IT consulting

By Edward Haigh

A year ago I asked an Indian systems integrator if they were planning to target the French market where organisations were in deep cost cutting mode.  “Too hard,” was the response: leaving aside the usual barriers to doing business in France (have you been to the right école?), French businesses were thought to be culturally inclined against IT outsourcing and strict labour laws precluded most of the potential savings.

By Edward Haigh

My frequent trips across the North Atlantic over the last year or so have served to illustrate many things: it really ought to be simpler, by now, to get from Kennedy airport into Manhattan; Texas has more private medical centres than cowboys; you don’t need a whole Chicago deep-pan pizza to yourself; technology rules.

By Fiona Czerniawska

“Pessimists will no doubt despair,” begins our report on consulting in the Benelux region, “not least because while we foresee a slight uptick in 2014, there remains little to suggest that Benelux consulting firms are about to start seeing the levels of growth enjoyed by their neighbours to the west and east.”