Visit the new VNU Web site
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Visit the new VNU Web site

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Visit the new VNU Web site

Management Consultancy’s publisher, VNU Business Publications, has revamped its Web site, making it easier for users to browse for items of part...

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Around the world - Who moved the line then?
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Around the world - Who moved the line then?

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Around the world - Who moved the line then?

Geneva, Switzerland: There are strange things afoot in the hermetically sealed world of consultancy. Consultancy is a profession that operates in a ra...

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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense
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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense

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Justinthyme?Stuff and nonsense

One Christmas bash we must mention was the unveiling of Cap Gemini’s “We value people who have a life outside work” reception displa...

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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?
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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?

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Justinthyme?What's the frequency?

Insight into the highly stressed life of the Andersen consultant comes from the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, the new Chicago office will not have ...

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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell
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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell

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Corporate fool - The Fool's farewell

Sitting astride an advert on page 49 for 12 months has left the Fool bandy-legged and sorebummed. It’s time to move on. And if the advert isn...

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Editorial - Battle for the borderland
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Editorial - Battle for the borderland

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Editorial - Battle for the borderland

Borders are interesting places, areas of great conflict but also of immense creativity. They also define relationships with almost brutal clarity: is ...

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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the move
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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the move

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Portable Computers - Comparing notes while on the ...

Different users want different things from a laptop: some simply wantto duplicate their desktop system in another location while others want towork wh...

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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming
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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming

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Justinthyme - I'm only dreaming

Kinsley Lord has called for companies to “start dreaming again” and raise their sights from the troughs of downsizing and cost-cutting. I ...

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Practice management - Short and sweet
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Practice management - Short and sweet

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Practice management - Short and sweet

I confess to bafflement. I don’t understand why consultants get excited when a client asks them to write a proposal. As usually conceived, they ...

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Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once
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Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once

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Justinthyme - Not that Net, for once

One assignment that we hope the drug-crazed Emma (See High fee-earner?) gets nowhere near is the Knight, Kavanagh and Page project for the All-England...

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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business
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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business

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IT Strategy - Winning formula focuses on business

Businesses are not getting the sharpened performance they need fromIT because of the industry's obsession with technology over businessobjectives. Dav...

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IMC approves short courses
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IMC approves short courses

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IMC approves short courses

The Civil Service College has successfully applied for IMC approval for two of its consultancy courses. Fundamental Consulting Skills and Developing C...

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IMC membership: check your own credentials and claim your certificate
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IMC membership: check your own credentials and claim your certificate

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IMC membership: check your own credentials and cla...

Many of you reading this will not be IMC qualified certified management consultants (CMCs). Being an IMC qualified member is an independent guarantee ...

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JOINING THE IMC - HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
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JOINING THE IMC - HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

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JOINING THE IMC - HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

The process of becoming a Full Member is quite rigorous and it needs to be if we are to guarantee your competence and knowledge to clients. You need a...

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Careers - Spoilt for choice
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Careers - Spoilt for choice

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Careers - Spoilt for choice

Not only does demand for IT consultants exceed supply in everysector, says Cosima Duggal, but the range of opportunities has broadened,enabling them t...

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Justinthyme - Music is the food of love
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Justinthyme - Music is the food of love

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Justinthyme - Music is the food of love

Latest recruit to the merry throng of management gurus is orchestral conductor Ben Zander, who uses song and dance to “talk to the possibility i...

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IMC:starting in consulting
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IMC:starting in consulting

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IMC:starting in consulting

The IMC produces two useful information packs for anyone considering a career in consulting. One provides advice on job seeking and issues in consulti...

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DIARY OF IMC EVENTS
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DIARY OF IMC EVENTS

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DIARY OF IMC EVENTS

DECEMBER 10. BPR/ Healthcare SIG event Patient Focused Care at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust (London) Project manager George Kempton speaks about his su...

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Mission IMC-possible
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Mission IMC-possible

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Mission IMC-possible

1997 is IMC’s 35th anniversary and we should celebrate 35 years of success in that part of our mission which aims “to be the body which qu...

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Fostering good relations
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Fostering good relations

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Fostering good relations

What would a Labour administration mean for public-sectorconsultants? The IMC's Sarah Taylor listened to the views of Derek Foster MP, who shadows Civ...

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Change management - Contending with change
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Change management - Contending with change

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Change management - Contending with change

The traditional view is that when it comes to change the ITdepartment will defend its corner against all comers. But, says PiersFord, communication an...

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Around the world - Quick, hide the agenda!
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Around the world - Quick, hide the agenda!

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Around the world - Quick, hide the agenda!

Adredour, Pitlochry, Scotland: In these days of the information superhighway consultants have options open to them unheard of even five years ago. Why...

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Outsourcing - Perfecting partnerships
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Outsourcing - Perfecting partnerships

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Outsourcing - Perfecting partnerships

Companies are finding that IT outsourcing is not the problem-freeoption they anticipated. But, says John Handby in this extract from hisforthcoming bo...

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It strategy
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It strategy

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It strategy

Just 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...

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Justinthyme - High fee-earner?
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Justinthyme - High fee-earner?

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Justinthyme - High fee-earner?

Someone else who likes a laugh is “management consultant” Emma (22), who was recently quoted in the Sunday Telegraph on how she and her pu...

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Justinthyme - An uplifting experience
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Justinthyme - An uplifting experience

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Justinthyme - An uplifting experience

An 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...

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Book review
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Book review

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Book review

Corporate Information Strategy for Management Consultancies By: Patricia Walters Price: #195 Publisher: Elan Business Publishing In an age when cobble...

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