"Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption", by Clayton Christensen and two colleagues, is a penetrating article in the October Harvard Business Review, arguing that the comfortable world of the strategy consultancies is about to be turned upside down.McKinsey's success depends above all on an unimpeachable reputation for integrity.
Tim Jones of Innovaro, a European innovation consultancy, points out that Africa is about to take the lead in using mobile phones for payments and remittances, thanks to the introduction of schemes like the M-PESA money-transfer service introduced by Vodafone and Citigroup in Kenya.
According to Accenture, a consultancy, there are about 90 smart-grid projects around the world today.
"But my husband – who works in environmental consultancy – is really annoyed about it as he has paid his taxes and it feels as if we are constantly losing out".
Brazilian-born Davies was a surprise appointment: he had never run a retail company before, but the experienced businessman, who retired from Mars after 20 years to set up his own consultancy, is excited about the prospects.
Like any business, running a law firm or consultancy is all about getting the most out of each hour slogged.
The consultancy is right, too, about the direction of change: the world's most dynamic region also happens to be the friendliest to family businesses.To understand family companies better, business analysts will need to pay more attention to their internal dynamics.
Lucy Hughes of Initiative Media, an advertising consultancy, is shown musing about the ethics of designing marketing strategies that exploit the tendency of children to nag parents to buy things, before comforting herself with the thought that she is merely performing her proper role in society.
According to the Finding Australia's Social Enterprise Sector 2016 report (authored by Barraket and the not-for-profit consultancy Social Traders), there are about 20,000 social enterprises in this country.
