For most professional services firms, sustained growth usually involves an acquisition or a transfer of ownership. Many founders in general have their eye on their end game in today's fast-moving, milestone-driven, valuation-obsessed business environment. But for Bruce Ballengee, CEO and Co-Founder of Pariveda Solutions, Inc., a $100 million, 500-person technology strategy and solutions consulting firm, no exit strategy was no problem. In fact, starting the company without a plan to sell it was one of his prerequisites.
Before becoming the bootstrapping startup founder of The Change Shop, Robert Smith worked as a management consultant helping large enterprises like PepsiCo, Polo Ralph Lauren, the U.S. Department Health and Human Services and UBS Bank transform their operations.
Some Deloitte employees have called on the New York-based accounting firm to end its consultation services for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The news comes just days after some employees at Deloitte rival McKinsey & Co. convinced company brass to end its work for ICE.
Accounting and consulting giant EY is to create 520 jobs across six cities in Ireland.
This consists of 305 jobs that will be filled by Ireland’s best and brightest graduates by September, up by 57 roles on last year’s intake. An additional 215 new roles will be filled by experienced candidates in areas that include data analytics, IT advisory and transformation, risk, cyber, digital strategy, and customer experience.
Microsoft has been working on health-related initiatives for years, but the company is now bringing its efforts together into a new Microsoft Healthcare team. This doesn’t mean you’ll be visiting a Microsoft Store anytime soon for human virus scans, instead it’s a bigger effort to create cloud-based patient profiles, push doctors to the cloud, and eventually have artificial intelligence analyzing data
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.
