"Having good market intelligence is no longer optional in this day and age"
Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
The 2018 European Championships organisation has appointed Atos as the first official supporter of the event, to which it will supply Timing, Scoring and Results technology, as well as television graphics services. The firm brings more than 20 years of experience supporting top sporting events with similar services to the event.
In a bid to improve traffic flows around Brussels, as well as offer addition transportation options, the Flemish Region has commissioned Arcadis and Sweco to complete the design for the redevelopment plans for the northern part of the road. Deloitte has been appointed the tax and financing partner for the €3 million per annum project.
Alecta, a Swedish insurance firm, has appointed CGI as its IT modernisation vendor. CGI will deliver a range of IT related services, for the five year contract valued at around €33 million.
“Fake-news” hits oil markets, volatility due to data crunching agencies? EIA report contrasts API, OPEC on backburner?
Fjord, Accenture's design studio, has joined Accenture's Dublin The Dock Innovation hub. The studio's new office will be run by Design Director and Studio lead Lorna Ross, the former Director of Design at the Mayo Clinic.
To develop Singapore's Jurong Lake District, Arup has been selected as part of a consortium of firms to create a development master plan. The firm will provide a range of consultancy expertise to the project, with a public exhibition of plans set for midway through 2017.
The accelerated development of the North of England – dubbed the Northern Powerhouse – has hit the roadblock of a lack of clear strategy, finds a recent BDO analysis. To make concrete moves to bolster the area, Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a more material regional strategy and released more than £550 million in funding.
These are tough times for firms in the management consulting industry, who must embrace change and quickly adapt to the changing landscape in order to retain clients in a newly digitised world.
Accenture recently opened its The Dock research and incubation hub in Dublin's Silicon Docks. The 60,000 square-foot building will house around 300 professions from the firm by year's end, and is focused on bringing together a range of stakeholders, from startups to academia, to create the disruptive ideas of tomorrow.
Altran has acquired India-based specialist engineering firm Pricol Technologies. The acquisition boosts the firm's capability in the rapid prototyping space, adds around 520 staff to the firm as well as a number of proprietary technologies and processes. The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
Cognizant has expanded its Hong Kong presence with an additional office, allowing the firm to better serve its regional client base. The firm will be actively recruiting from local institutions to boost the capabilities, as well as leveraging the hub's time zone to support its Asia Pacific clients more generally.
Nine out of ten executives in the financial services sector say that by 2026 blockchain will be a mainstream part of strategies and operations.
The UK faces increased risk from storm damage, including large scale flooding events, as extreme weather intensifies. To more accurately predict key weather events, as well as create user friendly outputs for key stakeholders, the Environment Agency has hired CGI to create a Future Flood Forecasting System. The contract runs for three years and is valued at £5 million.
It’s always been important to hire the best people, after all, everybody agrees that people are a business’s biggest asset. However, there has never been more competition for the best people.
With firms looking to get a competitive edge over each other in the modern business landscape and the ever increasing visibility of people to job opportunities, the war for talent is reaching critical point.
The UK City of Culture initiative has moved to Hull, which recently celebrated its opening. As part of wider cultural exhibitions, an art work by artist Nayan Kulkarni was unveiled in the city's centre – a 75 meter-long wind turbine. The work was installed in the city's centre with the support of Arup. The work is fitting, as Hull recently got word that Siemens will invest £310 million in the city to build a manufacturing plant for wind turbines
Quint Wellington Redwood, an international consultancy and training firm, has launched a new platform aimed at improving the impact of training efforts through bridging the gap between education and implementation. The platform, dubbed ‘Consulting in a Box’, provides users with an online environment in which they can self-assess their progress and trigger actionable insights.
Growth of the UK economy will hit 1.3% in 2017, up from the previous forecast of 0.8%, according to EY. Economic growth is set to slow in 2018 however, falling to 1.1%. Key factors for the longer-term economic growth are tied to the performance of exports, which remains intimately tied to Brexit deal outcomes.
ScottishPower Renewables has commissioned Royal HaskoningDHV to assess the environmental impact of two large scale East Anglia Zone developments, the 700 MW and 800 MW offshore windfarms. The firm will monitor a range of key geological, ornithological and shipping data, the compiled data will form a key component in the planning application process
Infosys has committed itself to an internal greenhouse gas emission price of $10.5 per ton of CO2e fixed for two years. The move reflects its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2018, and fits into wider moves, including a switch to renewable energy, energy efficiency and offsetting carbon use.
New Delhi: Emerging market economies like China and India, which have been growing much faster than the US, Europe and Japan, are expected to witness even sharper jump in the coming years, says a PwC report.
