The scale of the Year 2000 problem threatens to be so large thatconsultancies are forming alliances in order to cope with the anticipatedsurge in dema...
View articleLatest victim of the curse of Andersen Consulting is … Andersen Consulting, as usual. Despite being in the seventh year of their decree nisi fro...
View articleLouis Hall is joining OSI as assistant programme manager. He will be working with the Electricity Pool on the 1998 programme, reporting to the program...
View articleAndersen Consulting is planning to launch a new business in the US on the 1 November, called Via World Network. It is the third business to be set up ...
View articleOur annual survey shows that there has been substantial improvement in the fortunes of the largest consultancies. And, says Philip Abbott, they are co...
View articleYou’d have to be living in a water-filled hole in the Black Forest not to have noticed the recent backlash against downsizing, delayering, BPR a...
View articleOSI, the management support company, has restyled itself and expanded its services in a bid to differentiate itself from mainstream consultancies. It ...
View articleThe nature and culture of consultancy can make the headhunter's jobdifficult, says Jeremy Cox. He stresses the need for clear briefing,timely decision...
View articleThe stage is set for an explosion in interest in document management,says Douglas Hayward, as organisations realise that, in order to survive,they mus...
View articleBMT Reliability Consultants, the engineering consultancy, has been contracted to provide reliability and maintainability consultancy for the new rolli...
View articleSuicidal students form a large part of the work of an Australian psychologist I know. They arrive in his campus office ready to end it all. The instin...
View articleZ/Yen, part of the Financial Laboratory Club (F#C) consortium, has been awarded #750,000 from the Department of Trade & Industry’s Foresigh...
View articleLorien, the Alternative Investment Market-quoted IT recruitment consultancy, has acquired P-E International for #11m cash. Lorien has funded the purch...
View articleThat the Government’s Private Finance Initiative has run into trouble should not, in itself, be surprising. An initiative that depends on the vo...
View articleAt Kearney is expanding its practice in new and emerging markets The firm, which has been working in Russia for five to six years, has. bought Canon A...
View articleAnother one of the portfolio programmes launched by CSC Index recently is Index Beacon, an advisory service for senior human resource executives. The ...
View articleHow many consultants does it take to create a data warehouse? There’s no amusing answer to this riddle, but there is a rather sad one – al...
View articleThe European services arm of Unisys expects to be profitable on flat revenues during 1996, following a period of reorganisation and retrenchment which...
View articleTraditional financial ratios should no longer act as the overridingyardstick in making key decisions, says Colin Bainbridge, but should bebalanced by ...
View articleCap Gemini Sogeti (CGS) has opened a new office in Singapore. The firm, which has been working with clients in South East Asia on an ad hoc basis for ...
View articleParity Solutions has been awarded a #750,000 contract by Northern Information Systems, a subsidiary of Northern Electric, to build a number of subsyst...
View articleCity analysts believe that more consulting firms are planning to merge or seek stock market listings as IT outsourcing contracts come to dominate the ...
View articleInternational management consultancy CSC has launched Index Genesis, a research and advisory service, in Europe. Aimed at senior executives responsibl...
View articleAndersen Consulting has won a 10-year outsourcing contract to supply finance and administration services to Exel Logistics, the supplier of logistics ...
View articleSince the May issue of Management Consultancy, press reports of a “re-interpretation” of the Koran have been sighted. I understand that it...
View articlePublic-sector spending on management consultancy has decreased in recent years, as government departments change their procurement policies. Income no...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward has joined the trend towards openness in the industry by publishing its maiden annual statement. “In broad terms this reflects ...
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