Thursday 27th Aug, 2015
By Alison Huntington What’s the difference between TMT and financial services clients? There are the obvious things: the jeans and lumberjack shirts versus the sharp suits; the seemingly impenetrable language of technology versus the dictionary of complex financial products; sunshine-soaked Silicon Valley versus the imposing skyscrapers of New York. But there are less obvious things, and the one we uncovered is that clients in these two sectors have very different opinions of the value added by consultants.
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.
Friday 26th Jun, 2015
What on Earth were they thinking?
Thursday 4th Jun, 2015
By Margaret Cameron-Waller Over the past couple of years, we’ve been actively tracking M&A amongst consulting firms – and there’s been plenty to track. In the US alone, we estimate there’s been an average of 5.5 deals every month for the last 2+ years. In some deals, the aim is to acquire a specific technical capability – digital being particularly popular right now. In others, it’s to build scale and extend reach, fuelled by globalisation.
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.
Wednesday 29th Apr, 2015
The GCC consulting market has added $1bn to its value in the space of just three years. That’s roughly equivalent to the size of the entire Swedish consulting market: it’s a lot of growth. But can we expect this to continue or are we about to enter a new phase for the market?
Tuesday 24th Feb, 2015
We tend to take consulting firms' claims that they're dropping low-value clients in favour of a small number of big, high-profile, accounts with a pinch of salt. It's not that we don't believe them, it's just that we suspect it's never quite as binary as they make it sound, and is often being used as a way of telling us that their business is doing very well, without resorting to the usual weapons-grade metaphors. Like "booming", or "exploding".
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