Accenture winds down media auditing arm

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Accenture winds down media auditing arm

After its current fiscal year ends in August, Accenture will no longer serve advertisers as a consultant that audits how well their media agencies buy ads.

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Accenture to Acquire Mudano

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Accenture to Acquire Mudano

Accenture has agreed to acquire Mudano, a strategic data consultancy to U.K. financial services firms, further enhancing its analytics, data and artificial intelligence (AI) transformation capabilities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Digital Transformation Should Be A Step-By-Step Process

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Digital Transformation Should Be A Step-By-Step Process

Companies large and small, B2C and B2B, understand that in order to succeed in today’s global and highly competitive market, it is essential to utilize technology, especially digital technology

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Judging the consultants — how firms weigh individuals’ worth

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Judging the consultants — how firms weigh individuals’ worth

“Consultants can demonstrate their quality only by their performance; the ones that succeed on the job will be sure of getting plenty of repeat business.”

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EY diversity head: UK still has ‘some way to go’

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EY diversity head: UK still has ‘some way to go’

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.

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Management Consultancies continue to broaden talent Pool

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Management Consultancies continue to broaden talent Pool

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.

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AlixPartners named a "top place to work for LGBTQ equality "

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AlixPartners named a "top place to work for LGBTQ equality "

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.”

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Capgemini passes first hurdle in Altran bid despite Elliott resistance

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Capgemini passes first hurdle in Altran bid despite Elliott resistance

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.

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KPMG and Google Cloud announce strategic business alliance

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KPMG and Google Cloud announce strategic business alliance

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.

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Fortna acquires German logistics consulting firm to grow European footprint

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Fortna acquires German logistics consulting firm to grow European footprint

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.

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British Steel: Jingye brings in PwC and McKinsey to close £50m deal

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British Steel: Jingye brings in PwC and McKinsey to close £50m deal

Prospective British Steel buyer Jingye has called in PwC and McKinsey to help finalise the company’s plans to close the deal.

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The APAC Strategy consulting market

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The APAC Strategy consulting market

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

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 McKinsey teams up with Pratham to help millions of children learn to read and write

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McKinsey teams up with Pratham to help millions of children learn to read and write

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.

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The GCC consultancy market is catching healthcare fever

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The GCC consultancy market is catching healthcare fever

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.

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2030: from technology optimism to technology realism

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2030: from technology optimism to technology realism

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.

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Artificial Intelligence Can’t Get Here Soon Enough

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Artificial Intelligence Can’t Get Here Soon Enough

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.

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How To Leverage Digital Transformation To Make Workplaces More Diverse And Inclusive

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How To Leverage Digital Transformation To Make Workplaces More Diverse And Inclusive

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.

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Arjun A. Sethi Named Kearney's New Head of Asia Pacific

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Arjun A. Sethi Named Kearney's New Head of Asia Pacific

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.

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Bain & Company appoints seven partners in New Delhi and Mumbai

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Bain & Company appoints seven partners in New Delhi and Mumbai

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.

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Record Black Friday drives Asos recovery after profit warnings

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Record Black Friday drives Asos recovery after profit warnings

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.

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