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Fiona Czerniawska

74% to 55%: Two statistics crucial to understanding consulting in 2018

Edward Haigh

Are management consultants really making the NHS worse?

Alison Huntington

Do Forbes’ consulting firm rankings actually help anyone?

B.J. Richards

Trump v. the ACA: inevitability takes a beating

Rachel Ainsworth

Attention spans are getting shorter. Or are they?

Zoë Stumpf

Consulting for the people, German style

Julie Ahadi

Clients’ views through the GCC looking glass

Rachel Duk

That well known fairytale of the global singing superstar and the Big Four risk consultant

Alastair Cox

Data & analytics consulting: time to take a leap

Christmas Elf

Fireside reading for the holiday season

Ashok Patel

Cybersecurity in the UK: Act now or WannaCry later

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Brexit diary

Our directors are writing a series of blog posts about the UK public's choice to leave the EU

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Market conditions

Trump v. the ACA: inevitability takes a beating

Thursday 30th November, 2017

By B.J. Richards

One of the perks of being a Source analyst is that we get to pick the brains of some of the world’s top consulting talent as a routine part of the job. And sometimes, if we’re really lucky, we get to question them on a topic that’s not only important to Source’s research but of great personal interest as well. And so it was with great anticipation that I approached my first post-election meeting with a US consulting leader in late November last year. Like many of my fellow Americans, the elevation of one Donald J. Trump to the highest office in the land had me in a state of shock: The inevitable had been thwarted, and the impossible had come to pass. It was disorienting, and I was eager to talk to someone who I believed could tell me ~*what it all meant*~

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Market conditions

UK consulting in 2017: Now more than ever, “keep calm and carry on”

Wednesday 8th March, 2017

By B.J. Richards.

“Keep calm and carry on”: The plucky little exhortation with the horrifying backstory became positively ubiquitous over the last few years, gracing countless coffee mugs and greeting cards while keeping many a London souvenir shop afloat. Irrepressibly British, the WWII-era sentiment clearly struck a chord with a recession-weary citizenry upon its rediscovery at the end of the noughties.

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Market conditions
Client behaviour

China: Not your grandpa’s kind of grown-up

Monday 21st November, 2016

By B.J. Richards.

“My grandpa is still waiting for me to grow up!” announced my good friend Josh to peals of laughter as we sat in a swanky London cocktail bar. It had been a while since we’d seen him, and we were thrilled that a speaking engagement had brought him to town. You see, Josh’s job as a professor and principal investigator at a top-ten global research institution keeps him pretty busy, so we don’t get to see him as much as we’d like.

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Market conditions
Innovation

How not to be an American Psycho: avoiding the creepy side of digitization

Thursday 30th June, 2016

By B.J. Richards.

Several months ago, I was talking with a gentleman in the fitness industry who excitedly told me about an app he’s working on. Its purpose is to encourage friendships among his gym’s members, presumably in the interest of building brand loyalty. Among the app’s many features, it will send you notifications throughout the day when someone from your favorite fitness class is nearby, “so you could maybe get together and grab a coffee or something.”

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Technology consulting
Client behaviour
IT consulting

A career track for Trekkies

Thursday 12th May, 2016

By B.J. Richards.

The management consultant and the computer nerd. Hardly the same species, it’s almost as though they are of two different worlds. One is slick, well-manicured, and effortlessly works the room in a suit that cost more than my rent. The other spends long, solitary nights hopped up on Mountain Dew, furiously tapping away at a keyboard, clad in a Cheeto-stained hoodie.

Could they ever learn to get along, to join forces for the common good? Perhaps if the fate of the world hung in the balance. How about the fate of the Benelux consulting market?

Like consulting firms in most markets, those in the Benelux region are facing a dire shortage of consultants with the digital skills they need to grow. Unable to hire, acquire, or train techy consultants as...

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Management thinking
Growth

Are Japanese businesses the bad boyfriends of the consulting world?

Tuesday 1st December, 2015
Japanese clients are a hard bunch to win over. Consulting has never taken off in that market nearly to the extent it has in other major economies, and consultants we spoke with estimate that only about half of the businesses they’d expect to be buying consulting actually are. It’s a culture that doesn’t think much of investing in intangibles like advice, and while interest is definitely picking up, this is a market that has a long way to go if consulting is ever to become the norm.
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