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The bleak mid-winter of public sector consulting

By ⋅ 17 February 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

2011 turned out to be another difficult year for public sector consultants in the UK, with little improvement even on the horizon, our research shows.  A “nuclear winter” was how one firm characterised it.  Some money is still being spent on consultants, particularly on new technology, security and international aid, but there’s also been a [...]

Body-shopping after the recession

By ⋅ 3 March 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

As part of the research for our forthcoming report on the European consulting market, we’re in the process of interviewing literally hundreds of consulting firms across the region, from the biggest strategy firms to local specialists. And one thing that has struck me so far is the relentless rise of body-shopping, where clients define their [...]

Re-inventing public sector consulting

By ⋅ 10 November 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The fall in public sector expenditure on consultants in the UK since June’s election has been steeper and sharper than anyone expected. And it’s not stopping there: two thirds of senior public sector managers expect it to continue falling over the next year, our research has found. But what should really be giving consulting firms [...]

Sir Philip Green: a role model for consultants?

By ⋅ 18 October 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Leaving aside the outrage we may feel as tax-payers at the money wasted by government through fragmented procurement, Sir Philip Green’s report is a model of clear, uncompromising communication. In contrast to much government-sponsored material, the 33-page document is short, sharp and shocking, with each argument evidenced by a small number of salient facts. In [...]

Public sector consulting: the great detox

By ⋅ 14 October 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Our latest survey of quarterly buying trends gives an idea of just how fast public sector consulting is changing. It’s a point we’ll be exploring further in a report to be published later in the autumn, but we included a few extra questions in our standard quarterly survey, just to test the water, with interesting [...]

McKinsey and the NHS: The missing link

By ⋅ 4 June 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

There was a big fuss in the UK last year when the findings of a report by McKinsey on cutting costs in the National Health Service were leaked to the press. It was proposed that 137,000 clinical and admin posts would be cut in order to save £20bn by 2014. Vilified by the press, the [...]

In the balance

By ⋅ 1 February 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

If we look for a moment at the UK consulting industry (every country is a bit different), we can divide it into three parts. On one side of the scales is the market in financial services; on the other is that in the public sector. Each of these markets is similar in size: in the [...]

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