Mr Grade swept in with plans to make money from selling fabulous new programmes, which were abandoned when falling advertising revenues meant no money to develop them.ITV has been doing pretty sensible things in the circumstances, says Toby Syfret of Enders Analysis, a media consultancy: cutting staff, budgets and regional costs while trying to keep investment in content as steady as possible.
Within UBHT, the PCT has provided an advisory and consultancy service to hospital staff and patients since 1992.
The new framework also draws a far clearer distinction between genuine consultancy and interim placements or staff substitution.
Management development, 'succession planning', the central strategic role of HR director Paul McHale, the recent use of the business psychology consultancy Kaisen to assess senior staff - all these things set the group apart, but at the same time are in keeping with the ethos of the business.
And viewed purely as a job opportunity, there is cheer, too, for parts of the public sector after the UK's decision to leave the European Union, with tens of millions of pounds needing to be spent on additional civil servants The UK cannot leave the EU customs union without HMRC and Border Force employing thousands more – at least 5,000 more customs staff, according to consultancy KPMG.
For example, recent research of 1,000 SMEs by IT consultancy Modis, found 20% of staff regularly sent confidential business information using unsecured wi-fi hotspots - a hacker's dream come true.
This excludes local employees of international NGOs, as well as international civil servants, technical assistants employed by bilateral donors or their implementation agencies, private consultancy companies, or international medical staff recruited by governments.
Lobbyists include in-house bank staff, public affairs consultancies, industry body representatives, law firms, and management consultants.
Working with the 1752 group, an expert consultancy set up to tackle staff-student misconduct in universities, the NUS said it would seek the views of thousands of staff and students, as well as look at how institutions treated complaints.
