Monday 10th Jan, 2011
We associate him with gravity and optics, the foremost thinker of the English enlightenment and one of the greatest scientists ever. But it’s a little known fact (beautifully narrated by Thomas Levenson's book Newton and the Counterfeiter), that, wearing his other hat (although wig might be more accurate in the context of the 17th century), Newton was Warden of the Royal Mint.
Monday 20th Dec, 2010
“Scrooge!” The voice was less terrifying than he’d been expecting, more posh and nasal. Scrooge lowered the blanket: a dimly transparent figure stood at the end of the bed, grey hair, grey suit, navy tie, dazzling white shirt. It was holding an attaché case in one hand and a business card in the other.
“I’m the Consultant of Christmas Past.” The figure looked at its watch. “I’ll be back in a few minutes with my report.”
Friday 8th Oct, 2010
The MCA’s ‘Are you worth your weight in gold?’ campaign for the 2011 industry awards has struck a chord with me. At a time when the value that consultants deliver is coming under increasing scrutiny it seems like a really appropriate question for the industry to ask itself. It’s also a nice reminder that – now more than ever – clients are looking for something more than standardised process and methodologies from consulting firms to help them solve their problems.
Wednesday 5th May, 2010
Whenever an economy / sector / organisation has been through a period of turmoil as the consulting industry has over the last year, it’s good practice to look back at the lessons learned. How, the regulators and politicians are asking themselves, can we avoid similar meltdown in the future?
But is the consulting industry asking this? I’m not convinced. Instead, I see a tendency (and I’ve noticed this before, in the aftermath of other downturns) to heave a collective sigh of relief and return to business-as-usual.
Tuesday 23rd Feb, 2010
It came as something of a shock to me, as I was reading our recently published report on HR Consulting this afternoon, to discover the following two sentences:
Tuesday 5th Jan, 2010
Like me, you’re no doubt reeling from the revelation that Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse” is actually a diatribe against consultants. According to the FT, she eventually narrows the door so that Mr Jackson, a toad, cannot get in, a strategy Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC, says is the ideal way to deal with consultants.
Monday 6th Jul, 2009
Organisations may need new inspiration and ideas, but the marketing departments of many consulting firms don’t seem to have noticed. In our daily grind at sourceforconsulting.com, we inevitably see a lot of firms’ marketing material and it’s rare that we see anything distinctive.
Pages |