Monday 16th Feb, 2015
By Fiona Czerniawska The answer is easy: just about anywhere, at least in the short term. We’ve just published our projections for growth in consulting markets by sector and service across the globe, and the picture is positively buoyant. Three factors matter here.
Thursday 11th Dec, 2014
By Alison Huntington “We’re going through a transformational process at the moment because we need to be driven by our customers to a much greater extent. But, as we move into new markets and use new technologies, we’ll be asking ourselves if we really understand what our customers need. We do, and will continue to, use consultants to help us, although we’d like to rely on them less if we can. The problem with the big consultancies is that you don’t know who’s going to be shipped in or how much experience they’ll have, and they’re often not as good as you expect them to be.”
Wednesday 10th Dec, 2014
By Alison Huntington “Our challenge is to get as much oil out of the ground as possible while spending as little as possible on anything else.” That’s the oil industry in a nutshell, as summed up by the HR director of a major oil company. It sounds so simple that you’d be forgiven for wondering why oil and gas companies buy any consulting support at all. But, as our new report on consulting in the energy and resources sector makes clear, they do – to the tune of about $6.6bn - a figure we expect to grow by about 5% in 2015.
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