The traditional view is that when it comes to change the ITdepartment will defend its corner against all comers. But, says PiersFord, communication an...
View articleAdredour, Pitlochry, Scotland: In these days of the information superhighway consultants have options open to them unheard of even five years ago. Why...
View articleCompanies are finding that IT outsourcing is not the problem-freeoption they anticipated. But, says John Handby in this extract from hisforthcoming bo...
View articleJust as the UK government and captains of industry are waking up to the scale of the Year 2000 software problem, an even greater menace to our IT syst...
View articleSomeone else who likes a laugh is “management consultant” Emma (22), who was recently quoted in the Sunday Telegraph on how she and her pu...
View articleAn item in the Telegraph worries that Andersen clients may be paying for time spent stuck in the increasingly erratic lifts at the Arundel Court HQ. S...
View articleCorporate Information Strategy for Management Consultancies By: Patricia Walters Price: #195 Publisher: Elan Business Publishing In an age when cobble...
View articleJANUARY Big Six firms Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young seek to limit their liability by taking on limited liability partnerships in Jersey. This...
View articleAs a joyous nation celebrated the return of Bob Monkhouse’s legendary jokebooks, we were disturbed to read that the police were interviewing a m...
View articleOr why not just sod it and have a real war? I’m sick and tired of people running this country down: why can’t we get back to extolling tho...
View articleNot in the least tired of “warlike imagery” are Booz.Allen & Hamilton, who positively encourage their clients to play wargames, formi...
View articleI confess to bafflement. I do not understand why consultants get excited when a client asks them to write a proposal. As usually conceived, proposals ...
View articleThe Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn, the place where east meets west. Where 80 per cent inflation does strange things to property value...
View articleThe need to cut costs, improve customer service and get goods tomarket faster than ever is driving companies to revolutionise the way theymanage distr...
View articleCompanies with little experience of logistics tend to believe thatthey will manage better without external advice, but, says Martin Elliott,the long-t...
View articleNOVEMBER 18 Six thinking hats, London. Details, Monadnock, 0181 871 2546 18-20 Managing corporate community involvement, Ashridge. Details, Ashridge, ...
View articleThe future belongs to the independent niche consultant, some say. So check these guys out: “Any person who has used consultants will know that t...
View articleFrom the Manchester Evening News we hear of a young communications consultancy that is taking on the communications practices and winning by sticking ...
View articleAgainst the Gods By: Peter L Bernstein Price: #17.99 Publisher: Wiley It is reckoned that a grounding in statistics and probability is the best founda...
View articleI am grateful to two readers for providing material for this month’s musings and challenges. One agreed to stand in our fictional consultant Ant...
View articleUser God logged on at 12:01:00AM, Sunday, March 1 c:/>Let there be light! Unknown command. Try again c:/>Create light Done c:/>Run heaven and earth An...
View articleFrom nerd’s plaything to business tool in just a couple of years, the Internet has managed to transform itself more rapidly than any technology ...
View articleSema Group has been contracted as the supplier of IT services to TransCo, the transportation and storage division of British Gas. Sema will be respons...
View articleOn Saturday 5 October, 1996, Jill Fitzpatrick from Relate put 15 IMC volunteers through intensive training to enable them to provide a ground-breaking...
View articleNichols is the first company to be accredited by the Association for Project Management as a developer and deliverer of project management training. S...
View articleAndersen Consulting’s global revenues grew by 22 per cent from $4bn to $4.9bn in the fiscal year to the end of August 1996. The firm’s str...
View articleTCA Consulting has completed a consultancy study for Bank of Scotland. The study evaluated potential benefits of various commercial FX netting schemes...
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