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Thursday, 21th August 2008
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Business & Consultancy News
Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week talks to Mark Giles, managing director of BMG Strategy Consulting, about how the consultancy is turning the paradigms that underpin offshoring and consultancy on their heads and coming up with striking new business models.
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Asking questions can sometimes seem confrontational. But if we make the client too comfortable, how can we be sure of getting to the root of the problem? Malcolm Sleath suggests some ideas from an unlikely source.

The strong performance from Deloitte underlines its position as the second biggest of the UK's Big Four firms in terms of revenue, behind PricewaterhouseCoopers but ahead of KPMG and Ernst & Young.


Challenging career opportunities for those with strong SAP implementation backgrounds within change and transformation who are looking to take their career to the next level.
 
Britain's Logica plc reported a rise in both revenue and operating profits due to solid performances across all its markets but restructuring and amortization costs lowered its profit.

According to the latest Happiness at Work Index from international recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark, human resources professionals are facing a mounting workload as the credit crunch bites. Out of all industries represented in the Index, HR workers reported the highest increase in their workload since the start of 2008.

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Thought Leadership
Becoming a trusted advisor
It's the holy grail of Professional Services - to become a trusted advisor to your senior clients. To be viewed - and sought out - as a source of valued advice and support. But achieving this position doesn't happen overnight -- it takes time, investment of effort, and careful thought into how to manage client relationships and interactions to achieve this goal. (Ian Brodie - Lighthouse Business Consulting)


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