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Rakesh Pabbi - Senior Partner
In the past, running an organizational transformation was a bit like taking an international flight—challenging but familiar. We know that it will be long, but we also know approximately how long. We know what to pack, we know that delays are possible, and we have a clear vision of the beautiful city where we soon will arrive
Accounting giants will be banned from offering lucrative consulting services to firms they audit under a sweeping crackdown by the accounts regulator to stamp out conflicts of interest.
While the number of UK female-founded start-ups has doubled over the last decade, a colossal funding gap means that male-founded businesses still outnumber them by nearly ten-to-one. According to research from Boston Consulting Group, when female-founded start-ups do receive investment, it is on almost one-third less than the amount received by their male-founded counterparts.
Digitas UK is launching an experience-transformation consulting service in which the agency’s senior planners lead on tackling brands’ "disconnection" with customers.
The UK has fallen six places down the global rankings for gender equality. Despite successive prime ministers pledging to take decisive action to tackle the gender imbalances in politics and wider British society, the UK has dropped from the 15th most equal nation in world to 21st.
In 2019, women around the globe took action, claiming leadership positions in government, business, philanthropy and media. These trailblazers are not to be messed with.
nsKnox, a leading cyber security provider of corporate payment protection technology, today announced an international strategic partnership with KPMG, a leading global consulting firm.
The partnership will provide benefits for both organisations . Vintura will be able to access the expertise offered by PharmaLex's global reach in 31 offices across 17 countries, and PharmaLex is set to build on its service portfolio offering to clients with Vintura’s specialisms. The two organisations will continue to operate under their respective, well-established brands
US-based consulting firm Mercer has started partnership with Frankfurt digital asset manager Ginmon.
The partnership is aimed at employers. In the future, Mercer will be able to offer its employees access to Ginmon digital asset management through its cloud-based benefits portal, Darwin.
Accenture said the acquisition will further equip its clients with capabilities to meet the growing demand for enterprise-scale AI, analytics and automation solutions.
It’s not an over-exaggeration to say that the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have a huge impact on global technology usage throughout the coming years.
According to the Ericsson IoT forecast report, it’s predicted there will be around 29 billion connected devices by 2022 – 18 billion of which will be IoT-related.
Creative agency Havas has sought to diversify its offering to clients with the acquisition of Gate One. The consulting firm specialises in helping clients execute digital transformation projects, a lucrative area of business which Havas will hope to tap via a holistic marketing and transformation offering.
Accenture has launched the Accenture Cloud-Native Core Solution to help enterprises leverage the public cloud for maximum business agility and results.
L.E.K. Consulting has appointed a number of new global co-leaders in key segments – including partner Fabio La Mola as Global Healthcare Sector Co-Head for Asia Pacific.
Global accounting and professional services giant KPMG will invest $5 billion over the next five years to enhance its capabilities in the digital transformation of professional services.
In a significant move that will no doubt send ripples through the market, Deloitte Legal has launched Deloitte Legal Ventures, a large-scale tech engagement programme that will see 14 mostly startups inducted into the rapidly growing Big Four firm’s legal business.
Global management leader Bain & Company has agreed to a purchase of Qvartz, a Scandinavian management consultancy with offices in Singapore and Manila.
Accounting and consulting firm MNP has acquired Mobilis Strategic Advisors, a Montreal-based strategy consulting firm.
Capgemini announced a six-year agreement with Bayer AG, the German global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture, to transform its IT landscape and to further accelerate the digitalization of the organization. As part of the new agreement, Capgemini will deliver a wide range of transformational services, including Bayer’s IT infrastructure Cloud transformation; run Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence/Analytics domains management and transformation, as well as the Service Integration of Bayer’s entire new supplier eco-system.
Pete Buttigieg called on McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm where he worked for nearly three years, to release his list of clients at the company.
