Monday 23rd Jul, 2012
One of the most intriguing things to emerge from our new report on the consulting industry across Europe, the Middle East and India is the growth in multi-disciplinary projects.
Wednesday 18th Jul, 2012
Our 2012 Management Consulting Market report, which we previewed at an event in London on Wednesday 27th May, finds a ‘big consulting’ market in the EMEI region worth €26.4bn. That number represents growth of about 4% on last year.
Friday 1st Jun, 2012
There's always a danger, in writing reports about the consulting industry (or anything else, for that matter), that, in the time between the words being written and the report being published, something might happen which invalidates the arguments the report makes. It's why we use the phrase 'at the time of writing'.
Friday 18th May, 2012
It is 20 years since the philosopher Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. Buoyed by the end of the Cold War, he argued that the dominance of Western liberal democracy marked the end of man’s socio-cultural evolution.
Tuesday 1st May, 2012
Demand for consulting in the countries of the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) has been growing fast since the recession, but for most consulting firms in the region this hasn’t meant a return to business as usual. That’s been confirmed by our recent round of client research, this time focusing exclusively on the views of almost 150 senior executives in the region. The impression they give is of a market that’s undergoing significant change.
Monday 16th Apr, 2012
When my son was younger, just starting to relinquish my hand as we walked along the street and perhaps slightly intimidated by the enormous world around him, he always used to look down at the pavement. One day the inevitable happened and he crashed into a tactlessly-positioned lamp-post. This is a good analogy to the predicament the consulting industry finds itself in today.
Monday 26th Mar, 2012
Charles Handy, the eminent business philosopher, first started writing about the switch from permanent to temporary labour thirty years ago. By the early 1990s his predictions had started to come true, as organisations redrew their structural boundaries and triggered an explosion of growth in outsourcing. Since then, we’ve also seen a significant rise in the level of freelance work.
Friday 16th Mar, 2012
It’s hard to distinguish between Big Four firms – at least that’s what we thought. But our recent research with 400+ clients tells us otherwise. There are certainly areas where clients do think these firms are hard to tell apart; “they’re all much of a much-ness”, was how one of them put it. Certainly everyone associates them with financial management and regulatory-driven work: no surprise there. And almost everyone says their people are “good”, though rarely anything more than good, even if their knowledge of specific industries tends to be rated highly.
Wednesday 14th Mar, 2012
We’ve spent the last three months finding out what senior executives think about consulting, both the industry in broad terms and the specific firms they work with.
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