Press releases
This area contains press releases issued by Source.
Since its launch in 2007, Source has received over 200 pieces of media coverage. See our media coverage section for further information.
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Make use of Source's applied research service
If you could ask a question of the consulting market, what would it be? We collect a huge amount of data for our reports and then analyse it to pick out the main stories that we think will interest most people. But it’s impossible, in any single report, to cater for every reader’s individual requirements and so many of the stories remain hidden within the data. Read more |
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Consulting buyers switch their attention
Report tracking the largest consultancy-buyers in the UK finds a demand for services usually associated with growth against a backdrop of market contraction… To have access to this report or for more details, please contact Julie Cleasby or telephone 0845 293 0992. Read more |
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New book by Peter Smith and Source co-founder Fiona Czerniawska OUT NOW!
Public and private sector organisations are spending huge amounts of money buying professional services, and most are doing it badly, without sufficiently rigorous procurement processes or an adequate understanding of the marketplace, resulting in wasted money and disappointing outcomes. Even among those organisations with formal procurement processes and techniques, many are applying them inappropriately and therefore achieve similarly poor results. Read more |
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Consulting industry struggles to find something different to say
Marketing report finds consulting firms grappling with their key differentiator. Read more |
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Seminar: Public sector M&A
All governments tinker with their structure, but as a recent report by the National Audit Office has shown, UK governments tinker more than most and more radically. The new government is unlikely to be any different: even if it resists the temptation to change the main Whitehall departments, restructuring the plethora of non-departmental public bodies in order to cut costs is inevitable. Read more |
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Strategy firms rated highly in consulting thought leadership league table
Deloitte and IBM highest ranked non strategy firms by White Space... Read more |
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Are strategy consultants becoming an endangered species?
One of the signs of a recovering economy is increased demand for strategy consulting, as organisations shift their sights from cutting costs to growing revenue. But the surge of activity in the last few months disguises a longer-term malaise: few organisations are prepared to spend months every year developing their strategies and, with ex-consultants, higher salaries and MBAs, the quality of people available internally Read more |
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For and against preferred supplier lists
Back in 2008, a Source survey suggested that 75% of largescale clients already had preferred supplier lists (PSLs) in place and that almost everyone who didn’t, expected to implement them in the next couple of years; figures for large organisations were even higher. All the evidence suggests that this is exactly what has happened, aided by a recession and falling demand for consulting services. Read more |
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Get your free sample copy of our new Lean & Six Sigma briefing note
Lean and Six Sigma have come a long way from their routes in manufacturing and are now in widespread use across many sectors. But our research suggests that as many as a third of Lean & Six Sigma projects fail to deliver the desired outcomes. Read more |
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Source publishes new report on the future of HR consulting
HR consulting has been one of the chief casualties of the recession within the consulting industry. In the 2002-03 downturn, strategy and IT consulting suffered most. This time around, people-related consulting, irrespective of the exact hue, has been hardest hit. Read more |
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Why do we have consulting firms?
People have been advising each other since the dawn of time, but it was only in the early twentieth century that they felt the need to band together into firms. The shift was a testimony to the broadening role of the consultants and the size of organisations they were dealing with: individuals were no longer enough. But almost a century later, freelance consultants now occupy as much as 20% of the market. Read more |