There are several reasons to apply for a job at the Big Four. Chief among them is the fact that Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and EY hire more professionals globally than just about any other company. PwC hired nearly 65k people during its last fiscal year, nearly double the number of employees currently working at Goldman Sachs. That works out to roughly one new hire every eight minutes. Of course, Big Four firms are still plenty selective, so it helps to know exactly where their priorities are currently.
Northwell and Nassau University Medical Center have issued a letter of intent to enter a six-month partnership in which Northwell would provide management-consulting services to the East Meadow hospital, after the NUMC board of directors voted unanimously in favour of the partnership.
Eversheds Sutherland's consulting arm generated GBP26 million last year. Its consulting arm is a mix of lawyers, audit and risk specialists.The employment of management consultants and senior business executives is on the increase in legal firms. This enables the law firm to offer a wide range of services, including business strategy and change management consulting. The range of services varies, but it tends to include legal IT solutions, talent management and records management along with legal strategy development and implementation.
International strategy consulting heavyweight McKinsey & Company has formalised its entry into the world of design thinking, launching the new McKinsey Design brand. The firm’s new business unit builds on three acquisitions – Lunar, Carbon12 and Veryday – which has enabled it to reach a headcount of some 350 designers spread across ten international hubs.
The management consulting team of KPMG is looking to hire nearly 8,000-9,000 people in India, a tenth of them to be deployed on projects overseas, as they see global clients increasingly want one of the Big Four audit firms to implement solutions and demonstrate results for the strategy guidance it gives them.
How much will you earn if you jettison your job in a City of London investment bank and go to work for consulting firm McKinsey & Co. instead? McKinsey's UK accounts, just filed for the year ending December 2017, offer some pointers.
Accountancy firm KPMG has said it will no longer do consultancy work for the UK's biggest companies if it is also auditing them.
The firm's chairman said the move was to "remove even the perception of a possible conflict" of interest.
PA Consulting (PA), a global innovation and transformation consultancy that's bringing ingenuity to life, announced today that it has acquired Essential Design (Essential), a Boston-based innovation strategy and product design business. Essential are experts in user-centred design, improving customer experiences and driving innovation to market.
UAV specialist Drone Major Group has appointed Jonothan Davey as its director of strategy. It is a new position which, according to the company, reflects the "transformational impact that drone technology is beginning to have globally."
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.
