"Having good market intelligence is no longer optional in this day and age"
Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
At a time when disruption is seemingly the only constant in the corporate world, business leaders have increasingly enlisted management consultants to develop the digital solutions, employee experiences and financial strategies they need to remain competitive.
David Bernstein has launched a new consulting firm, Propeller Solutions Group, offering services primarily to the laundry industry. Bernstein is returning to consulting after a 5-year hiatus during which he established and led Lapauw USA. The new firm will begin offering services immediately.
BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested £11.6m in Invenio, a Reading-headquartered and global provider of business focused technology solutions and consulting services, to support the business’s continued growth.
Accenture has acquired Storm Digital, a full service digital marketing agency specialising in search, social and programmatic advertising services that transforms customer experiences through strategic, technological, analytical and creative solutions.
HCL Technologies share price fell in trade today after the firm announced the acquisition of US firm- Strong-Bridge Envision to enhance the 'Digital Transformation Consulting capabilities'.
Within the Management Consultancy space there are a massive amount of firms of varying sizes and specialities, each with their own unique culture…but also shared traits. Quite often it entirely depends on the stage of your career, where you are in your life outside of work and the type of person you are as to which of these firms best suits you. I will try to break down these firms below to give you a better idea of what types of firms might be worth exploring, however there is no better way than first meetings to judge a company.
At the age of 28, former Business Analyst and Management Consultant at KPMG Nigeria Oluwaseun Runsewe has become the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a banking institution in Africa through the launch of her entrepreneurial fintech venture by the name of Switch.
Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, today announced that it has acquired Quay Advisers, a leading strategic communications and investor relations advisory company based in Sydney, Australia.
Japan Airlines (JAL) is working with Accenture on a new service that applies artificial intelligence (AI) to answer passenger requests at the airline’s check-in counters. The service assesses what check-in counter agents are saying to passengers and then pushes relevant information to the agents’ tablets in near real-time, which includes additional relevant information tailored to the individual’s journey. JAL and Accenture have already started piloting the AI-enhanced service at its international check-in counters at Narita Airport and Haneda Airport.
Phillips Consulting Limited plans to partner Human Capital Growth (HCG), a United States-based talent management firm, to provide evidence-based human resource and talent management certifications to the market.
Believe the press (well, parts of it) and Artificial Intelligence is becoming as ubiquitous as an iPhone. It makes me want to say, Alexa (or Siri of course), will your software be able to help me with whatever ails me in the future?
Deloitte France has announced a new partnership with Dataiku, aiming at transforming the consulting field and solidifying the path to Enterprise AI for their clients.
Dataiku will initially be available to 150 French team members across different areas of consulting and auditing. Thanks to the collaborative nature of the tool, multi-disciplinary teams within Deloitte France will be able to work together using Dataiku to systematise the use of AI on client projects.
Management consultancy Deloitte Digital has announced a partnership with business software giant SAP and experience management solutions firm Qualtrics, to provide personalized customer and employee experiences at scale.
Accenture’s acquisition push continued its fevered pitch this week with two new deals. The global consulting firm is buying Hjaltelin Stahl (a Danish creative agency) and Enterprise System Partners (a Cork, Ireland-based firm), Accenture said in separate announcements.
CGI announced an all-cash tender offer of SEK 41.45 per share to acquire through its wholly owned subsidiary CGI Nordic Holdings Limited, all outstanding shares of Acando (the "Offer"). Acando's consultants combine deep technical expertise with human behavioural insights to help clients maximise the power of technology to achieve their business goals.
Meritsoft, a Dublin-based specialist financial services software company, has been acquired by Nasdaq-listed IT services group Cognizant for an undisclosed sum.
Founded by brothers Paul and Kerril Burke as Merit Software in 2000, the company is best known for its Finbos platform. This is an automation solution for managing taxes, fees, commissions, and cash flow functions between financial institutions.
Accenture and nCino have formed an alliance to help financial institutions in Asia-Pacific and EMEA to accelerate their digital transformation. The alliance will assist the institutions to implement and adopt nCino’s digital banking solution and replace their disparate legacy systems and manual functions with nCino’s Bank Operating System.
Gender equality is something that is on every company’s radar at the moment, with a lot of effort being put into trying to get to that dream 50/50 split. Management Consulting is no different, with most firms trying to look at why they aren’t attracting enough diverse talent and how to improve this.
IT’S the productivity, stupid.
That’s the underlying message from two new reports about the South African mining industry, one by consulting McKinsey & Company, the other by the Boston Consulting Group, both released to coincide with the Mining Indaba 2019.
Brent Beardsley, a former partner at Boston Consulting Group, has joined Vanguard.
“Brent Beardsley joined Vanguard at the beginning of the year to lead our Corporate Strategy department. The team is responsible for supporting Vanguard’s corporate and business line strategy, and includes Vanguard’sInnovation Studio. The previous head of Corporate Strategy was Ann Combs, who retired at the end of 2018,” Vanguard spokesperson Emily Farrell said.
