Rankings

• »Best Firms to Work For 2009 This year’s Best Firms to Work For have truly distinguished themselves as the profession’s premier employers of choice. First, to receive this honor, they competed against the largest ever pool of participants (236 consultancies, up 13 percent from last year’s record high). Second, they are recognized for prioritizing their consultants’ job and their entire workforces despite challenging economic conditions.

• »The Best Places to Stay, 2009 Who came out on top, in our annual look at consultants’ favorite hotels, airline and car rental companies?

• »Seven Small Jewels 2009: The Hidden Gems of the Profession Small firms are no longer flying under the radar. In these uncertain times, that much we can be sure of.

Interviews

• »Consulting One on One with Romil Bahl In the January/February edition of Consulting, we examined how American Express is formalizing a consulting business around the data mining and analytics it is performing based on its unique access to aggregated consumer credit card usage information. In a similar vain, PRGX (formerly PRGX-Schultz) is looking to expand its consulting offerings by data mining the aggregated data it has collected on the business-to-business transactions in the retail and healthcare markets as part of its profit recovery audit business. To learn more, Consulting’s One on One sat down with PRGX CEO Romil Bahl. Bahl joined the firm a year ago. He previously co- founded Infosys and was recognized by Consulting as one of the Top 25 consultants in 2007.
• »One on One with OMNI's Frank Bernhard The merger and acquisition market is way down from its peak a few years ago, but there are still significant consulting opportunities for well-positioned firms. To better understand the upside to the down M&A market, Consulting’s One-on-One sat down with Frank Bernhard, OMNI Consulting Group’s managing principal for its telecommunications, media and technology practice. His 20 year-old M&A firm grew by 7.8 percent in 2009, far outpacing the sluggish market.
• »Out of Office: Roz Savage After 11 years as an IT consultant, Roz Savage knew she wanted to take her life in a new direction. But little did she realize she’d be charting a new course in a kayak.
• »Ingenix CEO Says He’s Bullish On Healthcare Opportunities In November, John Nackel was named CEO and executive vice president of Ingenix Consulting, a 1,000-person firm providing services focused on hospitals, health plans, physicians, employers, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies. Consulting sat down with him to discuss the healthcare marketplace.

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