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LPI accreditation is the globally-recognised quality mark for providers of learning products, technologies, services and facilities.


KPMG released a one-minute video yesterday teasing KPMG Lakehouse, its new $450 million training and development center that is scheduled to open next January in the Orlando community of Lake Nona..


Infosys Technologies co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani on Monday said India’s digital infrastructure will play a major role in reviving its economy..


Microsoft recently announced that it’s acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for internet of things (IoT) and edge devices powered by microcontroller units (MCUs), for an undisclosed amount..


Wednesday 10 April marked the launch of PwC Research’s latest published report, ‘The Golden Thread’, commissioned by the UK Association for Project Management (APM)..


18-Apr-2019

Tribal Group Blog - Prue Beams

Strategic Drift: Why an optimisation review is inevitable

Let’s be honest, few projects ever manage to deliver all the expected benefits or meet every stakeholders’ expectations. Implementing a new SMS is no small task, and inevitably scope changes, contingencies get spent, and there becomes a bucket of work that falls to the BAU team to be delivered under the ‘Continuous Improvement’ banner..


18-Apr-2019

ZDNet - by Joe McKendrick for Service Oriented

Artificial intelligence will jazz up the customer experience, IT leaders hope

Survey finds IT executives are turning their attention and resources to the next great frontier of corporate growth -- giving customers personalized experiences to remember..


Cognizant has been named the number one service provider to the healthcare sector in HFS Research’s HFS Top 10 Healthcare Services 2018.


CGI announced today the completion of the previously announced public tender offer of CGI Nordic Holdings Limited, its wholly owned indirect subsidiary, to acquire Acando, a leading IT management and consulting services firm in Northern Europe and Germany..


Professional services giant KPMG has announced the opening of its seventh and largest KPMG Ignition Center in the heart of the Windy City..



• Sixty-eight percent of consulting projects cost more than US company estimates
• Technology firms more likely to significantly overshoot client expectations on cost
• Discounting plays vital role in US consulting market...


KPMG became the first of the big 4 professional services firms to launch their own new gTLD on 2 April when they moved their corporate websites to their own branded top level domain, .kpmg..


The Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) and PwC have today published a new report on current trends in technology and innovation and their impact on the investment bank of the future..


While driving digital initiatives to grow revenue and business, 55% of business leaders are promoting or scaling digital business, and 51% expect to change the business model in the next three years or are already doing it..


PA Consulting (PA), the global innovation and transformation consultancy, is bringing ingenuity to life for clients and building a better, safer and more sustainable world for the future.


IBM and Oracle have reportedly been ruled out for a U.S. Defense Department contract for cloud computing services that could be worth as much as $10 billion over the course of a decade..


The Genie is out of the bottle, and nothing can be done now. It is going to transform not just your homes but your whole workplace and much more..


The number of women working in tech is significantly lower than in other UK sectors with just 17% of tech roles held by women. Yet businesses are more aware than ever before about the importance of diversity for innovation, creativity and the bottom line..


PA Consulting (PA), the global innovation and transformation consultancy, is bringing ingenuity to life for clients and building a better, safer and more sustainable world for the future. PA`s distinctive approach – helping clients to innovate and seize new opportunities – is reflected in its record financial performance in 2018..


Our research with over 2,000 A-Level and university students shows that the gender gap in technology starts at school and carries on through every stage of girls’ and women’s lives..


10-Apr-2019

PA Consulting recommends Agile method for business success

PA Consulting recommends Agile method for business success

Global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting recently conducted a survey on organizational agility, and found the strategy to be a central component of business success..


Scaling Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Industry Although AI offers vast implications for engineering, production, supply chain, customer experience, and mobility services, progress in AI-driven transformation has been sluggish and uneven due to lingering roadblocks..


KPMG is planning an overhaul of its British business to create an independent audit firm, regardless of any decision by the competition regulator to force a break-up of the Big Four accounting firms, The Times reported on Monday..


08-Apr-2019

Capgemini Consulting

Your Own Private Magic Quadrant

Dear client, if you had to rank yourself in a Magic Quadrant for data and analytics where would you position yourself? Read this blog to find out..


Today’s biggest challenges involve managing huge amounts of data and getting the most value from it while also keeping that data secure..


A perspective from Moorhouse Consulting:
Engaging a digital customer requires harnessing the power of data, embedding customer focus across the digital ecosystem, and enabling agility through a technology bedrock.


The birth and death in a single day of a proposed deal between Aon and Willis Towers Watson is a salutary reminder of the turmoil still impacting the people services and consulting sector, writes Fiona Czerniawska of Source Global Research.


As healthcare organizations rush to take on AI, it is imperative to include in the AI strategy the process-centric approach, which could be a ticket to a sustainable competitive advantage..


04-Apr-2019

MICHAEL WADE, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION PROFESSOR AT IMD AND DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL CENTER FOR DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

What Intuit Gets Right About Digital Transformation

Intuit, the financial software and services firm that brought the world QuickBooks and TurboTax, has just exceeded its earnings estimate for the fourth straight quarter in a row..


Last week was the annual RSA Conference. Estimates are that more than 45,000 security personnel, business professionals, and leaders attended the event, up from 35,000 last year. Regardless of the numbers, it was an epic display of how prevalent cybersecurity has become..


To balance the demands of improving performance while reducing costs, Trusts should look to patient flow (it has been highlighted that long NHS waiting times are killing UK productivity). By focusing on this crucial area, leadership can align to patient benefits, operational performance and financial improvements..


As AI technologies standardize across industries, becoming an AI-fueled organization will likely be table stakes for survival. And that means rethinking the way humans and machines interact within working environments..


03-Apr-2019

Marketing Technology Insights

94% of consumers are frustrated by disjointed experiences and poor

New research launched from Thunderhead reveals that two in five consumers (39%) would consider switching to another retailer after two bad experiences with a brand. The study surveyed 4,000 consumers in the US and UK to uncover what consumers today expect of brand experiences in banking, auto, insurance, telco, energy and retail..


Here`s how PwC is helping to inspire a new generation of leaders....



• The Times Consultant of the Year and winner of the Outstanding Achievement award goes to Anjum Hakim, PwC
• Project of the Year is awarded to EY with London Ventures
• 11 consultancy firms and their clients celebrate their award-winning projects transforming business and delivering better outcomes for society
• 5 individual winners celebrated with Young Consultant of the Year going to Rory MacDonagh from Arcadis.


For the second year in a row, Afiniti has been ranked among the very best, in the FT’s annual report which focusses on the UK’s top Management Consultants. Published by the Financial Times, in partnership with Statista, the report is the result of painstaking analysis of nearly 5000 management consultancies across the UK.


Data-driven advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are now set to reshape industries and regulatory frameworks around the world. Fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is remaking the very notion of innovation as countries leverage data to compete for military and commercial advantage..


When it comes to digital, the GCC has been pulling its punches, and a full-throttle digital take-off has not quite happened to the extent that it has elsewhere, writes Robert Ledger of Source Global Research.


Big Four auditor, KPMG, has released the results of its seventh annual Technology Industry Innovation Survey. The survey, of 740+ global tech leaders across twelve countries, shows an increasing belief that blockchain will change the industry..


Data is everywhere. Whether on your phone, an MRI scanner in a hospital or being generated by IoT sensors. It is essential in our hyper-connected world because it generates the foundation of a revolution which is allowing us to achieve more than ever before. However securing that data has never been more critical – or more difficult..


The UK continues to make steady progress towards gender equality in the workforce, rising from 14th to 13th place in this year’s Women in Work Index. However, deeper analysis into regional female employment prospects reveals that this progress has not been distributed equally across the UK..


A MediaCityUK-based company has been named the fastest growing management consultancy in the UK.


The GCC consulting market passed $3bn in revenues for the first time in 2018 - growing at an impressive 9.1% - largely driven by an uptick in demand in Saudi Arabia (up 12.1% to US$1.4bn in 2018).


The level of impact AI will have on the nature of work and what organisations need to do to prepare their workforce on the impact of a digital future..


There’s a revolution happening in the banking industry right now. More and more institutions are moving towards digitalising their services and improving their connectivity with their clients. It’s interesting to observe the current evolution of fintech and its impact on the many industries that it touches..


Providing access to clean and reliable energy to off-grid populations represents a massive market opportunity within the energy transition, and global energy players have started to take notice..


20-Mar-2019

MIT Technology Review

Intelligent Machines

Amazing headlines about time machines are a long way off the mark, sadly....


The global population of chief data officers has grown 100-fold, to 10,000 over the past decade as enterprises around the world race to exploit their data reserves.


Those who try to keep in touch with what is going on in the crypto world may have noticed that while initial coin offerings (ICOs) are losing their popularity, the popularity of security token offerings (STO) is increasing....


With advances in data analytics, machine-learning models and the creation of vast amounts of data, there has been an explosion in model development and deployment across every industry — financial services is no exception....


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