{"id":44830,"date":"2013-04-23T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kepner-tregoe.com\/about\/news\/kepner-tregoe-kt-and-dal-group-receive-highly-commended-recognition-at-2013-management-consultancies-association-mca-awards-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:20:24","slug":"kepner-tregoe-kt-and-dal-group-receive-highly-commended-recognition-at-2013-management-consultancies-association-mca-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/kepner-tregoe.com\/zh-hans\/about\/news\/kepner-tregoe-kt-and-dal-group-receive-highly-commended-recognition-at-2013-management-consultancies-association-mca-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepner-Tregoe (KT) and DAL Group Receive \u201cHighly Commended\u201d Recognition at 2013 Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Awards Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u201cDAL\u2019s Agri \u2013 Food business has been internationally recognized for our implementation of best practices across our company; these innovations would have been limited without an outside partner like KT coming in and helping us to think differently,\u201d said Ihab Daoud Abdellatif, managing director at DAL.\u00a0 \u201cWe congratulate KT on their recent MCA recognition and look forward to a long-term relationship with them.\u201d<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Highly prestigious awards recognize excellence in the U.K. consulting industry<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">PRINCETON, NJ (April <em>23<\/em>, 2013) \u2013Kepner-Tregoe (KT), the global capability development and consulting company, was recently recognized by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) with a \u201cHighly Commended\u201d designation in the Strategy category for their partnership with the DAL Group. The MCA Awards are widely acknowledged as the benchmark of quality within the U.K. consulting industry and are given out annually by the MCA, the representative body for management consultancy firms in the U.K. The awards recognize both team-based projects as well as individual consultants in several categories including change management, customer engagement, strategy, technology among others.<\/p>\n<p>Kepner-Tregoe\u2019s recognition was a result of their work with the DAL Group, Sudan\u2019s largest privately held commercial organization.\u00a0 KT worked with the client to design a move into agriculture\u2014a new and strategic sector for the largest and most diversified conglomerate in Sudan. As part of the assignment, KT took DAL\u2019s leaders through a strategic decision making process to determine what DAL Group\u2019s priorities should focus on in order to achieve an optimal entry into agriculture. Initial results from this strategy suggest clear signs of success with the development of an export market for locally grown alfalfa, the modernization of dairy production and the development of programs to support ground-nut and sorghum farming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us at Kepner-Tregoe are thrilled to be recognized by the MCA for our work with the DAL Group.\u00a0 The hard work and dedication from our teammates throughout the EMEA region is what continues to set our work apart,\u201d said Sam Bodley-Scott, principal and director of strategic consulting at KT. \u201cIt is truly an honor to receive these accolades alongside our esteemed consulting colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDAL\u2019s Agri \u2013 Food business has been internationally recognized for our implementation of best practices across our company; these innovations would have been limited without an outside partner like KT coming in and helping us to think differently,\u201d said Ihab Daoud Abdellatif, managing director at DAL.\u00a0 \u201cWe congratulate KT on their recent MCA recognition and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7946,"template":"","class_list":["post-44830","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kepner-Tregoe (KT) and DAL Group Receive \u201cHighly Commended\u201d Recognition at 2013 Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Awards Ceremony - Kepner-Tregoe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KT is pleased to announce our recent recognition at the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) awards ceremony. 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