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Heidrick & Struggles makes executive appointments in London

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Heidrick & Struggles makes executive appointments in London

Global human capital professional services firm Heidrick & Struggles has appointed three of its seniors in the London office to executive leadership roles.

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Accenture Vet Lauren Friedman Stat Named to Palantir Board

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Accenture Vet Lauren Friedman Stat Named to Palantir Board

Lauren Friedman Stat, a 15-year Accenture veteran, has joined the board of directors of Denver-based analytics software provider Palantir Technologies.

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Data Will Drive Change In 2021 Like Never Before

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Data Will Drive Change In 2021 Like Never Before

There are a lot of things that we can say about the year 2020. From a technology standpoint, it was a year of pressure testing. Huge shifts in working styles, education, consumer habits, and supply chains pushed digital transformation to its limits and tested our networks, cloud infrastructure, retail channels, and customer engagement systems like never before

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holiday season and beyond

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holiday season and beyond

The worldwide coronavirus lockdown has wreaked havoc among brick-and-mortar retailers. We've all heard the gloomy predictions for the retail industry; legacy businesses like J.Crew, Hertz, and J.C. Penney are now filing for bankruptcy protection and many retailers have shuttered indefinitely.

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Freelance Management Consulting In 2021

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Freelance Management Consulting In 2021

In the last few weeks, a couple of interesting new reports came out from consulting firm BCG. The first, a report with Harvard Business School, found corporate executives are increasingly comfortable using freelance management consultants, and expect greater continued use.

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First Consulting and Valcon join forces to form 500-strong group

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First Consulting and Valcon join forces to form 500-strong group

Scandinavian Valcon and First Consulting (including First Technology) have decided to join forces as part of their journey to become a leading North-Western European consulting & technology company.

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

In October 2020 the US House Antitrust Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman David Cicilline, published its report on competition in digital markets. It conducted a full review of the market from top to bottom, focusing on the dominance of the giants in the industry: Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.

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The Rise of the Management Consultant

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The Rise of the Management Consultant

Management consultancy was originally set up to help businesses become more efficient and thus more successful.

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Tech Mahindra acquires digital entities

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Tech Mahindra acquires digital entities

Tech Mahindra has announced the acquisition of Melbourne-based Momenton, a digital enterprise technology firm, offering consultancy and implementation services, and Tenzing Ltd, a technology consulting company based in Auckland, New Zealand, for a combined $29.7 million

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EY-Parthenon announces global collaboration with Plug and Play

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EY-Parthenon announces global collaboration with Plug and Play

EY-Parthenon, the strategy consulting business of EY, announced its first innovation collaboration with Plug and Play, a global start-up ecosystem and venture fund specializing in early- to growth-stage technology start-ups with more than 30,000 companies in its network.

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  Capco joins Deloitte as a partner of InsurTech firm Instanda

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Capco joins Deloitte as a partner of InsurTech firm Instanda

Capco has inked a partnership agreement with insurance software provider Instanda.

Established in 2004, Instanda is a provider of IT solutions to the insurance industry.

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Cyient to Acquire IG Partners

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Cyient to Acquire IG Partners

Cyient, a global engineering and digital technology solutions company, today announced that it has agreed to acquire specialist Australian consulting firm, IG Partners, to expand its end-to-end offerings for the local and regional resources sector

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IBM rolls out new processor chip for faster AI computing

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IBM rolls out new processor chip for faster AI computing

International Business Machines Corp (IBM) announced on Monday a new processor chip for data centers that it says will be able to handle three times the workload of its predecessor.

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Healthcare Organizations Must Transform Digital Experiences

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Healthcare Organizations Must Transform Digital Experiences

Healthcare organizations need to become more collaborative in creating new digital healthcare experiences to help customers feel engaged, important, and informed, according to research from Accenture

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FSCS chooses Capgemini as strategic technology partner

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FSCS chooses Capgemini as strategic technology partner

Capgemini announced that it has been selected as the strategic technology partner for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). Under the five-year new agreement, Capgemini will work with FSCS to drive innovation through the adoption of digital, cloud, and application technologies, a key part of its 2020 strategy.

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BlueVenn Announce Partnership With InfiniteIQ Consulting

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BlueVenn Announce Partnership With InfiniteIQ Consulting

InfiniteIQ Consulting, a nationally recognized technology and data management consulting firm, and BlueVenn, the leading Customer Data Platform (CDP) vendor, have today announced a new strategic technology partnership focussed on helping healthcare, financial services, insurance and retail organizations make better sense of their customer data, and improve their omnichannel personalization and customer analytics capabilities .

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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Gekko

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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Gekko

Accenture has completed the acquisition of Gekko, a French Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services company.

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Up to $250B of US health spending could become virtual

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Up to $250B of US health spending could become virtual

With more patients and providers being exposed to telehealth and virtual care, a report published Friday by McKinsey predicts that as much as $250 billion of current U.S. healthcare spending could theoretically be virtualized.

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How Accenture, Intel and Sulubaaï are protecting Filipino coral reefs through AI

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How Accenture, Intel and Sulubaaï are protecting Filipino coral reefs through AI

The monitoring of endangered coral reef in the Philippines has been enhanced through an artificial intelligence (AI) alliance between Accenture, Intel and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation.

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Digital Transformation with the Top 20 Tech Consultants

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Digital Transformation with the Top 20 Tech Consultants

Digital transformation is an inescapable imperative for modern businesses. But embarking on a programme of digital transformation without expertise is foolhardy, considering the many potential pitfalls along the way, whether that’s dead-end technology or improperly implemented systems.

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