ASTD’s fourth annual “BEST Awards” recognize organizations’ commitment to world-class learning and performance. read more

New award adds $378 million to CSC's quarterly announced wins. read more

The US Army’s ITES-2S contract is a 9-year program with a ceiling of $20 Billion. read more

Citigroup Career Transition and Leadership Seminar provide real-life lessons in management. read more

The contract has a seven-month base period and the company values it at $42 million. read more

Two French firms, HP and Accenture complete the top five; industry revenue and employment soared 15% in 2005. read more

CSC estimates the value of its portion of the award to be approximately $1.5 billion. read more

With a total program funding ceiling value of $19.25 billion over a period of ten years, Booz Allen is one of seven prime contractors to be selected to provide support. read more

Lord Turnbull has been appointed Senior Adviser to Booz Allen Hamilton’s UK practice and a member of the firm’s European Advisory Board. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Board of Directors has approved the election of four Managing Directors to lead the firm's worldwide business operations effective April 1, 2006. read more

Satyam Computer Services has appointed Ed Cohen, the founder and strategic leader of Booz Allen Hamilton’s corporate university, as Senior Vice President for the Satyam School of Leadership (SSL). read more

Northrop Grumman Corporation, together with Hewlett-Packard, Booz Allen Hamilton, Gateway and MCI, has been awarded an interim contract by the commonwealth of Virginia to help transform and improve the states IT infrastructure. read more

Most organisations exhibit “unhealthy” traits and behaviours that prevent them from turning decisions into action, according to new research by management consultants Booz Allen Hamilton. read more

FTI Consulting said that the business economics and strategic marketing firm, Helios Consulting Group, has joined FTI in its economic consulting segment. read more

Having integrated the consulting business of PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Business Consulting Services has recently launched a new marketing campaign to reposition the business in the eyes of its clients. read more

Mercer Oliver Wyman has appointed Paul Mee as a director in the firm's rapidly growing European Strategic IT practice. read more

Management consultancy firms are being torn apart by surging levels of staff turnover, according to new research from Top-Consultant.com. read more

It’s funny – no matter how well the rest of the consulting industry is doing, for some reason people don’t truly believe the market can be doing well again unless strategy consulting work is going through the roof. read more

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has awarded a 10-year multiple-award contract for IT application services to Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Lockheed Martin and Pragmatics. read more

Partners at OC&C; Strategy Consultants have elected Michael Jary as the firm’s Worldwide Managing Partner. read more

Consultants are rarely short of advice for others, but do they practice what they preach when it comes to creating healthy work cultures at their own organizations? Kennedy Information’s Consulting Magazine's annual Best Firms to Work For survey of thousands of consultants found several firms that were earning high praise from their toughest critics: their own employees. read more

With Management Consultancy recruitment showing no signs of letting up following a summer of strong growth, candidates are being attracted to the sector in record numbers. read more

The Board of Directors of global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has voted unanimously to extend the term of office of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ralph Shrader for an additional four years. read more

Parson Consulting has made two new leadership appointments that will further enhance the firm's capability to serve its clients. read more

Two events have really set pulses racing in the world of Management Consultancy this last week. read more

Start popping those Champagne corks – for strategy consulting is showing signs of a rebound. After almost 4 years of subdued activity at the Bs & Ms of the consulting world, strategy consultancies are finally turning a corner… and turning the recruitment pipes back on again in the process.

It’s been a lingering concern for both Partners and the City that the consulting recovery to date has been somewhat half-hearted. read more

With the UK management consultancy recruitment market having witnessed a dramatic turnaround in the last 6 months, managers at Top-Consultant have been addressing how the site can better meet the needs of both candidates and recruiters. read more

As we revealed last month, despite all the rebrandings, changes in ownership and new entrants that have hit the consulting market in the last two years, McKinsey remains the number one choice of consultancy employer. read more

Consulting Magazine has announced The Top 25 Most Influential Consultants 2004, its annual listing of influential consultants as judged by the leaders of 14 leading consulting firms. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton will begin building a collaboration infrastructure to support its staff worldwide and has awarded Internosis, a privately held IT services firm, the first phase of its Software Collaboration contract. read more

Despite all the rebrandings, changes in ownership and new entrants that have hit the consulting market in the last two years, McKinsey remains the number one choice of consultancy employer. read more

Forced departures of CEOs declined last year, although involuntary turnover remains at near-record levels, according to the third annual survey of CEO turnover at the world's 2,500 largest publicly traded corporations conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Board has elected a former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense as vice president of the firm. read more

The public sector is a sideline for many management consulting firms oriented to the Fortune 500 and large multinationals. read more

The pressure on corporate management to reduce overhead costs has intensified over the past two years, a new study by management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton found. read more

Activity in management consultancy recruitment in North America is slowly but assuredly gathering pace. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton has finalised a strategic alliance with Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS) – a division of Indian auto major Mahindra & Mahindra – to carry out defence consulting in India. read more

American Management Systems has appointed the man widely known as the founder of IBM Corporation's consulting practice to its Board of Directors. read more

Klaus Mattern has become the second German to move into the WCB Leadership team of the international management and technology consultation Booz Allen Hamilton. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton has announced that David Schneider has been elected a vice president in the firm and will lead the firm's Enterprise Resilience service offering, focusing on homeland security for government clients and helping corporations improve performance, generate growth, and enhance shareholder value. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton continues to strengthen its public sector practice in Germany with the appointment of Matthias Machnig, 43, effective 1 January, 2004. read more

The way a company responds to demands for customized products or services can make the difference between performance that leads a sector and performance that lags that of industry peers. read more

Could the best-known offshore firms (Wipro, Infosys, TPI) steal a march on the large-scale onshore firms such as Deloitte, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young or Booz Allen Hamilton? Dramatically gain market share at the expense of the established consulting brands?

That’s the issue addressed in a new report to be published by consulting industry analysts Fiona Czerniawska and Tom Rodenhauser, entitled “Offshore Consulting: Benchmarking Future Success”. read more

Telecommunications service providers facing a difficult business environment are pursuing outsourcing opportunities more aggressively than ever before. read more

For five years running, Booz Allen Hamilton has been named to US magazine Working Mother's list of “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” — the industry benchmark for family-friendly companies. read more

The world’s most famous strategy consultancies have a bullet-proof appeal as employers of choice. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a US Defense Department contract to provide support for the Royal Saudi Navy. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton has signed a three-year agreement to serve as title sponsor of the PGA TOUR's Washington, D.C. read more

BearingPoint is understood to have won a highly controversial US consulting contract to rebuild Iraq’s post-war economy. read more

Booz Allen Hamilton announced yesterday that the Military Health System has awarded the firm a multi-year contract that will support military compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). read more

The US Navy, directed by the government of Saudi Arabia, awarded Booz Allen Hamilton with a sole-source contract for naval consulting work, worth $7.9 million with options that could take it to $95.3 million, the Navy News Week reports. read more

Companies are setting higher standards of performance for chief executive officers than ever before, and CEOs are falling short in record numbers, according to the second annual survey of CEO turnover at the world's 2,500 largest publicly traded corporations released today by Booz Allen Hamilton. read more

Strategy and Technology consultants Booz Allen Hamilton this week announced the acquisition of the general management consulting assets of the former Gemini Consulting Japan (GCJ). read more

The UK comes second only to the United States in its environment for e-commerce, according to a report on the G7 countries, Sweden and Australia by Booz Allen Hamilton, supported by international business school, INSEAD.

The report, “International e-Economy Benchmarking – The World’s Most Effective Policies For The e-Economy” was commissioned in March 2002, when Booz Allen Hamilton were retained by the British Government’s Office of the E-Envoy and the Department of Trade and Industry

The project’s aims were:

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Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed Neil McArthur as European regional director of operations, with responsibility for managing European resources and infrastructure. read more

IBM has concluded its take-over of PwC Consulting for $3.5 billion with the new division, IBM Business Consulting Services, to comprise of 30,000 IBM staff and 30,000 transferring PwC Consulting employees. read more

A new study by Booz Allen Hamilton reveals CEO Job Security is declining throughout the World, with average CEO tenure declining 23% between 1995 and 2001.

The survey, conducted with the 2,500 largest publicly traded corporations, suggests growing shareholder impatience and board activism — not just in North America, but particularly in Europe, where the pace of forced CEO departure has greatly accelerated. read more

A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton shows that many sales & marketing executives at Fortune 1000 companies are disappointed by the ROI on their CRM initiatives.

The report suggests three problems that firms encounter when implementing CRM:

* plan is too technology-focused
* plan has only vague end-goals and customer segmentation
* companies fail to bring key organisational elements and processes to the CRM strategy

The entire report is available for download from:
http://extfile.bah.com/livelink/livelink/101260/?func=doc.Fetch&nodeid;=101260 read more

The high tech industry could suffer a fate similar to that of Enron according to a report by Booz Allen & Hamilton. The consultancy has drawn attention to the fact that hi-tech product manufacturers often have purchasing commitments running into billions that could feasibly outstrip market demand for their products. read more

Booz Allen & Hamilton has established a new practice to help clients integrate security into their strategic business plans. read more

The HP / Compaq merger is looking increasingly uncertain with HP`s largest shareholder having decided to oppose the deal. read more

Survey results from Giga Group and management consultancy Booz Allen & Hamilton have show that of firms using B2B exchanges, nearly half felt the exchanges had not met their expectations. read more

Booz Allen & Hamilton has released a report entitled “B2B Benchmark: The State of Electronic Exchanges.” The report states the mid-market is most likely to benefit from participation in e-marketplaces as players can learn from the mistakes of the majors. read more

Booz Allen & Hamilton has become the latest consultancy to reduce headcount in Europe, shedding a number of professional consulting staff. read more