Wednesday, November 11th 2020
This week in
Consulting
How is the Professional Services Industry facing the current crisis?
This week’s must read
In the midst of the pandemic, professional services are one of the three top-performing sectors, along with technology, media & telecoms, and oil & gas. Nevertheless, they have to adjust their business strategies to rapidly changing market conditions and client behaviors. In this article, the authors explore the pandemic’s impact and how firms can continue to thrive despite the economic uncertainty.
This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Grant Thornton about how professional services firms have responded to the pandemic.
Thought Leadership
In this podcast, Fiona Czerniawska and Fergus Blair from Source Global Research explore the pandemic’s potential impact on the professional services sector and what could be done during this challenging period.
Despite Covid negatively impacting most consulting businesses, almost half of them expect revenue to increase in the next 12 months. An interesting report that reveals, among other things, why the partners of the top 10% of consulting businesses charge more than double the average charge-out rates for partners.
Digital technologies have created disruption across the professional services industry. In the current pandemic environment, firms need to address their digital strategy to remain competitive and deliver and exceed the value their clients are accustomed to receiving. Here are five areas firms should consider to incorporate emerging technologies into their organization.
This week’s Consulting News
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| @Becker’s Healthcare
| @PRNewswire
| @Consultancy.uk
This week’s media
AdvicePeriod Principal Larry Miles discusses his book “It’s That Simple: How to Build the Professional Service Firm of the Future” and how AdvicePeriod is reinventing wealth management.
Consulting sourcing tips
How to measure the value created in Consulting?
Let’s discuss in more detail the Value creation – the pinnacle of opportunities for the Consulting industry to deliver more.
What to look at when reviewing consulting proposals? Your Top 17 Questions Answered.
Consulting projects are all about initiative and being proactive. Starting with your winning RFP process that has attracted a score of proposals, the assessment phase now begins.
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Hélène Laffitte is the CEO of Consulting Quest, a Global Performance-Driven Consulting Platform and author of “Smart Consulting Sourcing”, a step by step guide to getting the best ROI from your consulting. With a blend of experience in Procurement and Consulting, Hélène is passionate about helping Companies create more value through Consulting.
