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Going Dutch?

By ⋅ 7 October 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I wrote recently about how Spanish consulting firms have responded to collapsing domestic demand by working with local companies expanding into the South American market and with South American markets looking to build a presence in Spain. The Dutch consulting industry hasn’t had anything like such a difficult time, but it’s been tough nevertheless. The [...]

Consulting in Spain: a recipe for survival?

By ⋅ 14 September 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The Spanish consulting market is a long way from the current engines of growth in Europe, the German and Swedish markets. Its immediate past may be troubled, but it can still teach us important lessons about future success. We estimate the Spanish market for “big” consulting (work done by consulting firms with more than 50 [...]

Global versus local: the passport to consulting success

By ⋅ 21 June 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Over the last three months, we’ve interviewed around 250 people in 150 consulting firms across 35 different countries, asking them how their local market is performing, how and why that may change in the future, and what the key challenges are that they face. From the massive amount of data we collected, summarised in our [...]

It is our choices that show us as we truly are

By ⋅ 2 June 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Regular readers of this blog will know that from time to time we like to entertain ourselves by finding parallels with the consulting industry in far-flung, unexpected places. Last week’s musings on which consulting firm resembles which make of car generated considerable interest (and there’s still time to fill in our two-minute survey telling us [...]

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