The strategy consulting landscape has evolved significantly over the past few months. Today, consulting firms are experimenting with different delivery models to supply their skills and resources – forging alliances new markets, joint ventures for market leadership etc. Earlier in 2010, AON went about acquiring Hewitt Associates for about $4.9 billion to strengthen...

Consulting biggies, BCG, Bain and Mckinsey are back in the limelight. Engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has already implemented two five-year plans to reposition the company, which was heavily into engineering, procurement and construction segments, with a large exposure to commodity businesses such as cement and ready-mix concrete, to a more...

Various Media sources have reported that India”s second largest telecom operator by overall subscriber base, state-owned BSNL, which has seen massive erosion in net profits and is surviving only on interests from its cash reserves, is putting up a four-pronged revival plan based on the recommendations of Boston Consulting Group (BCG). According to Financial Express,...

Following is an open forum discussion picked from our Group. Mayank Gupta asked : What all skills do I need to build to get through Consulting/Strategy industry. I am an MBA Marketing and B.Tech (Mechanical and Automation Engineering) fresher with no prior experience. In these times of recession, every where I read they have been telling to build up your skill sets....

A friend of mine, a recent graduate from one of the premier business schools in India, called me, his predicament, he is an engineer from a tier-2 engineering college in India and an MBA, and yet, he has not managed to even remotely come close to a job offer His business school finished the placement season few months back, after managing to place approximately 50 percent...

The Indian Consulting Industry has been experiencing a resurgence in the last few years. This industry has been making rapid strides in the Indian market over the last decade and has witnessed a significant increase in the number of new entrants in this field. The solitary objective of the participants in this market has been to gain maximum market share in this highly...

One of the popular career choices for engineer’s these days is consulting; I would back that statement with full throttle since I am an engineer myself.  One of the prominent reasons for engineers wanting to carve a career for themselves in the consulting industry is that unlike a technical job (which can be monotonous), consulting provides a challenging learning experience....

Boston Consulting Group will be paid as much as $7 million to advise General Motors and Chrysler as they work to pare costs and overhaul operations, according to a federal award notice. G.M., which received $13.4 billion in federal money, is trying to avoid a potential June 1 bankruptcy. Chrysler, which received $4 billion, has an April 30 deadline to pare debt and complete...

For the fifth consecutive year now, Apple has topped the list of ‘The 25 Most Innovative Companies’ in BusinessWeek’s annual special report, produced in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group. Google, Toyota Motor, Microsoft, and Nintendo round out the top five. Newcomers to this year’s top-25 list include Samsung, Volkswagen, and Coca-Cola. Not...

Sourced from Business Standard article dated 10th march 2009 On September 6, 2001, a crack McKinsey team led by Indian-born Rajat Gupta, its global CEO at that time, made a presentation to the NDA government on how to double India’s GDP growth rate to 10 per cent. Legend has it that at the end of it Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the prime minister at that time, sighed: “Woh...