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- The Big Five's future: Consolidation or fragmentation?
- The Big Five consultancies continue to change, or do they? Columnist Tom Rodenhauser predicts that while firms move toward merger, they'll continue to operate separately.Another Big Five consulting division—namely PricewaterhouseCoopers—is about to be swallowed, of that we’re sure. The wags will talk about industry consolidation, citing PwC, E&Y/Cap Gemini, and...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Investment, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting, McKinsey & Co., industry
- Technical articles 2000-08-18
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- Integrating IT With Business Goals Is Only Marginally Easier Than Reaching the Summit of Everest
- The IT industry has been going through a period of 'Soul-searching' over how effective it has been in delivering business advantage. For years, McKinsey and Gartner have been publishing articles that have questioned how well IT is managed. What made this a public debate was an article by Nicholas Carr...
- Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., IT Industry, Carr, Strategy, Management
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- The virtues of consulting myopia
- An industry magazine just named the best consulting firms to work for, but how reliable is such a list? Columnist Tom Rodenhauser says shortsightedness is what keeps consultants happy in their jobs.Consulting Magazine recently ranked the recently ranked the “10 Best Consulting Firms to Work For.” Employing the requisite data complexity...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting, industry
- Technical articles 2001-06-08
- The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Higher Business Performance
- Research by McKinsey Quarterly confirms what most have known intuitively for some time: all jobs have become more and more information-intensive--less linear and more interactive, less rule-based and more collaborative--while at the same time employees are expected to do more in less time. While technology has helped in part, it...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- The New Competitive Advantage: Web Collaboration Reaches the Tipping Point
- You can almost watch the landscape of the global economy changing. Chains of loosely connected businesses collaborating across geographies and industries are replacing monolithic, vertically integrated businesses. Speed and flexibility are supplanting size as the defining characteristics of a successful organization. In this new world, the lead...
- Tags: Web, Web-based Collaboration, WebEx Communications Inc., Knowledge Worker, Competitive Advantage, Business Structures, Strategy, Finance, Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- MM4XL - Marketing Manager for Excel (exe)
- Marketing Manager for Excel (MM4XL) is an Excel add-in program designed by marketing experts, statisticians, and mathematicians to fosters strategic thinking in business decision-makers. The new release 7.0 introduces new analytical tools while existing tools have been enhanced. Among the tools available in MM4XL: Forecast Manager, CrossTab, Sample Manager, Proportion...
- Tags: Analyst, Tool, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Marketing Research, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-01-09
- The battle for online banking: Lessons from the consumer market
- Businesses still leery of online financial services are anxiously watching how the battle for online consumer markets will play out. Here, we examine the issues that will reach past the consumer market and into the business marketplace.Internet and brick-and-mortar banks are fiercely fighting for market share in the new consumer...
- Tags: Financial services, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Randi Rowe, bank, virtual bank, online banking
- Technical articles 2000-02-25
- E-consultants bashed? Deja vu all over again
- In his weekly column, Tom Rodenhauser, president and founder of Consulting Information Services, follows trends in e-services and management consulting. This week, he examines Scient's recent tongue-lashing from the media.Pity poor Scient. Two years ago, it was the poster child of hip consultancies. Now it takes a browbeating from the...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tom Rodenhauser, Business Week, Scient, E-consultants, consulting
- Technical articles 2000-07-14
- Big vs. small: The real difference among consulting firms
- The biggest consulting firms do employ some of the sharpest minds in the business. But as columnist Tom Rodenhauser points out, the little guys don't have the option of riding the coattails of a big brand-name firm—they have to sell solid expertise.“My son, who’s a lawyer, says I shouldn’t put...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting, consulting company
- Technical articles 2001-03-02
- Can consultants follow the casual flow of dress in the workplace?
- The standards of proper business attire are changing, but whether consultants should follow suit is not so cut and dry. Author Ann Marie Sabath argues that dressing down may prevent you from ever rising to the top.Even as large consulting firms begin to loosen up their collars, the rest of...
- Tags: Outsourcing, workplace, Beth Blakely, Ann Marie Sabath, Beyond Business Casual
- Technical articles 2000-09-25
- Defending consulting's honor
- The moniker "business advisor" has become rather pervasive these days. But columnist Tom Rodenhauser says that until the consulting industry melds IT advisors with traditional consultants, the term is an empty vessel.Almost three years ago, Computer Associates CA tried and failed to swallow up Computer Sciences Corporation CSC. It was...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tom Rodenhauser, Computer Sciences Corp., consulting, advisor, Computer Associates International Inc., consulting industry
- Technical articles 2001-03-09
- Down market offers an opportunity for more options
- Are you still feeling down about the tumble taken by your stock options? In this week's Tech Watch, Bob Weinstein offers suggestions on how to leverage your high value as a high-tech worker when negotiating a raise, which could include even more options.Despair! Despair! Your options—which were delivered to you...
- Tags: Benefits, Stock options, Investment, Financial accounting, Bob Weinstein, compensation, stock
- Technical articles 2000-08-23
- The technology behind knowledge management
- We asked several analysts what tools and approaches they recommend for implementing knowledge management. Here's what they told us.Even with a knowledge management KM strategy in place, the choices faced by CIOs in selecting supporting KM technologies can be daunting. We asked several analysts about the technologies and vendors that...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Strategy, Content management, Kevin Rayburn, consolidation, knowledge management, knowledge, document management
- Technical articles 2000-03-21
- Engineering job market is still solid
- The job market for engineering grads is still relatively strong. If you're considering hiring such a graduate, this week's TechWatch will give you the lowdown on which regions hold the most promise of available, employable engineering talent.Despite a shaky technology job market, the outlook is surprisingly good for most engineering...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Bob Weinstein, job, California Institute of Technology, hiring
- Technical articles 2001-06-13
- Internet consulting's quest for perfection
- In his weekly column, Tom Rodenhauser, president and founder of Consulting Information Services, follows trends in e-services and management consulting. This week, he tackles Internet consulting.A colleague of mine presented an interesting scenario the other day. What if all those consulting firms that are heavily involved in “e-transformations” have actually...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Internet, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting, Internet consulting
- Technical articles 2000-06-02
- Conflicting virtues: Honor or objectivity
- In his weekly column, Tom Rodenhauser, president and founder of Consulting Information Services, follows trends in e-services and management consulting. This week features a look at the possible loss of objectivity by consultancies.Fortune magazine provides a glimpse at consulting’s fuzzy future in the current issue (“Old Consultants Never Die: They...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting, objectivity, Fortune Magazine
- Technical articles 2000-06-09
- Noodle on this before choosing outsourced "experts"
- I'm in the process of remodeling a home. It was built in 1963 by an architect who my wife and I have always admired and we bought it about 3 months ago. At the time we recognized it was a true fixer-upper. Since then we...
- Tags: Outsourcing Company, Outsource, Upshot, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Older, wiser CIOs will be in demand
- New hiring trends bode well for experienced CIOs and senior IT leaders looking to advance. Find out why hiring managers in IT, who once considered those aged 35 'too old,' will be chasing and recruiting the 50-and-over professional this year.Attention CIOs: Hold the hair dye. A new human resource study...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Beth Blakely, hiring, Drake Beam Morin, worker, older Worker
- Technical articles 2002-02-27
- What's in a name? A lot, if you're an e-consultant
- E-business has, no doubt, changed the face of the traditional consulting model. And as columnist Tom Rodenhauser explains, that's why today's firms are opting for hip, snazzy monikers rather than names that evoke the snooty, old-guard mentality.In an episode of the old TV series M*A*S*H, the commanding officer’s neophyte clerk,...
- Tags: Outsourcing, e-business, consulting industry, Tom Rodenhauser, consulting
- Technical articles 2001-01-26
- Management Consultants World Conference Report
- Last week's international conference on management consulting in Berlin was definitely Eurocentric and failed to acknowledge the power of the Internet in consulting, writes columnist Tom Rodenhauser. Read his report on the event.The Management Consultants World Conference, a triennial event held in Berlin last week, attempts to stitch together the...
- Tags: Strategy, Arthur Andersen, Tom Rodenhauser, Andersen Consulting
- Technical articles 2000-10-13
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