Press releases

In many organisations, the approach to managing IT expenditure has not kept pace with the shift in the IT cost base and does not take into account the limited control the IT department may now have over its costs. Across-the-board cuts in IT expenditure are tempting but they also risk damaging an organisation’s long-term prospects for recovery and will limit its ability to make savings elsewhere. Read more

This is an interesting time for property services consultants, as it is for any firm connected with the property market. Demand is returning to a quiet market – one in which development had ground to a halt and sellers had all but shut up shop – and is now starting to outstrip supply by some margin. What that creates is a market that isn’t really buoyant by normal standards, but one in which the basic laws of economics are forcing prices upwards again. Read more

A resurgent financial services sector is starting to offer some good news to the management consulting industry, according to Source's most recent report into Quarterly Trends in Consultancy Buying. Read more

Virgin Media was announced as the winner of the Consultancy Buyer Awards 2009 in a ceremony on 22nd September. The awards, sponsored by BT Global Services and run in association with The Sunday Times, recognise excellence in the procurement and use of management consultancy.  Read more

A year on from the demise of Lehman Brothers, toxic assets may no longer be in the headlines, but they have not disappeared. Despite the billions of dollars and pounds made available by governments across the world, they continue to be a barrier to economic recovery. Read more

Misinformation is rife in the consulting marketplace and nowhere more so than in relation to prices. Some organisations agree predetermined minimum rates with consulting firms, especially if they have a preferred supplier list in place, but how do they know what the market price would be for a particular assignment? And does this vary across different consulting services? Read more

Change management is an amorphous area of management consulting that isn't easily subjected to analysis, but Source's new briefing note on the subject attempts to do just that; providing buyers and users of change management consultancy with insights into the sort of things that should be considered when selecting a consulting firm, and offering an overview of which firms do what.  Read more

As recession bites, organisations are looking at supply chains with an increased sense of urgency. Some are simply trying to take costs out of their supply chain. Others are in defensive mode - trying to assess, and sometimes shore up, the stability of suppliers. Our new briefing note offers advice about choosing a consulting firm for supply chain advice and helps you to work out which firm is right for you. Read more

Consulting firm Egremont Group recently launched the results of its survey into the head office of the future at a breakfast briefing held in association with HR Magazine.  Read more

Source has just published the latest in its new series of briefing notes. The latest note, the fourth that has been offered free of charge as part of a trial period, looks at the subject of programme management. Read more