Management Consulting Market to Reach $295 Billion by 2020

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Management Consulting Market to Reach $295 Billion by 2020

The global management consulting industry is expected to continue growing at a rate of 4-5 percent, according to Beroe Inc., a procurement intelligence firm

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KPMG in Bahrain enhances its Management Consulting practice

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KPMG in Bahrain enhances its Management Consulting practice

KPMG in Bahrain announced the expansion of its Advisory function with the appointment of Manav Prakash to lead the firm’s Management Consulting practice in Bahrain. Manav has been with KPMG in Bahrain for over ten years and has worked with leading organisations in the Government and Private sector.

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FT launches a new consulting arm

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FT launches a new consulting arm

As more and more news businesses turn to paywalls and subscriptions, The Financial Times looks like an early model and success story — a few months ago the organization announced that it has passed 1 million paying readers, with digital subscribers accounting for more than three-fourths of its circulation.

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McKinsey and Lean In say they’ve found the biggest barrier to gender parity

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McKinsey and Lean In say they’ve found the biggest barrier to gender parity

The good news: There are more women in top level positions at America’s firms than ever before. The bad news? There are still big problems getting there, and the biggest, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, isn’t even breaking through the final “glass ceiling.”

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Energy Management Consultancy secures Welsh Rugby Contract

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Energy Management Consultancy secures Welsh Rugby Contract

Cardiff-based consultancy amber energy has been appointed by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) to secure energy costs at more than 200 properties including the Principality Stadium for the next four years.

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McKinsey & Co. wants to 'industrialize' your job in banking

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McKinsey & Co. wants to 'industrialize' your job in banking

McKinsey & Co. has issued a big new report on the future of the banking industry. As has been observed by a wag, it basically constitutes a pitch for business by the strategy consulting firm, which is suggesting banks need to get their houses in order, urgently, before the next catastrophic downturn comes their way.

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Guidehouse completes $1.1 billion acquisition of Navigant

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Guidehouse completes $1.1 billion acquisition of Navigant

Guidehouse, a portfolio company of private equity firm Veritas Capital, has completed its acquisition of Navigant, a Chicago-based global management consulting firm.

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Deloitte boosts senior Cambridge team

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Deloitte boosts senior Cambridge team

As well as investing and recruiting 25 graduates and school-leavers at its Cambridge office, Deloitte has also recently welcomed partner, Fran Cousins to the local Cambridge team.

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Genpact acquires Digital Consultancy RightPoint

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Genpact acquires Digital Consultancy RightPoint

Genpact, a global professional services firm, is acquiring Chicago-based digital consultancy Rightpoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Accenture Acquires UK-Based Innovation Firm Happen

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Accenture Acquires UK-Based Innovation Firm Happen

Accenture has acquired Happen, a privately owned innovation firm that uses proprietary methods, frameworks and digital tools to help clients generate new ideas, products and services that drive business growth. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Boston Consulting acquires London design firm AllofUs

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Boston Consulting acquires London design firm AllofUs

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has acquired AllofUs, a leading design consultancy based in London.

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TeamUltra announces Strategic Consulting Service for the Now Platform

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TeamUltra announces Strategic Consulting Service for the Now Platform

TeamUltra - a Computacenter Company - today announced the launch of a newly formed practice, dedicated to providing strategic ServiceNow consulting services. The service will help companies to establish a sound strategy and governance around the Now Platform. This provides a solid foundation for ensuring ServiceNow delivers the expected benefits from digitising workflows, such as lower costs, improved user experience, accelerated time to value and faster ROI.

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Indonesia picks McKinsey to help plan capital in the forest

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Indonesia picks McKinsey to help plan capital in the forest

An Indonesian unit of management consultants McKinsey & Company has been appointed to conduct a feasibility study on moving the capital from the crowded, flood-prone city of Jakarta on Java island to the forested island of Borneo, an official said.

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KPMG UK promotes 49 to partner

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KPMG UK promotes 49 to partner

KPMG UK has announced the appointment of 49 partners and 196 directors this year

Of the new partners 29 were external hires and 99 of the new directors came from outside the Big Four firm.

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Capgemini receives contract extension from HMRC

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Capgemini receives contract extension from HMRC

HM Revenue & Customs has announced it has extended its contract with Capgemini to supply IT services for a further two years. While the news takes the firm and client’s continued relationship to 18 years, however, a key change to the contract will see its responsibilities dispersed to other, smaller firms over the coming 24 months.

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Retired PwC partners split £100m windfall

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Retired PwC partners split £100m windfall

The profit share system at PwC has seen more than 1,000 of its former partners share a total windfall of £100m after record profits this year

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Deloitte gender pay gap slow to close

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Deloitte gender pay gap slow to close

Deloitte UK has published its 2019 gender pay gap data, indicating that progress towards parity is taking a while to achieve

This shows the Big Four firm’s mean pay gap is 18.7% (18.1% in 2018) and the median pay gap is 16.1%, the same as last year

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Bumper crop of promotions at KPMG

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Bumper crop of promotions at KPMG

KPMG has made 20 promotions across its Audit, Tax and Advisory teams based at Hills Road in Cambridge, including three new directors.

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15 Smart Ways Machine Learning Helps Businesses And Entrepreneurs

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15 Smart Ways Machine Learning Helps Businesses And Entrepreneurs

Among the most impressive new developments in technology is the field of machine learning (ML). In essence, machine learning teaches an artificial intelligence system to teach itself. While this might sound like the start of a campy sci-fi horror story, the results are quite promising for small business

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Gartner: Get ready for more AI in the workplace

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Gartner: Get ready for more AI in the workplace

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be widely adopted in office environments in a variety of ways over the next few years as businesses invest in digital workplace initiatives, Gartner analysts said today.

The trend is expected to gather steam as voice-activated personal assistants that have proved a hit at home begin to make inroads in the office.

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