Strategy consulting

By Fiona Czerniawska.

How the world changes. 

Only a couple of years ago, if we asked clients about the importance of data and analytics in their business, we either got blank looks or a fairly uninterested shrug of the shoulders. But data isn’t boring anymore; analysis is sexy. Combining the two, and being able to derive actionable insights and then implement them, is the Holy Grail. “We need analytics, but we also need implementation,” commented a client in a major bank. 

By Fiona Czerniawska

Finding points of difference between consulting firms is something clients have always struggled with, but there’s one characteristic that’s coming up again and again in our conversations with clients: knowledge of their industry.

By Fiona Czerniawska 26%. That’s the proportion of clients in the energy and resources sector globally who think that strategy firms deliver poor-quality work, twice the level of clients on average, and three or four times as many who say this about Big Four or technology firms. Indeed, attitudes about technology firms move in the opposite direction, being more positive in this sector than on average.