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...

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...

    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...

Management Consulting is one of the popular and competitive career options today. Basically there are two types of consulting positions–the generalist and the specialist. Specialists offer process or functional knowledge to clients. Most aspiring consultants are interested in the generalist firms such as Bain, McKinsey and BCG. These firms offer advice to corporate...