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Weber Shandwick has launched United Minds, a management consultancy.
The new group will be led by Kate Bullinger, formerly Weber’s global head of employee engagement and change management. The offering combines Bullinger’s previous remit with United Minds Sweden which Weber acquired in 2014, when it bought United Minds parent company Prime and created Prime Weber Shandwick.
Jet Airways has appointed global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co to help it chart a turnaround plan even as India’s second-biggest airline struggles to stay afloat and chairman Naresh Goyal approaches peers for infusion of funds.
Trindent Consulting has been named one of the Fastest Growing Firms for 2018. Consulting Magazine ranks firms based on three-year revenue growth,
Chairman of the Phillips Consulting group, Mr. Foluso Phillips, has presented to the Nigerian Business Community the new Managing Director of the firm, Mr. Robert Taiwo, who has been overseeing its affairs since the beginning of the year. He did this during a breakfast summit hosted by the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce in Lagos.
Widen, a provider of digital asset management (DAM) software, today launched Strategic Consulting services for marketing technology. Strategic Consulting complements Widen’s Professional DAM services, offering strategy design, change management, and process improvement. By focusing on strategy, Widen aims to outfit customers for challenging, long-term objectives.
AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, today completed the acquisition of independent financial advisory and interim management firm Zolfo Cooper.
Accenture, a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services has recently announced a new blockchain tool that focuses on interoperability.
In the past six months, accounting firms have begun to make their presence felt in the legal markets of Hong Kong and Singapore with a flurry of office openings and poaching of talent. And while the general feeling is that they might take away some legal work from traditional law firms, not all lawyers are nervous.
In what may be a surprise to some, consulting firms pay their interns more than any other industry – at least those attending top-ranked business schools. Hedge funds, investment banks and investment management firms are packed tightly together, but then there’s a precipitous drop to private equity firms and tech companies.
ALM’s Consulting magazine honors the profound difference women continue to make for their clients and their firms at the Women Leaders in Consulting Gala Awards Dinner on November 8 at the New York Palace Hotel. Debbie Simpson, a Senior Partner and Chief Financial Officer for the Boston Consulting Group, is being recognized with Consulting magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Apparently to reach wider business community, Phillips Consulting Limited has diversified its operations beyond training and outsourcing services.
The consulting firm, at the unveiling of its new logo, Pcl., at the Nigeria-South African Chamber of Commerce meeting in Lagos recently, outlined new practice areas like strategic innovations, digital technology consulting, people transformation and, project and programme management.
Ugam, a global leader in data and analytics, today announced a partnership with OC&C Strategy Consultants, a leading global strategy consulting firm. The partnership will add advanced data and analytics capabilities to existing business consulting services, empowering retailers with deeper insights and effective tools for making data-driven decisions.
We’re now 10 months into 2018, and it’s already evident that the term of the year in consulting will be robotics. Although techno-pessimists may prophesy that massive unemployment will hit skilled professionals , the helping industry is ripe for major disruption indeed.
Grant Thornton LLP has acquired TayganPoint Consulting Group, a well-known life sciences consulting boutique based in the greater Philadelphia area.
Creative digital consultancy Deloitte Digital has joined the chorus of management consultancies in Australia by urging advertising agencies to work with them - rather than seeing consultancies as competition
Next generation management consultancy, Procorre, has today announced the launch of Procorre100, a new initiative that will see the company recruit 100 women in 100 days into its consultancy network.
Lenovo has struck a three-year device-as-a-service (DaaS) deal with KPMG Australia, involving more than 7,800 devices.
Global consulting firm OC&C Strategy Consultants has appointed Adam Xu as partner in the Greater China team.
It’s been another good year for international law firms. According to the latest figures published by the American Lawyer, the aggregate revenue for the Global 100 increased by 6.4% in 2017, compared to 2.8% and 3.1%, respectively, for the two previous years. The top 100 grossing law firms, of which 81 are US-based and 13 are UK-based, achieved combined revenues of $105.7bn with 41 firms surpassing the $1bn revenue mark.
The consultancy will navigate the disruption resulting from greater use of smart devices for search, such as Amazon’s Alexa (pictured) giving one search term via voice compared with a list of results on a Google web page.
