Book review
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Book review

27y Accountancy Age

Book review

Beyond Reengineering By: Michael Hammer Price: #20.00 Publisher: Harper Collins Not him again, surely? Not that dreadful “R” word, that we...

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Unison signs Capita
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Unison signs Capita

27y Accountancy Age

Unison signs Capita

Public 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...

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Parity buys in Germany
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Parity buys in Germany

27y Accountancy Age

Parity buys in Germany

IT 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...

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Benchmarking a waste?
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Benchmarking a waste?

27y Accountancy Age

Benchmarking a waste?

Benchmarking your IT systems against best-practice companies might not be worth the effort, a research study has claimed. While the cost of IT continu...

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Justinthyme?Don't get shirty with me
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Justinthyme?Don't get shirty with me

27y Accountancy Age

Justinthyme?Don't get shirty with me

Just 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 ...

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Sema Group reorganises to offer seamless service
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Sema Group reorganises to offer seamless service

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Sema Group reorganises to offer seamless service

Sema Group has reorganised its consultancy practice into four divisions, management consultancy, information systems work, technology consultancy and ...

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Logica acquires French foothold through Axime
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Logica acquires French foothold through Axime

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Logica acquires French foothold through Axime

IT consultancy Logica has acquired the French, Belgian and Luxembourg operations of Axime Ingenierie, formerly part of the systems integration and pro...

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Justinthyme?If the shoe fits, wear it
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Justinthyme?If the shoe fits, wear it

27y Accountancy Age

Justinthyme?If the shoe fits, wear it

Meanwhile, 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...

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Strategem's Welsh wizard
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Strategem's Welsh wizard

27y Accountancy Age

Strategem's Welsh wizard

Manchester-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...

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Lorien makes acquisitions
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Lorien makes acquisitions

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Lorien makes acquisitions

Human resources and consultancy group Lorien, which last year bought P-E International, has made two acquisitions in the IT contract resourcing area. ...

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Office of the future is a thing of the past, claims PA survey
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Office of the future is a thing of the past, claims PA survey

27y Accountancy Age

Office of the future is a thing of the past, claim...

Companies will need radically less office workspace for their employees in the future, according to a survey into workplace trends by PA Consulting Gr...

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... like an ever spinning wheel
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... like an ever spinning wheel

27y Accountancy Age

... like an ever spinning wheel

The pace of globalisation is putting pressure on Big Six firms andmany are reinventing themselves for the next century. In the first of anoccasional s...

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Philosophical investigations
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Philosophical investigations

27y Accountancy Age

Philosophical investigations

Consultants 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...

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IMC News?Minding your Peace and Queues at Kew
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IMC News?Minding your Peace and Queues at Kew

27y Accountancy Age

IMC News?Minding your Peace and Queues at Kew

Sarah Taylor reports on how the public came first in a successfulconsultant-client relationship at the Reader Services Department of KewPublic Record ...

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Visit the new VNU Web site
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Visit the new VNU Web site

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Visit the new VNU Web site

Management Consultancy’s publisher, VNU Business Publications, has revamped its Web site, making it easier for users to browse for items of part...

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Around the world - Who moved the line then?
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Around the world - Who moved the line then?

27y Accountancy Age

Around the world - Who moved the line then?

Geneva, Switzerland: There are strange things afoot in the hermetically sealed world of consultancy. Consultancy is a profession that operates in a ra...

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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense
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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense

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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense

One Christmas bash we must mention was the unveiling of Cap Gemini’s “We value people who have a life outside work” reception displa...

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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?
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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?

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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?

Insight into the highly stressed life of the Andersen consultant comes from the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, the new Chicago office will not have ...

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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell
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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell

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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell

Sitting 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...

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Editorial - Battle for the borderland
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Editorial - Battle for the borderland

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Editorial - Battle for the borderland

Borders are interesting places, areas of great conflict but also of immense creativity. They also define relationships with almost brutal clarity: is ...

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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the move
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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the move

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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the ...

Different users want different things from a laptop: some simply wantto duplicate their desktop system in another location while others want towork wh...

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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming
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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming

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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming

Kinsley Lord has called for companies to “start dreaming again” and raise their sights from the troughs of downsizing and cost-cutting. I ...

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Practice management - Short and sweet
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Practice management - Short and sweet

27y Accountancy Age

Practice management - Short and sweet

I confess to bafflement. I don’t understand why consultants get excited when a client asks them to write a proposal. As usually conceived, they ...

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Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once
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Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once

27y Accountancy Age

Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once

One 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...

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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business
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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business

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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business

Businesses are not getting the sharpened performance they need fromIT because of the industry's obsession with technology over businessobjectives. Dav...

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IMC approves short courses
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IMC approves short courses

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IMC approves short courses

The Civil Service College has successfully applied for IMC approval for two of its consultancy courses. Fundamental Consulting Skills and Developing C...

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IMC membership: check your own credentials and claim your certificate
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IMC membership: check your own credentials and claim your certificate

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IMC membership: check your own credentials and cla...

Many 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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