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An overview of news, trends and research in IT Strategy consulting in the UK:

Digital leaders focus on growth instead of efficiency Digital leaders are on the rise, most visibly in the smallest but also the biggest companies, new research by Accenture shows. These leaders, dubbed Digital Transformers, not only use digital strategies to improve business efficiency, but as a tool
19 January 2015
Strategy&: IT failure contingency plan key for aviation Mid December, chaos erupted over the skies of the capital as a technical glitch in the NATS air traffic control system caused widespread cancelations and delays. This is not the first such glitch, almost a year to the date a similar soft
13 January 2015
McKinsey: Banks must invest in back office automation As banks follow the trend of digitalisation in the financial services industry, they should choose wisely the areas of investments, says consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In it's recent research, the firm shows that not all digital investment
12 January 2015
KPMG: IT failure costs average of 410,000 per incident The failure of IT systems are costing businesses on average £410,000 per incident, concludes consulting firm KPMG in a newly released report.
15 December 2014
Capgemini awarded contract by The Pensions Regulator Capgemini UK has been awarded a contract by The Pensions Regulator to implement and support an integrated case and document management solution that meets the organisation’s need for automatic enrolment of UK work-based pensions. p
02 December 2014
Deloitte investigates glitch in BoE payments system A glitch hit the Bank of England (BOE) last month, throwing its payments system flat and hobbling thousands of housing market transactions.
01 December 2014
CGI helps Oslo with modernisation of public schools ICT Oslo’s Agency for Education has hired CGI to modernise a large ICT system used by the city’s public schools. The new system will support more than 90,000 students and teachers in all of Oslo’s 172 public schools and lea
16 October 2014
Five IT consulting firms win EC contract of 350 million More than thousand IT consultants of among others KPMG and Sword Group will in the coming four years support the European Commission with IT advisory and support. The mega contract has a total value of €450 million, roughly £350 million.
07 October 2014
Accenture helps US Army with ERP advisory and support Consulting firm Accenture has been awarded two contracts by the US Army with a combined value of $53.
17 September 2014
PA Consulting: Early stage key for success of IT project Recently, there have been news reports of several write-offs at large IT household names. It seems we are trapped in a vicious cycle of failure, which is nothing new.
10 September 2014
Toyota Material Handling Europe outsources IT to CGI Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE), a truck manufacturing and material handling firm, has decided to outsource its entire IT operations to CGI.
27 August 2014
PA launches Raspberry Pi challenge for pupils & students For the third year in a row PA Consulting Group is organising its so-called ‘Raspberry Pi programming’ competition, a programming challenge for pupils and students. This year, PA is tasking entrants to ‘revolutionise people’
26 August 2014
Bank of Ireland outsources Group ICT to Accenture Bank of Ireland is planning to outsource its Group Technology Division to Accenture, a global management and technology consulting firm. According to expectations, 200 employees will move to Accenture’s outsourcing branch. The transaction, which
28 March 2014
Accenture takes over technical services firm Evopro Accenture has done a major acquisition in the IT-services and engineering landscape.
03 December 2013
Bain & Company provides strategic advice to Mindtree International IT company Mindtree has hired Bain & Company to develop its new global strategy. In the coming 3 months Bain will draft a new corporate and go-to-market strategy. With the help of Bain’s strateg
13 June 2013
Booz: Netherlands in top 5 Information Technology countries Finland is the world leader in the IT sector. Last year, Finland was still in third place, but this year switched places with neighboring Sweden. Singapore remained in second place. Netherlands is in fourth place, two places higher than last year. That
13 May 2013
Capgemini Consulting: Gaming in transformation trend Two-thirds of digital transformation projects fail mainly due to workforce behavioral issues.
02 May 2013
ADL: Merge procurement, IT and project management Consulting firm Arthur D.
19 July 2012
Hackett: Offshore outsourcing risks millions of jobs Offshore outsourcing in information technology, finance and other back office functions such as human resources has cut 1.1 million jobs since 2008 and will result in another 1.
17 November 2010

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