Thursday 3rd Jul, 2014
By Edward Haigh I wrote a piece about the UK consulting market recently (Mind the (closing) gap) in which I suggested that UK clients were a cynical bunch when it came to their views about consultants. I may have got that a bit wrong.
Tuesday 1st Jul, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska I’ve just been analysing the results of our new survey of client perceptions in the Nordic region. As always, people find it hard to tell firms apart, at least within segments (they’re quite clear about the differences between segments). Our job, if you like, is to pour over the data to find the areas where real differences shine through.
Wednesday 18th Jun, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska It’s not quite the story arc of a Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s a realistic enough prospect to make many a managing partner quake in their boots. Forget massive explosions levelling cities; forget aliens abducting large swathes of Americans: this is where the action is.
Monday 9th Jun, 2014
By Edward Haigh As names for adversaries go, the ZZPs sound pretty scary. They sound as though they arrive on motorbikes, wearing studded leather and carrying weapons. In fact they arrive in BMWs, wearing suits and carrying briefcases. But if you’re a Dutch consultant that makes them even more scary.
Friday 30th May, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Twenty years ago Gavin Potter and I wrote a book called Business in a Virtual World. Its thesis was that the increasing conversion of ‘stuff’ into digital information paved the way for a new way of doing business. The book garnered some nice reviews, earned the praise of people we respected – and sold a couple of thousand copies. How times change: today, digitization books pepper the top of bestselling business book lists. After years of speculating what the next big thing in consulting will be, I think we’ve found it.
Thursday 22nd May, 2014
By B.J. Richards Anyone familiar with Source’s reports knows we love an analogy, and when writing this year’s France consulting market report, I was delighted to come to the realization that the French market of 2014 might well be summed up as an Edith Piaf kind of market – that is to say a tale of heartbreak and survival worthy of France’s all-time greatest chanteuse.
Thursday 15th May, 2014
There’s something strange happening in the Nordics.
Wednesday 30th Apr, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska Let’s have some fun. Let’s take two firms – I’m going to call them Firm A and Firm B, but regular readers of our blog can amuse themselves by trying to work out who’s who. They’re not selected at random, though: these firms have something important to tell us a lot about the US consulting market as a whole.
Monday 28th Apr, 2014
By Fiona Czerniawska The last time I was in Dubai it rained. And I’m not talking about the desultory drizzle which you get sometimes. It poured. For an entire day. Weather London would be proud of. And it was clearly a shock to systems other than just mine. Dubai roads, I discovered, don’t have drains (Why would they? There’s usually nothing worth draining); they also don’t have a camber, so rain lay where it fell – which was all over the place. Hazardous and unfamiliar driving conditions resulted in more than 600 accidents that day on the main road between Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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