Thursday 3rd Jul, 2014
By Edward Haigh I wrote a piece about the UK consulting market recently (Mind the (closing) gap) in which I suggested that UK clients were a cynical bunch when it came to their views about consultants. I may have got that a bit wrong.
Sunday 9th Mar, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention.
Wednesday 7th Aug, 2013
By guest writer, Tale Skjølsvik, Associate Professor at Oslo and Akershus University College
Friday 19th Apr, 2013
As part of our research with clients this year, we asked them to choose which things, from a long list, would encourage them to buy more consulting services. They could have chosen from things like the ability of a consulting firm to implement as well as advise, the availability of highly-specialised skills in a particular field or a willingness to listen and tailor services to their needs. Guess what came top of list. Yep, lower fees.
Tuesday 16th Apr, 2013
Late last year we embarked on our most ambitious research programme ever, speaking to hundreds of senior clients in the world’s major consulting markets about their views on consultants.
Thursday 31st Jan, 2013
By Fiona Czerniawska It’s not just a question of glamour (‘consultant’ sounds so much more upmarket, as any hair or sales consultant will tell you), but hard cash: consultants can charge more than contractors.
Tuesday 8th Jan, 2013
This is Laurie Young, a widely-acclaimed expert and the author of many books on marketing: “As a young teenager I’d visit my older cousins who had one fault: all of them were ‘petrol heads’ ... Now that’s part of the male psyche that missed me and I had to stand around while they, beer in hand, would talk endlessly about speed and new models in mind numbing detail. But it taught me to communicate.
Monday 20th Aug, 2012
It’s official then: the 2012 Olympics in London were the best ever. Or at least so say the people of Great Britain who, it turns out, get to decide. Barring the people of Brazil reviewing their games in four years’ time and coming to the conclusion that London – for all it lacked in beaches, Christo Redentor statues and impromptu carnivals – was indeed the best, it seems a safe bet that the accolade will pass to Rio.
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