Tom Spencer

Spain’s IE Business School has partnered with EY España to launch the Global Corporation Center, a new research center devoted to examining the challenges facing 21st century business organisations as a result of globalisation. A formal presentation announcing the center’s launch took place on April 8th. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Navigant has announced four senior strategic hires - Jonathan Baker, Michael D'Eramo, Patrick Maher and Amol Navathe - to the Firm's growing Healthcare practice. "... clients across the healthcare industry are trying to figure out how to deliver improved outcomes and patient satisfaction at a lower cost," said David Zito, Managing Director and practice leader for Navigant Healthcare. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

A recent report by McKinsey, the consultancy, suggests that Asia’s banks trail the rest of the world when it comes to digital banking. The slow provision of online banking services comes even as the region’s increasingly affluent consumer base looks set to drive demand for internet products linked to savings, credit cards and loans. Mobile and internet banking across Asia has jumped 35% in the past three years, according to McKinsey’s research. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Mankato, Minn. -- Tucked away in Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Wiecking Center, a little-known student-operated consulting firm based around the college’s Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate program is making a big difference for national and international businesses and organizations. The Organizational Effectiveness Research Group is a management consulting service that uses 20 Minnesota State Mankato graduate students each year to tackle variety of employee-related projects. The organisation has completed projects for organisations ranging from a NATO base in Germany to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

DELAWARE (Reuters) - AlixPartners, a leading business turnaround advisory firm, sued two former managing directors for breaching employment contracts and stealing trade secrets after they jumped to consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Eric Thompson of Singapore and Ivo Naumann of Shanghai allegedly took confidential marketing materials, client information and contacts with them to McKinsey. The pair violated their employment agreements and their duties to AlixPartners, according to the complaint filed late Wednesday in Delaware's Court of Chancery. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Healthcare organisations worldwide are struggling to provide their services in the absence of error. To provide the right drug in the right doses to the right patient at the right time using the right equipment and the right documentation. Adverse drug events have always been an issue, and continue to be of increased importance for the healthcare industry due to tight operating budgets, and new impending regulations focusing on patient safety. Deloitte argues in a new whitepaper that improved efficiency and effectiveness within the supply chain can enhance an organisation’s ability to track medication from its point of origin to the point of care. Errors that may result in loss of life and loss of significant sums of money will also be reduced. For more information, read Deloitte's whitepaper. Click here to view the article

Deloitte Consulting will take over as lead contractor of MNsure, an online sister publication of Finance & Commerce. At least $10 million in additional IT spending has been dedicated for this year, according to a preliminary budget released in mid-March. “I can’t confirm anything,” MNsure spokeswoman Jenni Bowring-McDonough said when asked about the choice. “We’ve made a decision. We’re waiting for CMS to approve it. Until it’s approved, we can’t make any announcement.” For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm, today announced that professionals have joined its Operational Transformation Practice. Cornelius Mauch and Bjorn Thomas join the firm as Senior Directors and Markus Gutberlet joins the firm as a Director. They will be based in Frankfurt. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Lloyd’s Register Group, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation and maritime classification society, has signed a five-year £36 million contract with Capgemini to deliver IT infrastructure and application services. The contract is built on an existing relationship between the two organisations dating back to 2001. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

BearingPoint, one of Europe’s leading management and technology consultancies, has opened new offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. BearingPoint aims to develop new client relationships in this strategic region. The move will also make the firm better placed to seize opportunities in this key market and accommodate the demand of its major European customers to provide local consulting services and talent. BearingPoint’s focus in the UAE will be on financial services, government and defense. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Marketing Week reports that accounting powerhouse PricewaterhouseCoopers completed its acquisition of management consulting firm Booz & Co last week. The deal added about $1.5bn (£897m) to PwC’s top line. It also threw up something of a branding issue. Echoing our thoughts from a few days ago, Marketing Week notes " ... in an act of corporate madness typical of accountants faced with branding conundrums, PwC announced last week it has rebranded [booz & Co] as ‘Strategy&’." For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

IBM has launched a number of new enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe which will help clients reduce costs and deploy cloud services with mainframe technology. The announcement includes the first System z-based integrated system, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. The new IBM Enterprise Cloud System provides an integrated platform, built upon open standards, for clients looking to rapidly develop a trusted cloud environment capable of supporting mission-critical workloads. IBM provides a new flexible utility pricing model that provides service providers with the ability to pay for Linux based mainframe cloud infrastructure over time based on consumption rather than system capacity. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

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Hi Eric, Accenture is a management consulting firm. They also provide technology services and outsourcing services. Their alliance with Crittercism appears to fall under the "technology services" part of their business. Tom

New York and San Francisco - Accenture and Crittercism, a leader in mobile application performance management, have formed an alliance to help enterprises develop and implement mobile application strategies. Accenture has also made a minority investment in Crittercism and will take a seat on the company’s Advisory Board. Accenture will become a reseller for Crittercism’s mAPM solution, making the tool available to clients alongside other elements of the Accenture Application Factory. Andrew Levy, co-founder and chief executive officer of Crittercism stated, “[w]e’re very excited about ... Accenture’s investment in Crittercism and the accompanying alliance agreements." For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

EUROPE - Accenture and Orange Business Services are getting together to provide end-to-end cloud services with the aim of helping large enterprises articulate their cloud strategy, and simplify their IT infrastructure. The two firms will launch the new initiative first in France and then in other European countries. For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

Capgemini is one of the world’s leading providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, employing more than 130,000 people across 40 countries. Capgemini is committed to corporate responsibility, sustainability and diversity for a number of reasons: hiring and retaining the best people, developing the community, and increasing the diversity of thinking in order to enhance innovation. The USA is Capgemini’s second biggest market, accounting for more than $2 billion in revenue in 2013. Capgemini's US Application Services CEO, Tim Bridges, sees Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability as central component of Capgemini's growth strategy. Although, ironically, it doesn't appear to be because he believes in Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability himself, but because he believes that millennials do. Forbes quotes Bridges as saying, “[being a] workplace of choice is [about] attracting the best talent, and to the millennials of today, that’s important. They make their selection of who they want to work for based upon whether the company has a social conscience and social responsibility profile.” For more details, read the full article. Click here to view the article

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McKinsey Insights app for Android is now available at Google Play. Released last month, the app provides the latest perspectives from McKinsey, the McKinsey Global Institute, and McKinsey Quarterly accessible on smartphone and tablet devices. Are you using Android? You can install the app from the Google Play store. Click here to view the article

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Bain is a sort after career for b-school graduates. Here is what they have to say to those of you heading to b-school: Click here to view the article

Strategy& CEO Cesare Mainardi and PwC Chairman Dennis Nally discuss how Strategy& and PwC plan to lead the way in changing the consulting industry. Click here to view the article

EY reports that it polled more than 750 professionals to explore the UK’s attitude towards networking. The research, comprising a white paper by Julia Hobsbawm, visiting Professor of Networking at London's Cass Business School, and a survey by Populus of 750 business professionals at all stages of their career, found that those at the earliest stages of their professional development have the strongest attachment to in-person networking. Liz Bingham, EY’s Managing Partner for Talent in the UK & Ireland, said: “...At its most basic level, networking is about forming and maintaining relationships and this is often best done face-to-face.” Other key findings of the survey include: Only 53% of business people value networking as professional skill Fewer than half of professionals have LinkedIn accounts Only one in four women convinced of need for women-only networks For more details, read the EY news release. Click here to view the article

As I highlighted yesterday on the Consulting Blog, PwC has completed its acquisition of Booz & Co, renaming the firm "Strategy&". To read other people's views on the acquisition, here are a list of articles: Wall Street Journal FT Business Blog PwC Press Release The Australian My views on the merger yesterday were quite negative, partly because it appears that PwC is moving quite quickly to integrate Booz & Co. Since cultural integration is a sensitive matter this would create potential for tension and flight of talent. One glimmer of hope was highlighted by The Australian yesterday. The two firms are adopting an 18 month “buy and hold’’ period designed to let partners and clients get used to the merger. Although Booz & Co has been renamed Strategy& it will continue to operate as a distinct and physically separate business co-branded with PwC as the firms develop and refine their strategy for end-to-end consulting services for major corporates. Click here to view the article