You're invited to join your peers and colleagues for the profession's largest networking event where together you'll explore the theme…

Rethinking Consulting Firm Management

Management consulting, by its nature, yields significant firm management challenges. Firm leaders are confronted with building and maintaining the forefront of talent quality, industry knowledge, client management and business acumen. And each of these responsibilities justifies the need for shared professional knowledge to alleviate the burden.

Its client–facing attributes make consulting a highly competitive profession, with a variety of rivalries persisting across its history. But in regard to firm management endeavors there is little that cannot be shared to help achieve success across the profession and continue to advance the goal of perfecting service delivery and improving the performance of the client community.

This is the goal of Kennedy Information’s Fall Consulting Summit 2008. Here, in this value-packed day of networking and assessment, you’ll uncover the vision of consulting firm leaders offering their firm management knowledge to the betterment of the profession.

• You’ll join luminaries such as John Drzik, Chief Executive Officer of Oliver Wyman, as he reviews the combination of three companies under a singular brand and the lessons learned from the endeavor.
• You’ll review the outlook for consulting in ‘08 and beyond with Kennedy’s Tom Rodenhauser and his annual “State of the Profession” assessment of emerging sectors, changing client requirements, global market opportunities and more.
• Take a look into the future of advisory services with IBM Global Business Services’ Managing Partner, Jim Bramante and see how the firm is building a workforce and strategy that embraces the next transformation of our profession.
• Monitor Group’s Managing Partner, Steve Jennings shares his perspective on managing your firm’s IP and the best practices in idea management and testing.
• And you’ll hear the “buy-side” perspective as Infosys CEO, Steve Pratt brings his clients to the table to share their view on improving service delivery.