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Kearney appoints 9 partners across offices in 5 European countries

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Kearney appoints 9 partners across offices in 5 European countries

Global management consulting firm Kearney has appointed nine new partners across its European footprint.

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Shintaro Okuno appointed as Chairman of Bain & Company Japan Incorporated

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Shintaro Okuno appointed as Chairman of Bain & Company Japan Incorporated

Bain & Company is continuing to make bold moves to invest in the Japan market. At the beginning of 2022, the firm announced global veteran Dave Michels as the new Japan Representative, part of its multi-year effort to direct the firm’s best talent and resources to the growing Japanese market.

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Asia-Pacific Recorded US$27.5 Billion Fintech Investment in 2021

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Asia-Pacific Recorded US$27.5 Billion Fintech Investment in 2021

KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech H2’21 highlights that fintech investment in the Asia-Pacific region reached US$27.5 billion in 2021 across a record 1,165 deals.

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According to Deloitte’s Women in the Boardroom report, gender parity could be achieved by 2045

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According to Deloitte’s Women in the Boardroom report, gender parity could be achieved by 2045

Deloitte Global’s Women in the Boardroom report reveals slow gender progress on boards. However, the pace of change is nevertheless accelerating.

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Bain & Company and NielsenIQ Launch New Report on Driving Profitable Growth in the Middle East in the New Normal

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Bain & Company and NielsenIQ Launch New Report on Driving Profitable Growth in the Middle East in the New Normal

Announcing the launch of our comprehensive new report, written in collaboration with NielsenIQ, an Advent International portfolio company, Bain & Company Middle East highlights how companies operating in the Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) have been facing unprecedented challenges in recent years

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Accenture announces investment in virtual learning company Talespin

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Accenture announces investment in virtual learning company Talespin

Global IT consulting company Accenture has unveiled its latest strategic investment, this time providing money to spatial computing company Talespin. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project

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Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project

Workday has pocketed a £9.8m contract for the second phase in an ERP project intended to improve efficiency in finance and HR management at the UK's Student Loans Company (SLC).

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Highest number of European non-bank deals for a decade

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Highest number of European non-bank deals for a decade

Last year resulted in the highest number of direct lending deals since Deloitte began tracking private debt markets in 2012. According to the latest Alternative Lender Deal Tracker, 2021 saw 785 deals completed, a year-on-year increase of 89% compared to 415 deals in 2020. In addition, the 217 deals completed in Q4 2021 was just short of the quarterly record in Q3 2021 of 226 deals.

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Roland-Garros and Infosys Extend Digital Innovation Partnership for Another Five Years

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Roland-Garros and Infosys Extend Digital Innovation Partnership for Another Five Years

Infosys a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, and Roland-Garros (RG), announced the renewal of their three-year long partnership for a further five years.

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Lighthouse by BCG and Unacast Partner to Produce Holistic and Custom Human Mobility Data Solutions

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Lighthouse by BCG and Unacast Partner to Produce Holistic and Custom Human Mobility Data Solutions

The global data location market is both young and complex. A significant barrier to access for many end clients—including retailers, restaurateurs, investors, supply chain organizations, and others—is the fractured nature of the market, specifically, the need to acquire data from one source and consulting and solutions execution from another. Today, Unacast, a leading global location data and analytics company, and Lighthouse by BCG, Boston Consulting Group’s high-frequency data and analytics platform, announced the formation of a strategic partnership that will provide a holistic way to access data, services, and custom solutions all in one place.

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Bain & Company and NielsenIQ Launch New Report on Driving Profitable Growth in the Middle East in the New Normal

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Bain & Company and NielsenIQ Launch New Report on Driving Profitable Growth in the Middle East in the New Normal

A significant slowdown in market growth and global rise in raw materials and transportation prices have led to an intense fight among players to gain market share. Due to changes in customers’ needs, the business model once proven for the region is no longer relevant

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Benefits of ERP cloud migration need reality check

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Benefits of ERP cloud migration need reality check

Moving enterprise systems like ERP to the cloud can ease system management and lower costs, but companies need to be strategic in their approach to reap the benefits.

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Consilium and SAP Embark on Partnership to Accelerate CX Technology Initiatives

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Consilium and SAP Embark on Partnership to Accelerate CX Technology Initiatives

Consilium Software, a world-leading provider of customer engagement solutions, today announced the launch of a higher level of partnership with SAP, a global leader in enterprise application software solutions. With the new agreement, Consilium becomes a SAP PartnerEdge partner, providing both companies a gateway to create new markets, accelerate innovation, and deliver customer success. The partnership enables Consilium as an independent software vendor (ISV) to advance the design, development, and commercialization of its software and direct integrated solutions using APIs from SAP software business applications.

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Why organisations need to ‘tread carefully’ when it comes to their SAP Cloud migration

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Why organisations need to ‘tread carefully’ when it comes to their SAP Cloud migration

The path to Cloud migration for enterprise organisations can appear long, often convoluted, and beset with occasional potholes, pitfalls and perhaps even a few pitchforks. The most prudent organisations often gravitate towards professional services consultants and service providers to manage their migration journeys.

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IIFL AMC fund acquires minority stake in OmniActive Health Technologies

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IIFL AMC fund acquires minority stake in OmniActive Health Technologies

Nutraceutical maker OmniActive Health Technologies said that IIFL Asset Management Limited (IIFL) has acquired a minority stake in the company. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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McKinsey acquires IncepTech, deepening software engineering and technology capabilities in Europe

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McKinsey acquires IncepTech, deepening software engineering and technology capabilities in Europe

Gyorgy is the founder of IncepTech, a firm that develops digital products and businesses. He and his partners Daniel Schay and Aron Antal are all McKinsey alumni, and they bring their team of 60+ experts—along with their transformative powers in software engineering, digital expertise, and business building—to McKinsey Digital month

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Boston Consulting Group, Accenture top recruiters at IIMA this year

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Boston Consulting Group, Accenture top recruiters at IIMA this year

The Boston Consulting Group and Accenture made the maximum number of offers among the 190 firms that participated in the final placement process for the MBA class of 2022 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in management at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA).

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Regulating crypto assets continues to be a tough feat

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Regulating crypto assets continues to be a tough feat

The introduction of any innovative technology always comes with numerous challenges. Technological innovations such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning raise new problems that existing laws do not address, and the emergence of crypto assets has been no different.

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Connor Curran joins Kroll as a Director in its Abu Dhabi office

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Connor Curran joins Kroll as a Director in its Abu Dhabi office

Global management consulting firm Kroll has welcomed Connor Curran to its Expert Services practice in the Middle East.

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2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers

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2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2021 version of its Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers. According to Gartner, data and analytics stakeholders are increasingly searching for help to re-engineer their data-driven insight generation

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