It's been quite a few months for Lyons Consulting Group, a Chicago-based e-commerce firm. In December, the firm placed at No. 9 on Consulting magazine's inaugural list of the profession's Fastest Growing Firms with a three-year growth rate of 275 percent. Last year, the firm grew 54 percent and this year, it's projecting a more modest 25 percent growth.
Rich Lyons, CEO and president of Lyons Consulting Group, launched the firm in 2003 as more of a traditional IT implementation firm and then he started to transition it into the e-commerce space. When the market bottomed out in 2008 and 2009, Lyons says he saw the opportunity to shift gears and focus solely on the more lucrative e-commerce space. The rest, he says, was history.
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