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  Thursday, 30th August, 2007
Building an Innovative Culture

Join Dr. Andrew Jones, Cathy Glass and fellow consultants for an evening presentation & drinks reception as we explore the risks, accountabilities & responsibilities involved when developing an innovation culture for your company.
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Business & Consultancy News
Deloitte makes a proposition
Our management consultancy columnist, Mick James, this week talks to John Reeve, head of the Major Technology Programmes service line at Deloitte UK, about how the company is developing its IT arm.

There's no such thing as a typical consultancy. Consultancy firms grow into all sorts of strange shapes and sizes, through a combination of historical accident, outside pressures and client demands. Despite this, consultants are great at making a virtue of necessity and explaining why their particular business model just happens to be the perfect approach to today's market.

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Forthcoming events

The Consultancy Careers Fair
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12th October 2007

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Careers Evenings, 12 September & 17 October

PIPC - Project and Programme Management Consultants

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Meet BT Global Consulting
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11th September 2007 and 22nd November 2007 - London

The Art of Selling Consulting Services
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9th November 2007 - London

Strategies for Success in professional service firms
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30th November 2007 - Central London

EC Harris – Supply Chain Management Consultants

Three fantastic opportunities in this dynamic and growing management consultancy team, which is dedicated to delivering high value business solutions to a senior level within client organisations. In addition to content, the work is strongly focused on behavioural change and the application of change management expertise. Click here for more details.
Q2 M&A activity in IT professional services sector up 15%
Buyouts in IT professional services sector increased with 14.7% in the second quarter of 2007, according to M&A strategic advisory firm Lyndhurst Partners.

Lyndhurst Partners have identified a total of 86 transactions in the second quarter of 2007 in the sector, detailing their findings in the current Lyndhurst Partners Review, their quarterly newsletter discussing M&A activity in the IT Professional Services sector.

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Ordina to acquire Belgium's ITG Consulting Group
The Netherlands-based Ordina said the acquisition of the Belgian business consulting group is in line with its ambition to be Belgium's Number 1 provider of Information and communications technology services in 2010. Ordina also reported a 21% increase in revenues for the first half of 2007. Full article >>>
Calling all IT Consultants

The IT consulting market is booming and so we’ve created a brand new site to meet the needs of IT consultants and employers. Why not take a look and see who’s already recruiting on TopITconsultant.com?
Lax managers and fraud costing UK business £1.3bn in employee expenses payments
The inaugural Employee Expenses Benchmark Report 2007, released by employee expenses service provider GlobalExpense, shows that British organisations are frittering away around £1.3bn on employee expenses as a result of lax managers and employee expense fraud. Full article >>>
Changing jobs the surest way for consultants to secure a pay rise
Top-Consultant.com and sister site TopITconsultant.com have this week published their annual salary benchmarking report, detailing remuneration levels and trends in the IT consulting and management consultancy sectors.

Based on detailed survey responses from over 1,600 readers, the report highlights that pay rises and bonuses in the last 12 months have been modest at best – with the biggest gainers being those who’ve secured a rise through a change of employer.
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Thought Leadership
Keeping your consultancy under control...
Perhaps one of the reasons that everyone stops to watch a professional juggler is that it is a perfect metaphor for the way that we manage our lives. Indeed it is an ideal way to describe the way that many manage their business, especially in the consultancy or professional services sector.
(Hugh Stafford-Smith - Maconomy UK)
The quest for real-time business intelligence
Today’s enterprise data warehouse is undergoing significant technology changes as the business relies more heavily on the wealth of information it can provide. The next major step in data warehousing is to enable real-time business intelligence or in other words providing an active data warehouse which provides both historical analysis as well as active tactical look-ups.
(Chris McAllister - GoldenGate Software)
Search our database of 1200+ thought leadership articles. Generate client leads by publishing articles in this newsletter. Submit articles to: sophia@top-consultant.com.
Consultants' Forum
Future after FS Consulting?
"What options does someone with 2 years at Financial Services Strategy Consulting (Deloitte) and 2 more years in other random consulting depts. has? Where could I go? I enjoy my strategy work and would like to keep doing it, but also have a 'normal' life."
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Management Consultants' Blog
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    - Deloitte launches new best practices periodical for the C-suite

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