Healthcare consulting and services firm Cumberland Consulting Group has acquired LinkEHR, an Electronic Health Records (EHR) managed services firm.
We highlighted the publication of the Crown Commercial Services Management Consultancy tender (“MCF2”) recently here. CCS is setting up four “lots” to cover a range of consulting requirements, and there have been a few negative comments around the design of the process; for instance, the lack of real price competition in the tender design. So we did a bit of digging around, talked to a couple of people we know who understand CCS pretty well, did some thinking … and have some potential explanations in terms of the logic behind the procurement
The Home Office has inked a deal with a coterie of consultancies and system integrators to create a digital app intended to register the three million EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit.
We are on the verge of transforming one of society’s most fundamental building blocks: manufacturing.
As new technologies enable manufacturers to customize everything, these same agents are quickly turning consumers into inventors.
As first announced in February, the Lloyd’s Lab will focus on designing technology-driven solutions to meet the unique and rapidly changing needs of the Lloyd’s market. The Lab will enable new concepts, ideas and products to be tested in a fast-track, fast-fail environment with the support and active involvement of Lloyd’s market participants.
Sweden’s consulting market grows the strongest to almost €1billion (€944million)
- Nordic region viewed as a global digital leader by consultants – as revenues from digital transformation work approaches €1billion...
The growth of the Nordics consulting market has continued to accelerate - increasing 5.7 per cent to reach a value of €2.77billion in 2017. All four countries in the region grew at a faster rate than in 2016, with Sweden—the region’s largest market—seeing the strongest growth rate of 6.9 per cent to €944million.
Despite the negative connotations that Uber's fatal self-driving crash brought to the technology one month ago, the sector is, nevertheless, attracting more and more capital bets and fueling excitement as time goes on, especially in China.
JDX Consulting, the global financial services firm, has today announced the consolidation of its subsidiaries: JDX Consulting, Fintech Solutions, base60 and JDX International to form JDX. This re-structure will simplify the global operating model, providing greater value to clients and stronger organisational alignment for its people, during this exciting period of growth.
Increasing female representation in top-paying jobs and high-growth industries could add more than $26 billion to Singapore's economy by 2025 - representing additional growth of 5 per cent per year.
In Europe, the centralised procedure allows a Marketing Authorisation Holder (MAH) to market a medicine across all EU Member States including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway on the basis of a single marketing authorisation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Today, the great majority of new, innovative medicines pass through this procedure; ATMPs must be authorised in this way.
Accenture has acquired Certus Solutions in a bid to utilize the Oracle Cloud implementation partner in creating the next wave of "intelligent enterprises."
The tech giant said that Certus Solutions will become part of Accenture's Oracle practice, with a particular focus on shepherding clients towards Oracle Cloud applications.
There are many challenges in the pharmaceutical supply chain, from maintaining quality to security issues. Can blockchain provide the end-to-end visibility needed?
It’s a good time for the pharmaceutical industry. Whether you’re a manufacturer of clinical trial materials or prescription medicines ready for pharmacy shelves, business has been booming. In fact, pharma has spent the last 30 years as a consistently top-performing industry.
Last February, United Kingdom-based software developer Medopad announced it had signed 15 Chinese trade deals. CEO of Medopad Dan Vahdat commented that the new agreements would see the parties “work to improve patient care in China” and their technology used to contribute “towards China’s healthcare reform goals.”
IT firm Cognizant today said it has acquired privately-held Hedera Consulting, a move that will strengthen the former's consulting and digital transformation capabilities for clients in Belgium and the Netherlands.
May marks the 17th month since Sean Menke became CEO of Sabre, the travel technology company based in Southlake, Texas.
Menke inherited a company that may not have been in as good a shape as had been suggested by its stock valuation — which had nearly doubled from its 2014 initial public offering.
Global consulting firm McKinsey & Company is said to have helped the UK Government identify £813 million worth of savings in its procurement spending. According to a Freedom of Information request, the leading consultancy was paid £10 million for the cost-cutting advisory services provided to the Crown Commercial Service.
The volume of data being collected by industrial companies has increased exponentially. Enabled by IIoT sensors, high-performance computing and cloud technologies, analysis and predicting outcomes around complex problems has been made a reality in a way that conventional engineering, operations and maintenance technologies have not been able to in the past.
A QATARI consulting firm is opening a new office in Belfast, creating 22 jobs.
In a bid to grow its business across Europe, Excelledia Quality Consulting, headquartered in Doha, is opening an innovation centre in the city and aims to have all the new positions in place by the start of next year. It is the first inward investment to come from Qatar and it is hoped more will follow in the future.
Her Majesty The Queen today announced drug development consultancy, Artemida Pharma, as a recipient of the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category.
Initial coin offerings have raised billions of dollars for startups while attracting criminals and authorities around the globe. Now, the young market may get some help cleaning up from the Big Four consulting firms.