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BCG in pole position

By ⋅ 15 March 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is better positioned for growth than any of its major competitors. That’s one of the findings of our new report, published yesterday, into the views of more than 400 senior end-users of consulting services across Europe and the Middle East. The idea of putting any consulting firm top of a list [...]

Business analytics: the next big thing?

By ⋅ 31 May 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Business analytics is, of course, nothing new. Big Four firms and engineering consultancies have long retained small groups of economists to analyse the macro-economic environment; strategy firms have typically taken an analytical approach to assessing – say – the attractiveness of a new market. However, in all such cases, business analytics has been a back-office [...]

What’s in a name?

By ⋅ 17 July 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Quite a lot, apparently. Consultants have been grumbling about the word “consultant” since the dotcom boom-to-bust, when clients started to associate them with the type of champagne strategy which was all bubble and no substance. Consultants, alongside trendy technology companies, were held to blame for the millions squandered on unworkable e-business projects. Anxious to distance [...]

Booz, Kearney and Co

By ⋅ 4 June 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The possible merger between AT Kearney and Booz and Co has created quite a stir. So far much of the attention has been focused on what this means for the other big strategy firms. Is McKinsey, Bain or BCG likely to feel threatened? My guess is not, not least because this move – if that’s [...]

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 [...]

The relationship arms race

By ⋅ 19 May 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Interviewing people for our recent report on strategy consulting, I was struck by this phrase. Coined by Muir Sanderson at Booz in London, he was referring to the way in which consulting firms, particularly strategy ones, have been escalating their attempts to build and keep client relationships in recent years. Obviously, I’m quite tickled by [...]

A Big Four boost to strategy consulting

By ⋅ 27 April 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Many of you will have noticed that there’s a boom in strategy consulting going on. Having hunkered down for the duration of the (private sector) recession, companies are looking to see how to respond to the recovery. What has changed? How do they need to adapt? Not surprisingly, this leads to increased demand for strategy [...]

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