Management thinking

By Fiona Czerniawska.

Seventeen percent. That’s how much we estimate the digital consulting market will grow in 2017 (and our number is just for consulting, if you include the systems implementation, hardware, and software elements, then growth will be even higher). But where is growth going to come from in more traditional consulting services? The key here will be to re-draw the boundaries of consulting.

By Fiona Czerniawska.

Back in January this year we talked about five big numbers that, we felt, would define 2017. Nine months on it feels like the right time to revisit these and gauge the extent to which the year has—or hasn’t—lived up to our expectations.

By Fiona Czerniawska.

In our recent report on the size of the robotics and artificial intelligence consulting market we were somewhere between cautious and positive about the long-term prospects for growth. It’s easy to believe that the market will be huge, based on all the talking that’s going on at the moment. There’s plenty of alarmist media coverage, which has brought robotics to the public’s attention as well as to clients’ investment committees. At the same time, the technology itself is fragmented and there’s a dearth of hard data that would give clients confidence to spend.