http://www.consultingmag.com en-us http://www.consultingmag.com N/A ConsultingMag@kennedyinfo.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:36:10 -0400 20 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/398/1/Robert-Suh---Accenture/Robert-Suh---Accenture.html The knock against Accenture is the same one consulting rivals have thumped out for more than half a decade. editor@kennedyinfo.com (Jack Sweeney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/397/1/Sylvester-Schieber---Watson-Wyatt-Worldwide/Sylvester-Schieber---Watson-Wyatt-Worldwide.html At a time when “thought leadership” flows trippingly off too many tongues too quickly in the consulting profession, Watson Wyatt Worldwide Director of U.S. Benefits Consulting Sylvester Schieber simply rolls his eyes at the term. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/396/1/Rodney-Rogers---Adjoined-Consulting/Rodney-Rogers---Adjoined-Consulting.html Adjoined Consulting CEO Rodney Rogers launched his firm in 2000 based on the principles of “efficient consulting.” Given how, and where, the former Accenture consultant internalized those principles, “empathetic consulting” seems an equally fitting description of Adjoined’s approach. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/395/1/Robert-Pryor---Capgemini-Energy-LP/Robert-Pryor---Capgemini-Energy-LP.html Capgemini CEO Chell Smith foresees a day when utility companies — under pressure to reduce costs — turn to outside providers to manage their back-office processes. In May 2004, Capgemini took a first, dramatic step toward that goal by forming Capgemini Energy LP, a joint venture with TXU Corp. that began when the consulting firm won a 10-year contract to manage back-office operations for the energy giant — the largest business process outsourcing deal in the history of the utility industry. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Stacy Collett) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/394/1/Stephen-Pratt---Infosys/Stephen-Pratt---Infosys.html Two years ago, a couple of thoughts struck Stephen Pratt, then a partner with Deloitte Consulting, as he scanned a high-tech client’s office filled with 200 of his consultants pecking away on their laptops: Our consultants are miserable from the standard cross-country commute and hotel existence we subject them to. And, Our bills are making our client miserable. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/393/1/Paul-Laudicina---AT-Kearney/Paul-Laudicina---AT-Kearney.html In 1992, long before Vicente Fox Quesada became president of Mexico, before Jose Manuel Barozzo led the European Commission, before U.S. trade representative Bob Zelick joined the Bush Administration — they were inextricably linked together by Paul Laudicina. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Stacy Collett) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/391/1/Saul-Berman---IBM-Business-Consulting-Services/Saul-Berman---IBM-Business-Consulting-Services.html It was a classic bad news, good news situation. Back in the pre-Napster days, Saul Berman told a music industry client that some customers would soon be downloading the company’s product — without paying for it. The client immediately envisioned a worst-case scenario. “They thought that it was the end of the world,” Berman recalls. “They couldn’t understand how they were going to make any money if customers were getting music for free.” kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Laton McCartney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/320/1/Mike-Marni---McKinsey--Company/Mike-Marni---McKinsey--Company.html When it comes to pricing tactics, you would imagine that airlines are among the most strategic of businesses. Not so, according to Mike Marn, who says that too often top airlines pursue pricing initiatives only on a transaction level, and fail to elevate pricing to a product market or strategy one. editor@kennedyinfo.com (Jack Sweeney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/319/1/Neil-de-Crescenzo---IBM/Neil-de-Crescenzo---IBM.html Recently, Neil de Crescenzo, IBM’s healthcare industry leader, spent the day at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) wrapping up an agreement worth $402 million calling for IBM to reengineer the hospital’s technology infrastructure. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Laton McCartney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/318/1/Miki-Tsusaka---Boston-Consulting-Group/Miki-Tsusaka---Boston-Consulting-Group.html In a 2003 BCG report titled “Winning Through Mergers in Lean Times: the Hidden Power of Mergers & Acquisitions in Periods of Below-Average Economic Growth,” Miki Tsusaka is cited as an expert contributor. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Alan Radding) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/317/1/Michael-Schroeck---IBM/Michael-Schroeck---IBM.html A decade or so ago, when Michael Schroeck began promoting Business Intelligence (BI), it was a second-tier, stand-alone technology that seemingly didn’t have more than marginal value. Today, BI has finally gained widespread traction in the corporate world and is viewed as a critical strategic resource by many CEOs. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Laton McCartney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/316/1/Mark-Gottfredson---Bain--Company/Mark-Gottfredson---Bain--Company.html Mark Gottfredson, partner and cohead of Bain & Co.’s capabilities sourcing practice, missed the recent wrenching downturn in the consulting industry. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Alan Radding) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/314/1/Gary-Holdren---Huron-Consulting-Group/Gary-Holdren---Huron-Consulting-Group.html kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/313/1/Jerry-Greenberg---Sapient/Jerry-Greenberg---Sapient.html When the dot-com business began self-destructing in 2001, Sapient's future hung in the balance. “When things got bad, we had two choices,” recalls Jerry Greenberg, who, with co-CEO Stuart Moore, cofounded the business and IT consulting firm 14 years ago with their life savings. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Laton McCartney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/312/1/Greg-Baroni---Unisys-Corp/Greg-Baroni---Unisys-Corp.html Not many Type-A personalities in the consulting industry would pass up the chance to write history. Far fewer would be successful at such a daunting task. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Stacy Collett) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/311/1/Douglas-Lattner---Deloitte/Doug-Lattner---Deloitte.html Back in 1975, when Doug Lattner joined Deloitte & Touche, he recalls being one of the firm’s first graduate recruits. editor@kennedyinfo.com (Jack Sweeney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/310/1/John-Drzik---Mercer-Oliver-Wyman/John-Drzik---Mercer-Oliver-Wyman.html Creating an elite boutique consulting firm and cultivating it into a global power is relatively simple. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/309/1/Diane-Davies---Deloitte/Diane-Davies---Deloitte.html Deloitte had been making a special effort to attract and retain top women consultants for 10 years when the company, in December 2003, asked Diane Davies, principal, to head up the effort nationally. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Alan Radding) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/308/1/Cesare-Mainardit---Booz-Allen/Cesare-Mainardit---Booz-Allen.html As head of Booz Allen’s North American commercial sector business, Cesare Mainardi, senior vice president, is credited with the unit’s 50 percent increase in revenue contribution. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Alan Radding) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/306/1/Brent-Longnecker---Deloitte--Touche/Brent-Longnecker---Deloitte--Touche.html Brent Longnecker has authored six books and more than 200 articles on executive compensation and corporate governance, but his most valuable piece of writing was furiously scrawled onto an airsickness bag. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/305/1/Dennis-Doughty---Booz-Allen-Hamilton/Dennis-Doughty---Booz-Allen-Hamilton.html Asked to discuss career milestones, it’s not uncommon for a top consultant to slice his career history into two distinct chapters: one before making partner, the other after.. editor@kennedyinfo.com (Jack Sweeney) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/304/1/Angelo-Mazzocchi---BearingPoint/Angelo-Mazzocchi---BearingPoint.html Angelo Mazzocchi likes a challenge. The Milan, Italy–born managing director of BearingPoint Latin America, who speaks fluent Italian, English, and Portuguese, is accustomed to working in multicultural environments, too. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Stacy Collett) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/303/1/Adam-Gutstein---DiamondCluster/Adam-Gutstein---DiamondCluster.html If Adam Gutstein, president of DiamondCluster International and managing partner of its European and Latin American operations, were just a few inches taller, he might have pursued his high school dream of playing basketball in the NBA. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Alan Radding) Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/315/1/Michael-Travis---Hitachi-Consulting/Michael-Travis---Hitachi-Consulting.html A complex, multinational technology project may have accelerated Michael Travis’s leadership development, but people — the employees and clients he works with — have added the most value to his career. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.consultingmag.com/articles/307/1/Chris-Zook---Bain--Company/Chris-Zook---Bain--Company.html When discussing his work, Bain & Company director Chris Zook sounds like a corporate anthropologist who pries open organizations and scrutinizes their endless shards of data as a way of unearthing solutions to problems that can wipe out entire business sectors. kechols@kennedyinfo.com (Eric Krell) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500