Arun Batra used to watch his father come home from his job as a taxi driver after a day of being insulted, spat at and once hospitalised following racial abuse.
The management consultancy industry is continuing to become more accessible to those from a diverse range of backgrounds, according to the latest survey from the Management Consultancies Association (MCA). In the MCA’s Annual Member Survey, the number of young consultants who attended a Russell Group university fell from 54% in 2018 to 45% in 2019 – a fall of 9% and a significant decline from the percentage of 73% in 2011.
AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, today announced that for the third year in a row it has earned a perfect score of 100% on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI), ranking AlixPartners among the HRC’s 2020 “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
French consulting and IT services provider Capgemini succeeded in securing more than half of the capital of smaller rival Altran Technologies, the French market regulator AMF said on Monday, marking a win against U.S. activist fund Elliott.
KPMG UK & Google Cloud are significantly strengthening their relationship through the launch of the KPMG Google Cloud Business Alliance, which is designed to accelerate digital transformation for KPMG’s UK firm and clients which include some of the world’s most well-known organisations – and comes as part of KPMG’s ongoing investments into technology, people and innovation in 2020.
Supply chain systems design and integration firm Fortna Inc. has acquired a German logistics design and consulting firm, saying the move will help Fortna build up its European presence and better service its client base internationally.
Prospective British Steel buyer Jingye has called in PwC and McKinsey to help finalise the company’s plans to close the deal.
The APAC Strategy consulting market is fragmented with the presence of several industries and the competitive dynamics in the market are expected to change during the upcoming years.In addition to this, various initiatives are undertaken by the governmental bodies to accelerate the APAC Strategy consulting market further
India has made significant progress improving educational opportunities for all children, but substantial gaps in literacy remain. In India alone, 266 million people cannot read or write, which represents 35 percent of the world’s adult population. Without basic reading and writing skills, many education and employment doors remain closed for India’s young people.
US$104 billion.
This is where the GCC is expected to reach by 2022 in healthcare expenditure, rising rapidly at a CAGR of 6.6% from US$76 billion in 2017. This trend, in a healthcare market which is still operating with only a few performance indicators (occupancy and bed capacity) and is heavily reliant on ex-pat healthcare professionals, is being driven by several underlying changes in the region.
Today’s technological revolution is a time of enormous promise, but also new challenges. As we enter the 2020s it is clear that we are far from unlocking the potential of technology for our toughest challenges.
We stand at a critical juncture to put technologies to work in a responsible way.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can help achieve the SDGs this decade.
70% of the targets could be enabled by already deployed technology applications.
There are just as many use cases for AI as there are companies. For healthcare organizations, AI is playing a role in monitoring equipment, while retailers see AI as a way to better understand customers. Transportation executives are banking on AI to drive autonomous vehicles.
In a business environment that demands efficiency, speed, and delivering greater value to a widening variety of stakeholders, it is critical that leaders, like me, look for synergies that drive better business outcomes. At my firm, and at the organizations I work with, business leaders are grappling with how to pull off two major business imperatives that will shape their - and our - collective future: How to digitally transform their companies, and how to make their workplaces more diverse and inclusive.
Kearney, a leading global management consulting firm, has named Arjun A. Sethi as the Regional Chair (elect) & new Head of Asia Pacific effective May 1, 2020. Arjun will oversee the business strategy and operations of Kearney's business across Australia and New Zealand, Greater China, India, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Global management consultancy Bain & Company has over the course of last year appointed seven new partners in India, across promotion rounds in June and December. Four of the new leaders are based in Mumbai, while the remaining three are based in New Delhi.
The online fashion retailer Asos has staged a comeback after a difficult year in which it issued two profit warnings. It credited a record Black Friday for strong sales growth over the festive period.
Each year, around 185,000 MBA students graduate in the U.S. alone. A significant portion of these students spend more than 100 hours each preparing for so-called case interviews — the favored evaluation method of elite consulting firms such as McKinsey, in which candidates are presented with a business problem and asked to talk through how they would solve the problem.
The struggling fashion retailer Ted Baker has admitted that an accounting error was twice as big as initially thought, leaving it with a £58m hole in its balance sheet.
Technology, business and strategy consulting firm Slalom has opened up shop in Australia, with former Accenture Asia Pacific technology lead Michael Shimota heading up the company’s local operation.
AlixPartners announced that Tom Scampion has joined as a Managing Director. Tom joins the firm’s EMEA Investigations & Compliance Services team. He will be based in AlixPartners’ London office, and together with Guenter Degitz, Managing Director in AlixPartners’ Munich office, will co-lead the firm’s Financial Crime business in EMEA.