Beyond Reengineering By: Michael Hammer Price: #20.00 Publisher: Harper Collins Not him again, surely? Not that dreadful “R” word, that we...
View articlePublic service union Unison, which is also the UK’s largest, has signed a pact with Capita to protect white-collar staff in London who are affec...
View articleIT services group Parity has acquired Stuttgart-based consultants TPI for DM1.2m (#0.5m). The move, which will see TPI’s 25 staff transfer to Pa...
View articleBenchmarking your IT systems against best-practice companies might not be worth the effort, a research study has claimed. While the cost of IT continu...
View articleJust when you thought it was safe to read the press … a big outbreak of consultant-bashing in the New York Times. One’s a fairly standard ...
View articleSema Group has reorganised its consultancy practice into four divisions, management consultancy, information systems work, technology consultancy and ...
View articleIT consultancy Logica has acquired the French, Belgian and Luxembourg operations of Axime Ingenierie, formerly part of the systems integration and pro...
View articleMeanwhile, what is going on at McKinsey? First we hear that it has taken the progressive step of specifically targeting gay and lesbian staff with a s...
View articleManchester-based consultancy Strategem has opened a new office in Newport, Wales. It will be headed by Colin Spratling, who recently worked for P-E In...
View articleHuman resources and consultancy group Lorien, which last year bought P-E International, has made two acquisitions in the IT contract resourcing area. ...
View articleCompanies will need radically less office workspace for their employees in the future, according to a survey into workplace trends by PA Consulting Gr...
View articleThe pace of globalisation is putting pressure on Big Six firms andmany are reinventing themselves for the next century. In the first of anoccasional s...
View articleConsultants need to brush up on their philosophy if they are to stay abreast of the current revolution in management thought, according to US author A...
View articleSarah Taylor reports on how the public came first in a successfulconsultant-client relationship at the Reader Services Department of KewPublic Record ...
View articleManagement Consultancy’s publisher, VNU Business Publications, has revamped its Web site, making it easier for users to browse for items of part...
View articleGeneva, Switzerland: There are strange things afoot in the hermetically sealed world of consultancy. Consultancy is a profession that operates in a ra...
View articleOne Christmas bash we must mention was the unveiling of Cap Gemini’s “We value people who have a life outside work” reception displa...
View articleInsight into the highly stressed life of the Andersen consultant comes from the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, the new Chicago office will not have ...
View articleSitting astride an advert on page 49 for 12 months has left the Fool bandy-legged and sorebummed. It’s time to move on. And if the advert isn...
View articleBorders are interesting places, areas of great conflict but also of immense creativity. They also define relationships with almost brutal clarity: is ...
View articleDifferent users want different things from a laptop: some simply wantto duplicate their desktop system in another location while others want towork wh...
View articleKinsley Lord has called for companies to “start dreaming again” and raise their sights from the troughs of downsizing and cost-cutting. I ...
View articleI confess to bafflement. I don’t understand why consultants get excited when a client asks them to write a proposal. As usually conceived, they ...
View articleOne assignment that we hope the drug-crazed Emma (See High fee-earner?) gets nowhere near is the Knight, Kavanagh and Page project for the All-England...
View articleBusinesses are not getting the sharpened performance they need fromIT because of the industry's obsession with technology over businessobjectives. Dav...
View articleThe Civil Service College has successfully applied for IMC approval for two of its consultancy courses. Fundamental Consulting Skills and Developing C...
View articleMany of you reading this will not be IMC qualified certified management consultants (CMCs). Being an IMC qualified member is an independent guarantee ...
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