Cap 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 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 articleDreadful old cynic that the Fool is paid to pretend he is, he already had in mind, when Mrs Fool fell pregnant, that at some point he would write a pi...
View articleTRADA Certification (TCL) and BMT Quality Assessors (BMTQA), third party assessment and certification bodies, have been brought together in a strategi...
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 articleInternational management consultancy CSC has launched Index Genesis, a research and advisory service, in Europe. Aimed at senior executives responsibl...
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 articlePublic-sector spending on management consultancy has decreased in recent years, as government departments change their procurement policies. Income no...
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 articleDespite good vision, I agree with your two correspondents that in places Management Consultancy can be difficult to decipher. We have had considerable...
View articleHoskyns has launched a pilot computerised “deskshop” facility for its own staff, to test market demand for shopping from the office. An on...
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 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 articleOsaka, Japan: Are you one of those people who attends a lot of meetings? Are you a believer that he or she who controls the flip chart controls the ro...
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 articleOur annual survey shows that there has been substantial improvementin the fortunes of the largest consultancies. And, says Philip Abbott,they are conf...
View articleBDO Stoy Hayward has joined the trend towards openness in the industry by publishing its maiden annual statement. “In broad terms this reflects ...
View articleAndersen Consulting has won a 10-year outsourcing contract to supply finance and administration services to Exel Logistics, the supplier of logistics ...
View articleConsultants have dismissed reports that the Government’s Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is about to collapse. “For over two years Anders...
View articleOrigin, whose SAP team was recently awarded the Partner Excellence Award for Services in the UK, has won a #900,000 contract to provide SAP support fo...
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 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 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 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 ...
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