Client behaviour

By Alison Huntington.

There’s much to like about the German consulting market: high average revenues, greater availability of talent relative to other markets, and, at this time of year, the promise of glühwein and Christmas markets. OK, that last point isn’t one of the criteria in our market attractiveness index, but the DACH region (of which Germany is by far the largest part) has topped our ranking for two years running without even taking mulled wine into account

By Fiona Czerniawska.

We estimate that financial management and risk consulting, including all the work that’s done around regulation, accounted for around 23% of the global consulting industry in 2015. Of this, the risk and regulation part was the faster growing: 8%, compared to 6% for financial management. And of course some areas of risk, notably cybersecurity consulting, are growing at 2-3 times that rate.  More than its past performance, though, risk consulting is important for its future potential, which is huge. In the course of the last 10 years, risk has gone from being a specialist topic to something that sits squarely in the middle of the boardroom table: an area of concern to senior executives right across the business.

By Julie Ahadi

One of my less glamourous jobs post-uni was working as a temp for an advertising agency (I believe that’s how they thought of themselves), cutting and pasting classified dating ads into a Word template. I really have no idea what the purpose of that was–I was saving up to go to Israel at the time and didn’t feel like asking questions. That was until I started reading the content. Some of the things people disclosed about themselves really were quite odd.