That is not terrible by traditional consulting standards, but far below the Internet consultancies' aspirations a year ago.No more nose ringsMeanwhile, the technology industry has grown up.
Fast-tracking the implementation of new standards, building consultancies around the new implementation problems and upping the level of cross-organizational collaboration around a common cause will help.
The bill, sponsored by Paul Sarbanes, a Democrat from Maryland, would create an independent regulatory board to set book-keeping standards, limit accountants' consultancy work, discipline dodgy auditors and prevent a senior auditor from working with a public company for more than five years.
McKinsey, the biggest single recruiter in all the leading business schools, has even begun hosting dinners for gay and lesbian students.A spell working in a consultancy is fast becoming the standard route to membership of a new global elite.
Martin Stopford, a director of Clarksons, a London shipping consultancy, and author of a standard work on maritime economics, sees some limits to the benefits, since economies of scale diminish for container ships above 6,500 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units the measure for containers).
VIENNA is the best place in the world to live, according to the latest annual survey of living standards compiled by Mercer, a consultancy.
A Senate committee approved draft legislation to create an independent-oversight board to set audit standards, punish wrongdoers and limit consultancy and other non-audit work by accounting firms.
The consultancy selected school systems where it has seen standards rise and identified what they had in common.
Overseeing the makeover is French National Organization for Standardization AFNOR, a consultancy group that coordinated the establishment of national standards in France.
According to research by Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), a consultancy, North American bosses who presided over sub-standard returns in 1995 were as likely to have a lengthy stay in their posts as those who did well.
