Johan Aurik
Managing Partner and Chairman of the board
A.T. Kearney
Q: Where is the firm today?
A: A.T. Kearney is a healthy, profitable firm and has grown by more than 50 percent since our MBO in 2006. Growth continued in 2013, particularly in North America and Asia where we saw strong double-digit growth. We are a truly global firm with a global operating model, with a distinctive brand and a unique culture that is well recognized as being noticeably different by both our clients, our people and, increasingly, by our competitors. And, we have an engaged and deeply committed global team dedicated to our continued success.
From this foundation we have launched an ambitious, new vision: By 2020, we want to be "the most admired global full-service management consulting firm, distinguished by our culture and how we work." We strive to be a firm that provides unsurpassed personal growth opportunities for our people; is recognized for co-creation of innovative ideas and high-impact results with our clients and external partners; and produces lasting benefits for the societies in which we live and work. We aim to double in size by 2020 and we firmly believe we have the heritage and distinctive culture to attract the talent to enable us to do that.
Q: How would you describe your firm's outlook for 2014?
A: We continue to see worldwide demand strengthening and expect strong performance in North America, in Asia and in the Middle East with double-digit growth. There is also a recovery underway in Europe that we see continuing, although at a slower pace than other regions of the world. In 2014, we will continue aggressively building our firm consistent with our ambitions and expect to record another year of solid growth. We recently opened an office in Bogota, Colombia, (our 58th office in 40 countries worldwide) to address increasing demand in the region from our global clients and support Colombian companies seeking to expand.
We also expect continued growth in our partnership. We increased our number of partners by over 10 percent in 2013. Nearly half of our new partners came from outside our firm and some joined as group hires from competing firms. We are increasingly seen as a distinctive firm with a unique "true partnership" ownership model of one vote per partner that provides equality, stability and resilience. This is proving particularly attractive to many high-performing experienced consultants given the continuing changes and disruption in the industry.
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