One of the big stories in the marcomms industry over the past few years has been the rise of the consultancies – PwC, Accenture, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, McKinsey et al – as major players in the mergers and acquisition (M&A) space.
Accepting a job is like a legal marriage. You can usually leave at any time, but the associated costs can really add up. Job switching costs for an employee, both in time and money, are high. Firing, for a firm, is equally expensive. There’s the severance cost, the training costs, the cost of the burden placed on existing employees who have to temporarily pick up the slack. And in countries with rigid employee protection regulation, firing costs easily skyrocket.
While it goes without saying that every internship is unique, there are some points of commonality between internships at EY, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG. The workloads may vary - but the emphasis on training is huge.
Accenture Interactive is to acquire creative agency Droga5.
The deal will see Droga5, which has 500 employees spanning offices in New York and London, become a major part of the management consultancy's marketing and customer experience division.
Robert Quinn Consulting Limited (RQC) and Capricorn Fund Managers Limited (CFM) have partnered to create a unique new discretionary management regulatory hosting platform, Capricorn Regulatory Hosting.
MPs are calling for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to aim for the full structural break-up of the Big Four firms into audit and non-audit businesses, along with a market cap and the use of joint audits, in order to tackle conflicts of interest, develop the market for challenger firms and increase professional scepticism
The median gender pay gap at KPMG, when taking into account the data for equity partners’ pay, has risen to 28% in the past 12 months
Cognizant has been named the number one service provider to the healthcare sector in HFS Research’s HFS Top 10 Healthcare Services 2018.
Health care is the improvement or maintenance of health through diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of illness, disease, injury, and other ailments or impairments, both physically and mentally in human beings.
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, announced today global sales of $7.5 billion for 2018, with underlying revenue growth reaching 19% at constant exchange rates.
NNIT A/S announces that it has acquired Halfmann Goetsch Partner AG (HGP). The acquisition provides NNIT with a stronger presence in European life sciences hubs Frankfurt and Basel, and strengthens its position as an international leading IT transformation partner for life sciences companies.
A global company with a 100-year history has chosen the Dayton area for a new digital hub that will house its growing workforce.
International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has set up a new diversity and inclusion task force to actively support representation and inclusion from more diverse groups so they can become leaders and influencers in the consulting engineering sector.
NHS Improvement has authorised a tranche of financial support projects, ending a mini-drought in trusts tendering for management consultancy.
Marking the launch of key SAP enterprise solution myConcerto, Accenture recently hosted the SAP Intelligent Enterprise client event in South Africa.
Roumania's consultancy services market grew by 6% last year compared to 2017, to more than EUR 200 million, according to data provided by the management consultancy company Horváth & Partners. The firm estimates that the growth rate of 6% will be maintained this year as well.
The Big Four firm has introduced three new programmes to support flexible working including the Life Leave Scheme, which allows staff to take 12 weeks unpaid leave
A new management consulting firm has opened in Cayman, led by fin tech experts Brandon Caruana and Brian Tang. Cartan Group LLC is the first technology-focused strategy and management consulting agency on island, dedicated to helping institutional clients embrace emerging technologies that could disrupt their global strategies and operating models.
Trianz, a global digital transformation consulting and technology services firm, has achieved its second consecutive year recognition as one of 'America's Best Management Consulting Firms' by Forbes in its 4th annual listing comprising 218 firms.
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, announces that Mr. Grant Porter has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company’s Engineering, Design and Project Management business in the Middle East and Africa. Located in the Middle East.