Tuesday 17th Nov, 2015
As China’s economy gradually settles into its “new normal” of more moderate growth, some of the big, foreign-based multinational corporations in the market—the very ones that global consulting firms followed here—have become a bit skittish about making further investments. With MNCs no longer looking like fonts of perpetual high growth, consultants are increasingly turning to the growing and maturing domestic market to fill the gaps in their spreadsheets.
Tuesday 10th Nov, 2015
By Alison Huntington I keep a close watch on the price of oil Lest my consulting practice goes off the boil I must admit, I felt worried for a time But things are fine, I walk the line …is not what Johnny Cash sang, but does neatly sum up consulting to the energy sector over the last year or so.
Tuesday 27th Oct, 2015
With a rapidly maturing market—corners of which are already growing by double digits year on year—you’ll be hard pressed to find a consultant in Africa who doubts the continent’s long-term potential. But those actually living and working on the ground often find they have an uphill task in convincing their bosses back home to make the investments that will have them in pole position when that promised future finally arrives.
Thursday 9th Jul, 2015
I was recently on a plane with a big group of Italian tourists. We all duly read our magazines, ate our peanuts and landed safely – to a huge round of applause and whooping for joy from the Italian tour party. It is perhaps this delight in simply staying alive which explains the sanguine nature of the Italian response to yet another year of a consulting market which is not growing at all.
Tuesday 2nd Jun, 2015
By Alison Huntington No, this isn’t another article about why French women are so thin compared with us frites-loving Brits. Or about the ever-expanding waistline of Gérard Depardieu. It’s about how size matters when looking at the 2.4% growth notched up by the French consulting market in 2014. And it matters in several ways.
Thursday 7th May, 2015
By Zoe Stumpf We’ve spent the last few weeks in the Benelux region – not literally, you understand, but speaking to consultants and senior clients about the state of the market. Doubtless to the great relief of all concerned, the conclusion of our newly-published Benelux consulting market report is that the market has at last returned to growth in 2014, albeit at a very modest level.
Friday 27th Sep, 2013
We were impressed by Greenwich Consulting. We speak to somewhere in the region of 300 consulting firms in the course of our research every year and occasionally a firm stands out for one reason or another. Greenwich stood out.
Monday 1st Aug, 2011
The growth agenda: it’s on the lips of virtually every consulting firm at the moment. Private sector clients, blinking in the macro-economic daylight, want to develop new products and launch them into new markets. They want to know how to innovate, how to recruit the best people from emerging markets and how to re-engage consumers in more jaded ones. Growth-related projects often have a caché within consulting firms beyond their size because the results are more tangible than most consulting services (a new product launched, a new marketing campaign).
Thursday 24th Jun, 2010
The art of “and” is the title of an article by the Boston Consulting Group on how organisations, post-recession, need to grow revenue while simultaneously cutting costs. It’s not a question of one or the other, the article suggests: you have to do both.
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