Technology major Wipro is planning a deep plunge into the global consulting market with the idea of competing with true-blue global consulting brands and IT consulting firms. In preparation for this move, the company has carried out an in-depth study on select consulting majors including Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, McKinsey and Bain & Company to understand...

Click here  to download the research paper “Every business leader would like to create a sound Strategy and have it executed well. Accomplishing this, however, remains an elusive goal for most business organizations. Devising and implementing new and innovative strategies to exploit opportunities in a competitive world is daunting. Clearly, no one strategy fits...

Sneh Sharma, Associate Product Marketing Analyst, Jobeehive asked whether laying off employees is the only measure to ensure cost cutting? Should companies not take it as a last resort to ensure trust in their employees? Her claim was substantiated by the layoff reports on www.jobeehive.com, which tracks layoffs across the globe This is what our members had to say.. Mr....

Read my other articles on www.telecomcircle.com The financial crisis that engulfed the world last year is now playing out in full proportions. This has spread to each industry and telecom industry is no exception. The impact of the recession in the western world and economic slowdown in the emerging countries is being felt in a big way by all the players in the ecosystem....

Conventional wisdom in the US holds that consulting firms like McKinsey have nothing to fear from Indian firms. The reason is that Indian firms are most unlikely to win high-end strategy and board level consulting business, at the expense of the likes of McKinsey and Bain, because the cultural barriers are way too high. There are a few reasons. First, because few Indian...

Google stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big and small, like eBay, which owns Skype, telephone companies and a string of technology start-up firms. Google Voice is an expanded version of a service previously known as GrandCentral,...

Global consultant McKinsey is understood to have asked the Government to declare houses costing up to Rs 7.5 lakh as affordable, besides allowing developers to convert industrial land for residential purpose. According to sources, in a presentation to the Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today, McKinsey has suggested that dwelling units between...

Auditing and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) maintains that it did not play any role in the alleged financial irregularities of  fraud-mauled Satyam Computer Services Limited, but is looking back at “significant lessons” from the controversy linked to accusations that its  partners rubber-stamped doctored accounts in the company. It does not expect...

Q. What do you consider the keys to effective leadership? A. The most important thing is that you treat everybody incredibly well and lead with a bit of humility. I’ve found that when I go into a company to lead it’s important to have a plan and to make that plan a simple one that everybody can understand. So even before I go into a company, or even if we’re looking...

    Sourced from Economic Times  When Roland Berger decided to set up his consultancy firm in 1967, it was largely to do with the realisation that consulting was the career for him. It was only a few years later that he saw that if he did things right, it had the potential to be really big. Today, with annual revenues of $1 billion, it is ranked the world’s fourth...