Management news in the UK

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

Eman Al-Hillawi on what 2025 taught her as a CEO and digital transformation leader Ahead of January and the new lessons, learnings and trends likely to emerge in 2026, business leaders should take this time to reflect and plan.
26 December 2025
Known unknowns and the limitations of planning by Excel The best laid plans of Microsoft Excel often go awry – limited by the fact that “you only know what you know”.
10 November 2025
McKinsey continues reign as top CEO factory Once again, a number of studies have emerged proclaiming McKinsey & Company as the world’s leading CEO factory.
20 October 2025
What does good tech leadership really look like? Being a tech leader comes with a huge level of responsibility for both the business and employees, however, leadership in the private sector compared to the public sector is slightly different and a
20 August 2025
Women in leadership and moving past the ‘Boys Club’ mentality While progress has been made supporting women into leadership roles, the top table of most businesses are still dominated by men.
25 July 2025
Method to Meaning: Why complex transformations no longer deliver The majority of transformations still fail, falling down amid complications moving from frameworks to capability, and from strategy to execution.
24 July 2025
EY-Parthenon CEO Outlook finds geopolitical tension at top of corporate agenda UK CEOs are adjusting their strategic investment plans as geopolitical, macroeconomic and trade uncertainties continue to disrupt global markets.
28 May 2025
Global CEOs see crisis as opportunity amid chaotic global market CEOs of the world’s largest companies feel more ready than ever to benefit from current economic, technological, and geopolitical challenges.
01 May 2025
How bosses can bridge the optimism gap with their workers While leaders may see expanding opportunities and improving market conditions, employees often face financial pressures, job security concerns, and anxieties around the evolving workplace.
24 February 2025
Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership The leadership book has long been a staple of the management consulting profession.
21 February 2025
C-Suite and VP-Level are at odds on Gen AI New research from Publicis Sapient and iResearch has found a disconnect between executives and their leading managers relating to Gen AI.
28 November 2024
Tensions rise between boards and executives as disruption grows Directors on boards at some of the world’s largest firms lack confidence in their company’s ability to turn disruptions into opportunities.
26 November 2024
How Project One helped Elgin boost its leadership capability development When solar firm Elgin determined it needed help preparing its leadership structures for scaling, it tapped Project One for help.
12 November 2024
Half of global C-suite believes regenerative business models 'not working' Global research has found that over half of executives do not believe efforts to make their business ‘regenerative’ are working.
20 October 2023
Leaders must collaborate in face of global crises Dog-eat-dog business will no-longer cut the mustard when it comes to the private sector addressing systemic crises such as climate change.
09 October 2023
Successful CEO mindsets similar to professional athletes While physically their jobs might be worlds apart, sports stars and business leaders have more in common than at first glance, according to a new survey.
14 June 2023
ESG as important as profit to three-quarters of UK CEOs C-suites and financiers consider ESG vital for the survival of their businesses. A new poll shows that three-quarters of UK CEOs have brought the topic to the top of their agenda.
31 January 2023
CEOs reduce ESG and staff spending to prepare for recession A global CEO survey has shown most businesses anticipate recession in the coming 12 months.
25 October 2022
UK consultancy Liquid launches new office in Australia Communications advisory firm Liquid has opened a new office in Australia. The UK firm is expanding Down Under as it looks to grow its global presence.
24 October 2022
Mai-Britt Poulsen (BCG): ‘Trust has never been more important’ In May, Boston Consulting Group senior partner Mai-Britt Poulsen joined business and political leaders from around the world in Davos for the first in-person World Economic Forum annual meeting in tw
01 July 2022
Rebecca Stephens on lessons from the frontline of strategy execution Rebecca Stephens is a principal consultant at Skarbek Associates, and the author of the ‘Making it Happen: Lessons from the Frontline of Strategy Execution’.
24 June 2022
M&A success hinges on getting leadership teams right Do leaders matter in mergers & acquisitions? Of course they do – Max Wright (a Senior Director at WTW) explains why dealing with leadership teams is a deciding factor for transaction outcomes.
15 June 2022
Businesses reluctant to install dedicated Chief Sustainability Officer As companies around the world pursue ESG drives, the role of the c-suite in sustainability transformations is more crucial than ever.
20 April 2022
Implementing reverse mentoring to become an inclusive leader In the Newton Talks podcast, leaders from management consultancy Newton interview leaders to discuss a wide range of leadership and business topics.
18 February 2022
Two-thirds of UK CEOs to accelerate M&A agenda in 2022 The majority of UK corporates are expecting to accelerate investment and undertake mergers and acquisitions in 2022.
15 February 2022
CEOs must avoid getting caught in a bubble, says BCG's Rich Lesser Avoiding getting caught in a bubble is the key to being a successful CEO according to BCG’s former boss Rich Lesser – a lesson he learnt in driving the firm’s action on climate change.
01 November 2021
Take on organisational complexity with corporate simplification Many corporates (not just large multinationals) seem to excel in making their organisational structures unnecessarily complex by setting up more legal entities than they know what to do with.
22 October 2021
5 key steps to building organisational resilience As companies around the world look to strengthen their organisations following a pandemic and a global recession, a new report has found the five key factors for business resilience.
12 October 2021
Employee wellbeing has become a key to management success Wellbeing and employee mental health had already risen high on the business awareness agenda, before the global pandemic has made wellbeing a leadership priority.
05 October 2021
Webinar for consulting leaders: How to make projects profitable? On October 14, Deltek is hosting the ‘How to make consulting projects profitable?’ webinar. Partners and operations leaders from consultancies of all sizes are invited to participate.
01 October 2021
CMOs become increasingly responsible for business growth Marketing leads and teams are having to become more holistic in their approach, as they look to build data-driven approaches to build better informed strategies.
29 September 2021
Monitor Deloitte's UK leader lays down law on staffing An internal email from Monitor Deloitte’s UK head seems to have rubbed some staff up the wrong way, after suggesting junior staff should become “millionaires, authors or bums” if they wanted to be pi
19 July 2021

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