The annual ritual of the hiring fair attended by the big employers of MBAs - City banks, financial institutions and consultancy groups could soon become a thing of the past.
Many business schools, training institutions and consultancies offer educational or development programmes which still cleave to the highly individualised understanding of leadership.
Promoted heavily by academic institutions and consultancies alike, design thinking has been a big buzzword during the past decade, turning some people on and others off.
I think a more reliable route is to focus on consultancy to institutions overseas.
Groovy Gecko encodes videos for companies such as sportswear manufacturer Umbro, hosts streaming media on 600 servers throughout Europe, sets up live webstreaming events and acts as a consultancy for institutions such as the Arts Council.
A major study undertaken by a number of institutions and a leading engineering consultancy has investigated factors affecting the performance in operation of membrane bioreactors in a variety of different industrial applications.
Mr. Witthuhn is a senior associate, consulting financial institutions, in the New York office of McKinsey & Company, the management consultancy.
Recent technological improvements have led to the widespread adoption of field portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (FP-XRF) by governmental agencies, environmental consultancies and research institutions.
Furthermore, we consider the impact of collaborating with each type of partner - other firms in the supply-chain, competitors, consultancies and research institutions - on firms' level of innovation.
If, by contrast, partnerships go beyond the supply chain and involve competitors, consultancies and/or research institutions and this is repeated by multiple agents, a network emerges.
In particular, most of the responders were involved in DDM&S activities, spanning across pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, software development companies, and consultancies, which means their assessment of impact and benefits may be overestimated; the study does not allow comparative performance with other technologies or approaches.
