Digital

By Fiona Czerniawska Nothing lasts for ever, certainly not upswings in the economic cycle. Yet the US consulting market, despite its size and maturity, has been growing faster than the average global rate for the last five years – and looks set to exceed the latter again in 2015 (our latest report on the US market predicts 10% growth, led by risk and regulation, and technology).

By Fiona Czerniawska

It was an innocuous question, the kind we ask clients every day: which firms did you consider for this project? The project was digital transformation – the kind of project we hear about every day, but the answer made me sit up and pay attention: “We’d invited a range of strategy and technology firms to bid, but in the end it was Accenture versus BCG.”

By Zoe Stumpf

We’ve spent the last few weeks in the Benelux region – not literally, you understand, but speaking to consultants and senior clients about the state of the market.  Doubtless to the great relief of all concerned, the conclusion of our newly-published Benelux consulting market report is that the market has at last returned to growth in 2014, albeit at a very modest level.