BCG launches its BCG Platinion subsidiary in Morocco

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BCG launches its BCG Platinion subsidiary in Morocco

Global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has launched its technology advisory subsidiary BCG Platinion in Morocco.

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Meet the woman now leading McKinsey France: Clarisse Magnin

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Meet the woman now leading McKinsey France: Clarisse Magnin

Global strategy and management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has appointed a new country leader for its French organisation: Clarisse Magnin.

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Accenture Buys Lexta

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Accenture Buys Lexta

Accenture acquired Lexta, a Berlin, Germany-based consulting firm specialized in IT benchmarking and IT sourcing advisory.

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Can ERP and MES Systems Keep Up With IIoT?

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Can ERP and MES Systems Keep Up With IIoT?

IoT systems today are sifting through volumes of data to bring insight for processes like enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution.

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Accenture To Acquire Google Cloud Premier Partner As M&A Soars

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Accenture To Acquire Google Cloud Premier Partner As M&A Soars

Accenture’s thirst for acquisitions to extend its global IT services reach continued today with the disclosure of its plan to purchase Google Cloud Premier partner Wabion.

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PwC announces new strategy: The New Equation

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PwC announces new strategy: The New Equation

PwC unveiled The New Equation, PwC’s landmark global strategy which responds to fundamental changes in the world, including technological disruption, climate change, fractured geopolitics, and the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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KPMG's banking audits not up to scratch, says UK watchdog

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KPMG's banking audits not up to scratch, says UK watchdog

KPMG's bank audits needed improvements for an "unacceptable" third year running and the accounting firm will be closely monitored,

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Kea & Partners lands investment to double its business by 2026

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Kea & Partners lands investment to double its business by 2026

French strategy and management consulting firm Kea & Partners has raised €23 million from investors as part of its strategy to accelerate its growth and double its business within the coming five years.

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SAP Loses Ground to Oracle in Cloud ERP Despite S/4HANA Cloud Up 39%

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SAP Loses Ground to Oracle in Cloud ERP Despite S/4HANA Cloud Up 39%

While SAP is rightfully proud that its S/4HANA Cloud ERP business jumped 39% in Q2, Oracle’s competing product grew even faster at 46% for the quarter ended May 31.

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Nokia teams up with consulting firm CGI to create ‘5G lab’ in London

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Nokia teams up with consulting firm CGI to create ‘5G lab’ in London

CGI already has an ‘innovation centre’ in the central London skyscraper known as the walkie-talkie building, so it looks like Nokia is helping it create a 5G zone within that.

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PwC to fast-track pay rises, expand bonuses amid war for talent

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PwC to fast-track pay rises, expand bonuses amid war for talent

PwC announced that it would move to increase staff pay faster between promotions and expand bonus eligibility from 40 to 80 per cent of the firm’s staff as part of a broader overhaul of staff benefits introduced to better retain, and attract, top talent.

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5 minutes with Steve Ingram, Director, Deloitte

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5 minutes with Steve Ingram, Director, Deloitte

KIT was born out of a project between design and technology consultancy Keytree (now owned by Deloitte) and one of the world’s leading global luxury fashion brands

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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Openminded

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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Openminded

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Openminded, a France-based cybersecurity services company. Accenture announced its intent to acquire Openminded on April 29, 2021. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Where are pharmaceutical companies focusing their big data hiring efforts?

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Where are pharmaceutical companies focusing their big data hiring efforts?

Big data is an area that has seen rapid growth across a variety of industries in recent years – not least among pharmaceutical companies.

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IBM Starts showing a little hybrid vigor

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IBM Starts showing a little hybrid vigor

IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right

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A Rising tide of cyber risk requires security  at businesses' core

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A Rising tide of cyber risk requires security at businesses' core

Technology has given us much to be thankful for in the past 18 months. Ten years ago, the prospect of pivoting global workforces to remote working overnight would have been unthinkable.

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IBM shares jump 4%

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IBM shares jump 4%

IBM shares surged more than 4% immediately after the tech giant reported financial results for the second quarter than beat analysts’ expectations for both revenue and earnings.

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McKinsey urges refiners to take action as downstream market shrinks

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McKinsey urges refiners to take action as downstream market shrinks

Research released by leading global consultancy, McKinsey & Co., predicts that demand for light product (gasoline, diesel/gasoil, jet/kero – including biofuels), which largely drives refining utilisation, will plateau by the mid-2020s – even in the case of a delayed energy transition.

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Alvarez & Marsal adds operations expert Eric Dustman as managing director

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Alvarez & Marsal adds operations expert Eric Dustman as managing director

Consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal has hired Eric Dustman, a seasoned operations and supply chain expert, as a managing director in its corporate performance improvement practice. He will be based in Chicago

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FTI Consulting expands merger & acquisition team with Big Four trio

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FTI Consulting expands merger & acquisition team with Big Four trio

FTI Consulting has strengthened its Corporate Finance and Restructuring team in the Middle East with a trio of senior hires from Big Four firm KPMG.

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