and design
development.

In a world where strategies, technologies and innovation collide,
the combination of PA's and Essential's capabilities will enable
organisations to transform the way they bring new products and
experiences to market. The acquisition provides PA with a new centre
of excellence for innovation and product design in the United States,
which will work in partnership with PA's long established Global
Innovation and Technology Centre in Cambridge, UK.

Frazer Bennett, PA Consulting's Chief Innovation Officer, said:
"We are delighted to welcome Essential Design to PA Consulting. Their
team is passionate about understanding and empowering people;
creating design-led visions that inspire change. This fits perfectly
with PA Consulting's Purpose: 'We believe in the power of ingenuity
to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world'. As
well as enhancing our US presence, the brilliant Essential team will
extend our capabilities at the front-end of design, bringing our
clients' customers a world of ingenuous opportunities."

Essential Design's founding partners, Scott Stropkay and Richard
Watson, said: "We're very much looking forward to joining PA
Consulting. Their range of expertise, commitment to client success
and unique ability to deliver innovative physical and digital
solutions, building the futures we both imagine, is awesome. Becoming
part of PA Consulting allows us to design more comprehensively,
affecting more positive change for our clients."

The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Notes to editors

About PA Consulting

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we believe in the
power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a
technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we turn
complexity into opportunity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and
breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients
adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 2,600 specialists in consumer, defence and security,
energy and utilities, financial services, government, healthcare,
life sciences, manufacturing, and transport, travel and logistics.
And we operate globally from offices across the Americas, Europe, the
Nordics and the Gulf.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

http://www.paconsulting.com

About Essential Design

We are a diverse team of researchers, designers, and engineers who
inform and translate strategy to create breakthrough physical
products, digital products, and service design solutions. By
leveraging our teams' diverse expertise, we develop a deep
understanding of stakeholder needs, uncover compelling opportunities
for innovation, and precisely align priorities.

Essential Design has become a leading innovation strategy & design
consultancy known for delivering meaningful end-user and business
value. Empowering people through design.

https://www.essentialdesign.com/

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