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

PwC: Oil prices to drop dramatically due to shale oil According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the world's most influential analyst in the area of oil prices, the price of oil will rise the coming two decades to $133 per barrel in 2035. The large majority of others analysts, such as analis
14 May 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
Ernst & Young: Sales professionals show more unethical behavior Business Sales professionals act a lot more unethical than their colleagues in for example Finance, Supply chain and Marketing. Almost 28% of sales professionals indicated that they give personal gifts / services to customers to win and maintain busine
13 May 2013
Simon-Kucher: 90 percent online content behind paywall in 2016 Bad news for internet junks that mass consume free content. Within three years, around 90% of high-quality online content will be behind paywalls, expects Simon-Kucher & Partners. The consulting firm bases
10 May 2013
Roland Berger Chief Executive Martin Wittig backs down The CEO of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Martin Wittig (49) has resigned as CEO of the German strategy consulting firm. This he announced during an international partner meeting last Saturday
10 May 2013
Luc Luyten new head of Bain & Company in Middle East Bain & Company has appointed Luc Luyten to Managing Director of the firm's Middle East region. Luyten, who works more than 25 years for the strategy consulting firm, currently is the head of Bain's EMEA Industrial Goods & Services Practice. He
08 May 2013
BCG: Hospitals earn too much on medical mistakes It is beneficial for U.S. hospitals when doctors make mistakes. Because they earn more on patients who need additional treatments to undo medical mistakes. This remarkable finding comes from a study by Boston Co
07 May 2013
Declining budgets trend in management consulting Large companies will in the coming years continue to reduce their budgets for external management consultants. This concludes boutique firm AAIM based on a risk analysis of the consulting industry.
06 May 2013
Accenture builds digital marketing platform for Unilever Accenture has built and implemented a new digital social platform for Unilever that will help connect its marketers, brand managers and partners in 190 countries.
06 May 2013
Robert Haas head of AT Kearney Private Equity U.S. Global management consultancy A.T. Kearney has appointed Robert Haas as Managing Director of the firm's Private Equity Practice in America region. He currently is the lead of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice in the Americas, a role which
03 May 2013
BCG opens offices in Montreal, Seattle and Bogota The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has recently opened three new offices - in Montreal, Seattle, and Bogotá. With the new office locations the global management consulting firm increases its footprint
02 May 2013
Capgemini Consulting: Gaming in transformation trend Two-thirds of digital transformation projects fail mainly due to workforce behavioral issues.
02 May 2013
PwC favorite in takeover Roland Berger Strategy Consultants In late March it was announced that Deloitte Consulting was close to an acquisition of Roland Berger. According to the latest reports, the transaction may, just as it did two years ago, e
01 May 2013
Deloitte investigates large scale money laundering The three largest private banks in India - ICICI, HDFC and Axis - have appointed Deloitte to conduct an independent inquiry into the allegations that the lenders have supported money laundering. The move comes after an onl
26 April 2013
Scandinavian consulting market grows with 2 percent The ongoing crisis also affects the Scandinavian consulting market.
24 April 2013
AT Kearney: Half of Europeans still uses a pre-paid card Half of the European mobile phone users use have a pre-paid card. In comparison, in the United States approximately three-quarters of users has a monthly subscription. From a global perspective, the market for mobile access is still dominated by pre-pa
23 April 2013
McKinsey: Chinese middle class boosts growth luxury market In 2015 Chinese consumers are good for purchasing over one-third of all luxury products in the world.
19 April 2013
McKinsey develops an organizational structure for Biocon The Indian biopharma specialist Biocon has hired global consulting giant McKinsey & Company to advise it on its new organizational structure.
18 April 2013
PwC: Private equity funded IPOs gain better returns Research by consulting firm PwC shows that over the past decade, private equity IPOs yielded better results than other stock market debuts. Between 2003 and 2012, companies that were taken public by investment companies booked
16 April 2013
Atos Consulting: Telecom must commercialise Big Data The telecom sector is going to face major strategic challenges in coming years.
16 April 2013
Accenture helps UniCredit with Finance BPO transformation UniCredit has hired Accenture to support a large finance BPO transformation program.
16 April 2013
Arthur D. Little model: Best practice innovation management Due to the increasing competition in markets, the importance of innovation continues to increase.
15 April 2013
University Rutgers pays BCG 1.1 million for strategy The American university Rutgers has hired strategy consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to develop its new strategy. The Boston Consulting Group was selected through a competitive bidding proces
15 April 2013
Retailer BinHendi chooses McKinsey based on reputation Arab retailer BinHendi Enterprises, one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the UAE, has hired McKinsey & Company to review the performance of the organization. Based on the outcome, the strategy advisory
12 April 2013
Booz and Deloitte: 20 countries with best tourist policy The German-speaking countries Switserland, Germany and Austria perform the best in the area of tourism policy.
10 April 2013
Capgemini Consulting: The 5 advantages of gamification It is commonly known that failing to address 'soft' factors such as leadership, resistance and skills gaps are one of the critical reasons why large transformations fail.
09 April 2013
Altran buys AirCad and expands position in aviation Altran has acquired AirCaD, a French engineering company that specializes in the design and development of luxury cabin-interior and retrofit* services for private jets. By taking over the international innovation consulting
09 April 2013
Alvarez & Marsal: Bankers in Cyprus deleted fraud evidence According to a report by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal commissioned by the Central Bank of Cyprus. Bankers in the hard-hit Bank of Cyprus have destroyed evidence about abhorrent activities
09 April 2013
6 CEOs of consulting firms in Top 50 global executives According to a study from the American website Glassdoor, Mark Zuckerberg is the best CEO in the world. He is followed by the co-executives of IT services company SAP and Dominic Barton, the head of global strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Co
09 April 2013
AT Kearney: Demographic agequake changes business landscape Within 35 years, there will be more people alive older than 60 than there are people younger than 15. This demographic "agequake" will drastically change the business landscape for firms, in particular in the 'old' Western countries. This concludes a
08 April 2013
Booz completes acquisition of Management Engineers In late February it was announced that Booz & Company had reached agreement with Management Engineers (ME) on the acquisition of the German consulting firm. Last Tuesday, the global partners of
05 April 2013
BearingPoint opens consultancy office in Ukraine BearingPoint has opened a new office in Ukraine. Andrei Kriukov, partner at the advisory firm, has been appointed as head of the Ukrainian office. He will report directly to Natalia Krasnoperova, General Director of the Moscow offi
05 April 2013

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