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Largely driven by its 1.4 billion citizens, a fifth of the world’s population, China has quickly risen as an economic powerhouse and tech leader with rich data resources over the past few years. It has some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including e-commerce giant Alibaba with GMV forecasted to exceed $1 trillion by 2020, and social heavyweight Tencent, creator of super messaging app WeChat which boasts an impressive 1 billion-plus users.
The Commonwealth Bank could be set to cut up to 10,000 jobs and around $2 billion in costs according to reports, with the bank working on the plan with McKinsey.
Deloitte has named Anne-Marie Malley as its new managing partner for consulting in the UK.
She takes over from Richard Houston following his election to senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte NSE and UK.
Freshly launched, Hungry Horace Business Consultancy, is aiming to help businesses with their cash flow and revolutionise the Construction Industry for SMEs.
Scottish construction and property consultancy Thomas & Adamson is leading a project to build a giant radiation shield over the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Global consumer agency InSites Consulting has acquired UK-based insight community specialist Join the Dots, for an undisclosed sum.
More than three-quarters of retail executives believe equipping bricks and mortar stores with artificial intelligence and virtual reality will boost sales, despite the fact shoppers of all generations don’t think the technologies will influence their purchasing decisions, a survey has found.
Boston Consulting Group's 2019 Value Creators list ranks stocks based on total shareholder return over the past five years.
The firm's methodology includes stock-price appreciation and dividends paid out over a longer time horizon.
You don’t have to go far to find remarkable women doing remarkable things in retail. From innovators like Brandless founder Tina Sharkey telling her story on Retail Gets Real to Sephora's head of Omni Retail Mary Beth Laughton speaking at NRFtech, NRF brings together powerful women — industry icons and thought leaders — to share their experiences.
Global information services company Experian has appointed Shri Santhanam as EVP and General Manager of Global Analytics and AI, focused on helping the firm to take full advantage of the potential of big data.
Google’s YouTube tapped Martin Kon, who has worked as a tech, media, and telecoms consultant for more than two decades, as VP of strategy.
Australia’s BCT Solutions has been acquired by multinational professional services firm Accenture for an undisclosed figure
Markus Doerr takes over the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at DHL’s van building outlet StreetScooter. As a new member of the management board, the former consultant will be responsible for production, purchasing and quality.
In the US, change management advisor PA Consulting has acquired specialist innovation business 4iNNO, for an undisclosed sum.
Engineering group Ricardo said it had agreed to acquire Melbourne-based environment, planning and infrastructure advisory consultancy PLC Consulting for A$9.6m (£5.4m).
A leading European Anaplan partner, Profit&, has announced they have opened a Hamburg office.
Michael Zipser has been appointed as managing director set with a task to expand Profit& operations to DACH market, building on successful Anaplan implementations in the region.
Digitisation can unlock another $US13 trillion dollars of economic value over the next decade, most industries have reached their digital tipping point, and providing effective leadership remains a major challenge but one that must be overcome.
Molly Liu left her hometown Beijing to pursue a master's degree in the United States in the 1990s.
After graduation, she fought hard to win an entry-level position at a US-based consultancy and after a period was later sent back to China to help the company's expansion.
China’s biggest 97 industrial conglomerates, known as the country’s national champions, have been asked to play their part as “stabilisers” in the national economy in a bid to offset the trade war with the United States by boosting their profits by 9 per cent in 2019, according to the state-owned Xinhua News Agency.
Renovus Capital Partners, a Wayne, Pa.-based investment firm that holds stakes in nearly two dozen companies that provide education and training services, has acquired a majority interest in KSM Consulting in Indianapolis.
