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Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
Consulting engineers are responding to the growth in the amount of data generated by infrastructure by offering a growing range of digital services.
At the end of a long working day in Auckland, New Zealand, thousands of people head to its beaches to cool off or enjoy water sports.
And when choosing which beach to kick back on, residents are relying on information provided by consultant Mott MacDonald.
ROI Consultancy Services – an industry-leading provider of full-service research, marketing and sales automation, and digital agency support to consultants, investors, and corporate clients – and Bain & Company, one of the world's top management consulting firms, have joined forces to produce Bain Certified Net Promoter Score® benchmarking studies as part of a series of industry studies in North America.
The consulting “universe” has long been populated by a small number of large “planets”–strategy, technology, operational improvement, and so on–but if you were to carry out an equivalent of Galileo’s exercise in today’s market, then you’d see something that looks more like the Milky Way than a simple solar system.
A recent survey shows that 90 percent of biopharma companies are making significant investments in real-world evidence capabilities to support multiple annual objectives that include driving drug development and meeting regulatory requirements.
Brexit uncertainty has left the UK is facing its weakest growth since the financial crisis, according to a new economic forecast. The services sector looks to be struggling in particular, as a floundering retail segment and a financial sector increasingly concerned over its access to the continent weigh up their post-EU futures.
Benefits Consultants Group has relaunched its AdvisorEdge Practice Management platform for 401(k) advisers.
It is designed to offer advisers full turnkey practice management support and information to acquire leads and grow business. It offers rospecting tools, plan management resources, extensive educational materials library and sales support library and resources.
Benefits Consultants Group has relaunched its AdvisorEdge Practice Management platform for 401(k) advisers.
It is designed to offer advisers full turnkey practice management support and information to acquire leads and grow business. It offers rospecting tools, plan management resources, extensive educational materials library and sales support library and resources.
Transportation is transportation. Not much change there except for the talk about autonomous trucks, right? Well, not exactly. Especially if you’re taking a look at the NextGen evolution of transportation management systems (TMS).
Innovative start-up to scale-up consulting firm completes second acquisition of 2018, adding founder coaching and board advisory services to its suite of offerings.
“Our mission is to be a founder’s most trusted partner, from start-up to scale-up, and the acquisition of Crimson Consulting enhances our comprehensive services and expertise with another layer of depth and support to our current and future clients.”
Change management consulting has lost none of its luster, despite research that continues to show the majority of change efforts fail to meet their strategic objectives. In fact, demand for change consulting has increased considerably since ALM’s analysis two years ago that estimated a growth CAGR of 5.0% in the five-year period from 2014 to 2018. Providers today say global revenues are growing by healthy double digits, and they expect demand to remain strong if not grow at a faster rate.
An outsider’s perspective can be an invaluable asset to an organization, especially in today’s uncertain economic climate. So when it comes time to strategize for a merger, invest in R&D or implement a competitive cost structure, it’s no wonder that companies are increasingly turning to management consulting firms—so much so that the U.S. consultancy market grew 7.1%, to $58.72 billion in 2016. But when there are thousands of firms, each with different areas of expertise, how can a business find a consultancy that best suits its needs?
Machine learning makes it possible to discover patterns in supply chain data by relying on algorithms that quickly pinpoint the most influential factors to a supply networks’ success, while constantly learning in the process.
The UK is currently lagging behind 21 other nations in the adoption of robot density proportional to its industrial workforce. While Britain is above the global average of 74 robots per 10,000 employees, the UK was still below the European average.
The 52-year old sandwich chain, which has been in a sales slump for years, has reportedly hired an outside consulting firm to help it get back on its feet and possibly position itself for a future sale, according to the New York Post.
Although entrepreneurs in start-up mode commonly think that management consulting is utilised only by businesses that have established themselves or grown to a significant size, the truth is that early-stage companies can benefit from management consulting a great deal. While some consultants are clearly evangelists for business consulting services, having seen firsthand how they can turn things around for troubled companies and help new businesses get off the ground, they don’t think they are too biased when they say that the start-up phase is one of the times when management consulting is ‘most’ useful.
FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN) and the All Stars Project, Inc. today announced that they have partnered with PGA golfers Webb Simpson and Charles Howell III on the Birdies for Development campaign, designed to connect inner-city youth with afterschool development programs that support and inspire them to develop and create new professional performances in their lives.
Eliasan Consulting, a new firm offering services to support global agricultural trade, has opened for business in Seattle, US
A globally connected business has planted some new roots in Frankfort.
Deloitte, a New York-based finance and consulting company, opened an office in April in the McClure Building downtown. About 60 of the company’s employees are based in Frankfort.
The performance gap is widening between companies digitizing their operations and those struggling to do so. That is the clear takeaway from the article, "Digital Maturity Is Paying Off," by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which is based on a survey of 1,900 companies in the US and EU. According to this study, 23% of the companies surveyed are digital champions, while around one-third (32%) are lagging behind. Compared with a similar study a year earlier, the number of laggards has increased while the number of digital champions and those in the middle have declined.
Recipharm has established a dedicated taskforce to manage the potential impact of Brexit on its organization. The UK will exit the European Union (EU) as of March 30, 2019. Recipharm, headquartered in Sweden, is focused on managing the transition with minimal impact to its operations and customers.
Effective people management training for small businesses is essential in solving the UK’s ongoing productivity problem, experts have told an influential group of MPs.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than half the UK’s turnover and employment, but evidence sent to the business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee as part of its inquiry into small businesses and productivity suggested there were a number of barriers preventing them from achieving better productivity
