Hi everyone, I've been offered a role within hitachis' consulting arm and was hoping to understand a little more of how they are perceived in the market and how a brand like hitachi would look on my cv. My future aim, believe it or not is to earn big bags of money! I don't know if that is in consulting or elsewhere yet...but being in consulting means I can do a lot of stuff before finding my thing (not quite there and not sure if I'll ever reach it!)Thanks guys

If you want to earn 'big bags of money' neither Hitachi or Consulting will get you there.

That's right. The money is kept at the banks.

And there are plenty of bags at supermarkets. So...here's your ideal employer:Tesco BankHitachi makes everything from trains to vibrators and hasn't grown their consulting arm in donkeys' years. Do you think they are good?

Now that's what I call "out of the box" thinking!!Tesco Bank - The perfect match!

And Tesco sells loads of different things, so they could start a consultancy firm too. Tesco Consulting. Every Little (Bit of Performance Improvement) Helps.

Tesco ELBOPIH - for the brave.(Pronounced Elbow-Pee)

Would te client accumulate clubcard points and vouchers for money off their fuel bills?

No.

Would they be sent loads of coupons for stuff they have no intention of buying?

In two words: Very techie. I can provide more information if you have specific questions.

London_consultantInteresting...I've been offered as part of the management consulting silo so any info you have about the types of engagements would be most welcome. When you say very techie do you mean a focus around IT delivery as oppose to the the more advisory (it strategy, ea, it op model, etc) types of work ? Also, as mentioned, Hitachi offer a whole bunch of different services, in your capacity as a consultant if your work external/internal or both?Finally any insight into the culture would be very useful.Thanks very much

[quote]London_consultantInteresting...I've been offered as part of the management consulting silo so any info you have about the types of engagements would be most welcome. When you say very techie do you mean a focus around IT delivery as oppose to the the more advisory (it strategy, ea, it op model, etc) types of work ? Also, as mentioned, Hitachi offer a whole bunch of different services, in your capacity as a consultant if your work external/internal or both?Finally any insight into the culture would be very useful.Thanks very much[/quote]To my knowledge, the work is focused on IT build and delivery (which would also be more congruent with how the market perceives them). This is not to say that there aren't any of the advisory-type projects you described, I haven't come across them though.With being more techie comes an atmosphere in the More London office that could certainly be described as being on the relaxed side, especially in comparison with some other larger places not too far down the road ;)

[quote]And there are plenty of bags at supermarkets. So...here's your ideal employer:Tesco BankHitachi makes everything from trains to vibrators and hasn't grown their consulting arm in donkeys' years. Do you think they are good?[/quote]According to my many female friends, Hitachi vibrators are the best.

Rather late response... The management consulting arm of Hitachi Consulting is in essence what used to be Celerant Consulting (operations consulting, implementation focused, no IT whatsoever) until early 2014