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Rob Whiting 📓Nov 19, 2024

‘New controls on the use of #Consultancies across #Government are being brought in to cut unnecessary spending and save £1.2 billion by 2026 …’

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-controls-across-government-to-curb-consultancy-spend-and-save-over-12-billion-by-2026

New controls across government to curb consultancy spend and save over £1.2 billion by 2026

New controls on the use of consultancies across government are being brought in to cut unnecessary spending and save £1.2 billion by 2026, as set out in the Autumn Statement – with departments already expected to save the £550 million committed to this financial year.

GOV.UK

Technische Universität München May 15, 2024

Join the IKOM #Consulting Day on May 23 to get to know four innovative #consultancies in a relaxed atmosphere, while solving captivating case studies with other students and getting valuable advice for your application: http://go.tum.de/896661

#students #careeradvice

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IKOM Consulting Day

Gain exciting insights into consulting companies on May 23. Attendance is free for students.

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Pauline von Hellermann Oct 24, 2023

@Izadel @journalofpoliticalecology

2/2 Through this focus, we hope to make a new contribution to understanding the corporate sustainability drive - in particular the role of #Consultancies, so key in all this but rarely studied as a phenomenon in themselves.

At the same time, we hope this may be useful for graduates in #Anthropology
#Geography #PoliticalEcology etc for thinking through their own career choices, in the context of both economic precarity and #ClimateEmergency

Matthew Rimmer May 31, 2023

"We cannot have a repeat of this absolutely appalling episode, where people were monetising government secrets." Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers on PWC Breach of confidential information https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-31/jim-chalmers-pwc-members-to-be-named-publicly/102417308 #auslaw #auspol #confidentialinformation #consultancies

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says naming of PwC partners placed on leave will happen 'in time'

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the naming of partners at consulting giant PwC involved in misusing confidential government information will happen "in time".

ABC News

The Triangle Agency Mar 16, 2023

2023: How Consultancies Can Win in an Uncertain Environment https://triangleagency.co.uk/2023-how-consultancies-can-win-in-an-uncertain-environment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheTriangleAgencyNews #Consultancies #Environment #Uncertain

2023: How Consultancies Can Win in an Uncertain Environment - The Triangle Agency

In this article, we highlight four key advantages of High Growth consulting firms that we discovered in the 2023 High Growth Study: Consulting Edition.

The Triangle Agency

Tero Keski-Valkama Mar 14, 2023

#EU ‘#ForeignAgents’ law spooks #NGOs – #POLITICO

"#BRUSSELS — The #EuropeanUnion is working on a #law that would force #nongovernmental groups, #consultancies and #academic #institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on #ForeignInfluence in the #bloc, three sources confirmed to POLITICO.
The planned #legislation, which is in very early stages, echoes similar laws in #Australia and the #UnitedStates. In the #US, the #ForeignAgentsRegistrationAct has required #lobbyists working on behalf of foreign governments to register with the federal government since 1938."

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-ngo-qatargate-foreign-agents-law-disturbs-ngos/

EU ‘foreign agents’ law spooks NGOs

Georgians vigorously rejected a similar bill that was viewed as an attempt to tighten Russian control over the country in the Caucasus.

POLITICO

YasminAli Mar 6, 2023

A new book on the big consultancy firms finds that they are poor value, often have conflicts of interest, have distorted the economy, and hollowed out the state.

“To build a better-functioning economy, we must invest in state capacity and know-how, bring public purpose back to the public sector and rid the system of costly, unnecessary, consulting-industry intermediation.”
#consultancies #statecapacity

https://www.socialeurope.eu/consultants-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism

Consultants and the crisis of capitalism

Growing reliance on big consultancies is stunting state capacity and undermining democratic accountability.

Social Europe

Miguel Afonso Caetano Feb 13, 2023

#Economics #Management #Consultancies: “The Big Con of the book’s title is not a crime; it’s a confidence trick. Consultancies and outsourcers, Mazzucato argues, know less than they claim, cost more than they seem to, and — over the long term — prevent the public sector developing in-house capabilities. “We’re not against consultants. The problem is when an industry [has] no incentive to get government to be independent. A therapist who has their client in therapy forever obviously isn’t a very good therapist.” Consultants are not “neutral” about the role of the state, either, Mazzucato argues, citing their private sector work. They promoted slimming the state after 2008.”

https://www.ft.com/content/fb1254dd-a011-44cc-bde9-a434e5a09fb4

Client Challenge

Christian Findlay

Jan 3, 2023

If you know anyone who is considering hiring an app developer, I'd appreciate it if you'd share this article with them.

#softwaredevelopment #appdevelopment #hiring #consultancies #independentdeveloper

https://www.christianfindlay.com/blog/independent-software-developer-vs-software-consultancy

Hiring an Independent Software Developer vs. a Software Consultancy

Learn about the cost, efficiency, and quality differences between hiring an independent software developer versus a consultancy for your project needs