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The latest news in the consulting industry in the UK. An overview of consulting news, research and firm updates.

Steve Varley becomes EY's first global sustainability leader As part of a major reshuffle among EY’s upper echelons, Steve Varley has been named as the Big Four firm’s first global sustainability leader.
21 January 2020
Brexit anxiety helps UK consulting market hit £11 billion The growth of the UK’s management consulting industry accelerated to 8% in 2019, propelling the market’s combined revenue beyond the £11 billion mark.
20 January 2020
Business strategies to better face economic uncertainty Economists are forecasting that there is a recession on the horizon. The economy can’t be projected entirely on suspicion, particularly at a time of uncertainty surrounding the future of Brexit.
20 January 2020
Why C-suite leaders must become chief learning officers Training, learning and development, powered by a rapidly growing array of innovative edtech tools, represent a new front in the battle for competitive advantage, argue Simon Rowan and Andrew Davidson
20 January 2020
Louise Durkan joins Quantuma as Partner in Bristol office UK consultancy Quantuma has further invested in its Bristol operations with a new Partner appointment.
20 January 2020
How techniques from acting can help business leaders perform RADA Business, the commercial consultancy and training arm of the drama school RADA, is helping business professionals improvise successfully and perform in the moment in business.
17 January 2020
5 questions to ask before embarking on an agile journey There is a large amount of information about Agile and much of it is conflicting.
17 January 2020
Former Police Chief Inspector launches new consultancy Rhiannon Ivens, formerly a Police Chief Inspector, has dived into the private sector and established and launched her own consultancy, Double Back Solutions, with the strong desire to support and pro
17 January 2020
Healthcare consultancy CF appoints Mike Parish as Chair Healthcare management consultancy CF has appointed Mike Parish as Chair of the Board.
17 January 2020
OC&C Strategy Consultants enjoys bumper year The M&A team of OC&C Strategy Consultants had a busy year in 2019, having advised on 70 acquisitions around the globe, including several multi-billion transactions and IPOs.
17 January 2020
2019 saw UK retail suffer 25-year-low A new industry report has found that Britain’s retail growth is currently enduring its worst performance since the 1990s.
16 January 2020
SAP SuccessFactors helps EY to transform HR structure Having doubled its headcount in five years, Big Four firm EY needed to overhaul its internal human resources systems to on-board and support its 290,000 global staff.
16 January 2020
PwC opens largest UK regional office in Birmingham Professional services firm PwC has moved its 2,000 Birmingham staff into a new office at One Chamberlain Square.
16 January 2020
Deloitte Partner Tom Scampion joins AlixPartners in London AlixPartners has appointed Tom Scampion as a Managing Director in its London office.
16 January 2020
Equal pay to be realised after 2277 at present rate An damning new report from the World Economic Forum has warned that the gender pay gap will not be closed for more than two centuries, if the present rate of progress does not improve.
15 January 2020
Korn Ferry's Sarah Chorus on the courage needed for D&I change While the importance of diversity and inclusion is broadly agreed upon by the majority of business leaders, many organisations still fall short of living up to their commitments.
15 January 2020
Leven Car Company appoints Leonard Curtis administrator Leven Car Company, a car dealership group in Scotland, has gone into administration, leaving nearly 140 staff facing possible redundancy.
15 January 2020
Mazars advises JW Crowther & Son on sale A historic winter maintenance and cleansing business based in Leeds has been sold to an Essex-headquartered company for an undisclosed fee.
15 January 2020
Malcolm Reynolds leads Mercer's pension administration business The pension business of global consulting firm Mercer has appointed a new leader, in the shape of Malcolm Reynolds.
15 January 2020
Improving well-being decreases burnout and turnover A new report from PwC has suggested companies could boost their profitability by improving employee well-being.
14 January 2020
Deloitte Partner sacked for 'bullying' gets £125,000 legal bill A former Deloitte Partner dismissed for having “bullied” staff and charged a client for a trip to the Singapore Grand Prix has lost his challenge in London’s High Court.
14 January 2020
Beales poised for administration after KPMG review Around 1000 jobs have been placed at risk, as department store Beales has warned it could collapse into administration without a new owner.
14 January 2020
FTSE 100 CEOs out-earn average workers in three days The yawning gap between ordinary workers and their bosses has grown yet again, with new research finding that the pay of Britain's leading CEOs outstrips an average employee’s annual wage firms after
14 January 2020
Berkeley promotes Ben Wildman to Partner in New York Ben Wildman has become a Partner at The Berkeley Partnership in US, the third member of the firm’s New York partner team alongside Neil McClumpha and Christian Ingram.
14 January 2020
Consultants from 10 firms granted Chartered status Consultants from IBM, PwC, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, EY, KPMG, PPL, Arcadis, Mott MacDonald, Atkins and Gobeyond Partners have become the first in the UK to receive a Chartered Management Con
13 January 2020
Global slowdown in M&A to continue in 2020 With a number of macro-economic challenges still putting investors off splurging on M&A in 2020, the slump on global deal performance is likely to continue well into the new decade.
13 January 2020
Duff & Phelps secures future of InLink BT partner InLink collapsed into administration at the turn of the year, with the Wi-Fi and USB charging kiosk service having encountered numerous delays to its plans across the UK.
13 January 2020
Robert Coles joins board of cyber-security firm Crossword Consulting As the group prepares for a busy 2020, Crossword Cybersecurity has appointed Robert Coles as the Chair of its consulting subsidiary.
13 January 2020
Global consulting firm A.T. Kearney rebrands as Kearney Global management consulting A.T. Kearney has dropped the initials of its founder Andrew Thomas Kearney from its name, rebranding as Kearney.
12 January 2020
AI can boost financial services revenue by $140 billion Artificial intelligence brings lots of promises to the financial services industry, including a way to address the scarcity of workers who possess data analytics, cybersecurity, and AI skills.
10 January 2020
Ted Baker appoints Deloitte to probe multi-million stock overstatement Troubled fashion retailer Ted Baker has drafted in investigators from Deloitte to probe an accounting mishap that saw it overstate the value of its stock by up to £25 million.
10 January 2020
Publicis Sapient partners with Heathrow to reimagine its digital offering Digital transformation specialist Publicis Sapient has been enlisted to help Heathrow elevate its digital offering for customers.
10 January 2020

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