Tuesday 22nd Jul, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Will it get off the runway?
Tuesday 3rd Jun, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Consulting isn’t so much an industry as a collection of people in search of interesting work and a bit of cash. Try to orchestrate this activity within a consulting firm and the phrase you’re most likely to come across is ‘herding cats’. Whether you’re trying to build consensus around a particular strategy or simply get people into a meeting, ‘it’s like herding cats.” Cats, of course, are a nice analogy to make: cats are smart and sleek; they lend grace and charm to the houses they inhabit and – if their owners are lucky – catch a few mice into the bargain.
Friday 21st Mar, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Around 540 million years ago, the earth was a seething cauldron of innovation. Up to this point, most organisms were simple, single-cell affairs, but in the course of around 80 million years (the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms), life as we know it, with all its incredible diversity, simply happened. Theories abound about what happened and why, but it may have simply been that our distant forebears had reached a tipping point – and the blobs suddenly became complex bodies.
Sunday 9th Mar, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention.
Wednesday 12th Feb, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska This isn’t a question about whether we need consulting as a service – I, for one, can’t envisage a world in which organisations don’t look for some type of help from the outside. It’s one about whether such services need to be delivered by the collective entity of people which constitutes a consulting firm.
Tuesday 19th Nov, 2013
By Fiona Czerniawska If you don’t have the answer, change the question. The question that’s been dogging the IT consulting sector since before the recession is what the business model is. Specifically, it’s been about how consulting sits alongside technology services (systems development and implementation, outsourcing, and so on). To date, we’ve heard two answers, neither of which has been particularly convincing.
Wednesday 18th Sep, 2013
By Fiona Czerniawska Multicité and Extramuros may not be the most famous consulting firms in world, or even in France, but they may tell us something about the future shape of consulting.
Tuesday 3rd Sep, 2013
By Fiona Czerniawska Recent months have seen a plethora of articles and reports on the return of manufacturing to North America, but shifting economics will change consulting firms too.
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