ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head></head><body> <!--- TC Header --> <table border=1 bordercolor=#0098ff width="706px" cellpadding=0 > <tr style="background-color:#0098ff;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;color:white"> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight:bold"><font face="Verdana">Top-Consultant.com's &nbsp; Management Consultants' Weekly Newsletter&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10pt;" width="455px"> <div id="pane1" style="width:455px;padding:5px;border-right:solid 1px #0098ff"> <!--- date --> <div id="date1" style="font-size:8pt;color:#000080;font-weight:bold;padding:5px"> Thursday, 6th August 2009 </div> <!--- advert1 --> <div id="advert1" style="background-color:#b7dbff;padding:5px;margin-top:5px"> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=32957">Partners, Heads of Practice, VPs with teams required ...</a></div> <div><br>Consulting Point is a specialist executive recruitment firm focusing on both individual and team strategic hires. They are actively looking for management consulting teams on behalf of our clients. Salaries to £500k base + bonus + shares + Pension + PMI.<br><br> </div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=32957">Click here for more details & </a></div> </div> <!--- main news --> <div style="color:#000080;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:10px">Business & Consultancy News</div> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6013">Deloitte UK revenues down 2%</a></div> <div>Deloitte has reported business performance in the UK for the year ended 31 May 2009 with net revenues (billings excluding client disbursements) reaching £1.7 billion, the same level as in the previous year. Gross revenues were £1.97 billion, 2% lower than in 2008. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6013" >Full article>>></a></div> <div style="color:#000080;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px">Forthcoming events</div> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=419">Roles and Habits of Effective Leaders - <br>Stephen Covey - 14th October 2009, Manchester </a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Your chance to meet the internationally respected leadership authority and author of the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century.</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=417">Alexander Recruitment Campaign</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Your chance to join one of the fastest growing Public Sector Consultancies in the UK. We are recruiting a number of Senior Consultants, Programme Directors and Business Development Consultants.</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=394">Hudson & Yorke Recruitment Campaign</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Exciting opportunity to apply your consulting experience within a rapidly expanding niche practice </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=408">AT Kearney Managing Consultants: Strategy and Operations</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Opportunities for  Future leaders with deep Oil, Pharmaceutical or Central Government experience. </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=299">Project and programme management consultants</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Senior Consultant opportunities at Moorhouse Consulting monthly careers evenings in Westminster, Central London </div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://events.top-consultant.com/UK/careerconference.aspx?ID=420">A MasterClass - Nurturing Connected Leadership: Creating Agile and High Performing Organisations</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">Gobillot offers an alternative view looking at organisations to make them robust and flexible to manage change.</div> <div style="font-style:italic"></div> <br /> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.ibconsulting.org.uk/awards">Prepare to take centre stage  IB Consulting Awards</a></div> <div style="color:#0098ff">The IBC is delighted to announce the launch of its 2009 IB Consulting Awards and is calling for entries to this year s list of new and revised categories. 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However if you take recession as being shorthand for  our economic woes , and there are alternative definitions, the position is far from clear.</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6010" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6011">How to sell an initial study</a></div> <div>Many assignments depend on a preliminary study to make the case. Malcolm Sleath from coaching consultancy 12boxes shows why you need to get clients to imagine how things can be different before you ask them to fund a study.</div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6011" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <br /> <!--- advert3 --> <div id="Div5" style="background-color:#b7dbff;padding:5px;margin-top:5px"> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=34618">Revysion is looking for an Executive Associate</a></div> <div><br>This is an exciting opportunity for an Executive Associate to work in the Oil, Gas and Clean Technology Sector with regular international travel. If you ve got the right background and are looking for a new challenge this could be just what you re looking for.<br><br> </div> <div><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=34618">Click here to find out more ...</a></div> </div> &nbsp; <!--- last 3 news --> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6004">Atos Origin confirms full-year guidance despite drop in revenue</a></div> <div>Atos Origin has confirmed its full-year guidance: slight decrease in revenue, improvement in operating margin of 50 to 100 basis points compared to 2008 and positive cash flow. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6004" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=6002">Capgemini results for H1 2009 in line with targets</a></div> <div>Capgemini has reported consolidated revenues of ¬ 4,376 million for first-half 2009, virtually identical to first-half 2008. 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