China and other Asian countries will play a major role in shaping the smart cities of the future thanks to high adoption of smartphones and digital services, a recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute shows.
The health and social care secretary has pledged almost half a billion pounds to transform technology in the NHS in an attempt to reduce staff workloads and improve patient care.
In his first speech since being appointed to the post, Matt Hancock listed technology as one of his top three initial priorities and evangelised about how it could help achieve improvements in the other two – workforce and prevention of illness.
China's booming economy is creating jobs in unprecedented numbers, making more overseas Chinese residents willing to come home for employment opportunities, and sees an increasing reluctance of China's workforce to join the globally mobile work community, according to a recently-released report from Boston Consulting Group, The Network, Zhaopin, and ChinaHR.
Management consulting company Accenture is hiring 20 Scottish university graduates for its Edinburgh office. The new hires will join the global firm following a recruitment campaign with Scottish universities to help hold onto local talent.
The Big Four accounting firms secured contracts worth millions of euros from the European Commission over the past five years to advise on tax policy, fuelling concerns about conflicts of interest given their involvement in several tax avoidance scandals.
In the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, an ambulance speeds through traffic on a wave of green lights, helped along by an artificial intelligence (AI) system and big data.
The system, which involves sending information to a centralized computer linked to the city’s transport networks, is part of a trial by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The Chinese tech giant is hoping to use its cloud and data systems to tackle issues hobbling China’s healthcare system like snarled city traffic, long patient queues and a lack of doctors.
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company on Friday said it would return the fee of approximately R1 billion to Eskom it earned on the 2016 turnaround programme for the power utility.
A multinational company run by a major Conservative donor has refused to pay a consultant it hired to advise on a potential contract in Saudi Arabia after the Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation into its activities, according to court documents.
A study from management consultant firm the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has named London as the best city in the world to work in.
The research was the largest-ever study of workforce migration trends, with 366,000 workers from nearly 200 countries being surveyed.
Capgemini has been positioned as a Leader by ALM Intelligence in its report. The report highlights that the Group’s combination of pure consulting, through Capgemini Consulting, and extensive technology engineering resources and innovation strategy capabilities, such as those of Fahrenheit 212, enables Capgemini to stand out among the leaders. It also recognizes the Group’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) network as particularly effective for simultaneously facilitating the delivery of real market outcomes to clients while instilling best practices. In addition, it mentions that Capgemini’s recent acquisition of LiquidHub contributes to its execution capabilities.
McKinsey & Company, the prominent management consultancy, has stopped working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the disclosure last month that the firm had done more than $20 million in consulting work for the agency. The revelation prompted questions from employees at the firm.
When Kevin Sneader, McKinsey’s recently elected global managing partner, told the Financial Times last month that he would like the proportion of its employees who have MBAs to fall — from 37 per cent currently to “less than a third” — he was reflecting a trend for more diverse hiring across the big consultancies.
CNN International wants in on the consultancy game.
The media owner has created a new consultancy unit, called CNN Reach, based out of its London and Singapore offices. The goal: Help clients plan and create campaign content; advise on and execute distribution and media buying both on and off its own platforms; and offer first-, second- and third-party audience targeting across CNN and its parent company Turner’s portfolio.
Myrtle Consulting Group, a hands-on operations management consulting firm delivering operational transformation to global organizations, announced today the acquisition of Kalium Consulting, an operational consulting firm with over 20 years of global experience in the mining, metals and heavy asset industries.
KPIT, a global technology company that specializes in IT consulting and product engineering solutions today announced a strategic collaboration with Kinetiq, the leader in life sciences and clinical research management consulting, to deliver new life sciences focused business technology applications.
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.