Thursday 3rd Apr, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Ever since the deal between PwC and Booz & Company was announced in late 2013, there’s been speculation about the latter’s new name (when Booz & Company separated from Booz Allen Hamilton back in 2008 it agreed that, in the event it was acquired/merged, it would surrender its name within 90 days).
Thursday 14th Feb, 2013
By Edward Haigh Greenwashing is a term with which we've all become a bit more familiar over the last few years. It describes the act of creating an impression of sustainability and environmental sensitivity when the reality is somewhat different. And it's happening everywhere.
Thursday 20th Dec, 2012
Following an evening at the Special Forces Club in London recently, I mentioned to a friend - by way of trying to sound coolly underwhelmed by the experience - that I hadn't been terribly impressed with their egg-mayonnaise vol-au-vents. So when I was invited back a few weeks later my heart skipped a beat. Had my friend betrayed my confidence? Were my vol-au-vent-eating days about to come to abrupt end at the hands of trained operatives whose 'Death, and how to dispense it (2012)' manual had been updated to include a section on 'termination by hors d'oeuvres'?
Monday 13th Aug, 2012
I've had the chance, as a result of the hard work of my wife and the talent of her brother, to spend a bit of time on red carpets over the last few years.
Wednesday 27th Jun, 2012
For some time now one of the truisms of consulting has been that you can either be a (big) brand or a (small) specialist; anyone in the middle ground will either be absorbed by a bigger player or dispersed among smaller ones.
Monday 19th Mar, 2012
Around a quarter of the 400+ clients we questioned recently were HR directors; most were significant buyers of consulting services. The striking thing about talking to so many of them is how rarely they voluntarily talk about the big HR consulting firms, even though many use their services. This paradox appears to stem from the fact that they think of these firms primarily in terms of administration rather than “consulting”. “We don’t use any of the big HR firms except on payroll and remuneration issues,” was one, typical comment.
Thursday 1st Mar, 2012
In the course of researching our 2012 Management Consulting Market report we've been asking consulting firms how the competitive landscape has changed for them. Specifically, we've been asking whether they're coming up against competitors they haven't encountered before. In all the conversations I've had so far only one consulting firm has ever been mentioned in response to that question: McKinsey.
Thursday 19th May, 2011
Here at Source we like to entertain ourselves with finding parallels between consulting and other industries. I’ve talked before about the similarities with phrama (R&D a challenge) and the film industry (specialisation a must), but until I spoke to Torsten Oltmanns at Roland Berger, it hadn’t occurred to me that we were like the car industry.
Wednesday 9th Mar, 2011
Carrying out some research recently, I suddenly realised that each of the Big Four firms have now taken ‘ownership’ (in that special marketers meaning of the word) of one of the major colours. Was this deliberate? Suddenly I’ve got a picture in my mind of the Chief Marketing Officers from each firm sitting round a table, each with a large cuban in one hand and a balloon of Louis Treize in the other. They're eyeing each other nervously. Blue (KPMG) and yellow (Ernst & Young) have already been agreed; red and green remain in play.
Monday 29th Nov, 2010
We seem to be entering a new stage in the evolution of the preferred supplier list.
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