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This report provides Monadnock Research estimates for 2018-2019 IT Consulting rates in the United States of America from our firm's continuous cross-industry consulting rate analysis of current negotiated master service agreements between clients and strategic firms. Mean and median hourly, daily and weekly rates are provided for the 15 most common categories of professional, with full detail on experience, education and customary titles for each level, along with rate differential break-outs for 14 large metropolitan IT Consulting markets in the US. The report also includes rate break-outs for 9 IT consulting service sub-categories, as well as a firm category break-out for Large IT Consulting Specialists; Small and Mid-Market IT Consulting Specialists; the Big Four; and Operations Specialists. (65 Pages, 33 Exhibits)...More

Table of Contents: (1) 2014 Mexico, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland IT Consulting Rates Reports Published; (2) PwC Fiscal 2014 Global Revenues Up Around 6%, Led by Advisory Growth; Deloitte Retains Largest Firm Title; (3) Hitachi Consulting Acquires Southeast Asian IT Consultancy, Stone Apple; (4) Deloitte Launches Center for Crisis Management; (5) Cognizant Acquires Digital Marketing Consultancy, Cadient; (6) Infosys Visa Fraud Whistleblower Files New Federal Retaliation Suit; and (7) Consulting Leadership: CSC. (1,267 words)...More

A small number of consulting and IT services firms made the exclusive 2013 list of Ethisphere's Most Ethical Companies, among the 143 corporate honorees. The group is comprised of mostly large and very large multi-national corporations. Eight firms that have large consulting operations made the list of Ethisphere's Most Ethical Companies this year. The management and IT consulting services honorees were Accenture, Capgemini and Wipro; and the AEC firms that made the list were CH2M Hill and AECOM. Xerox and Hitachi Data Systems also made the list, and have large IT consulting and services operations. Two honorees that offer staffing services made the list, ManpowerGroup and Robert Half International. (230 words)...More

The management and IT consulting affiliate of Hitachi Ltd, Hitachi Consulting, has acquired operations specialist, Celerant Consulting. Caledonia Investments sold its 47.3% equity holding in Celerant to Hitachi in the deal. Hitachi Consulting is a leading Dallas-based global provider of IT and management consulting, software and services. The acquisition further expands Hitachi Consulting's presence in Europe, North and South America, as well as the firm's global operations industry expertise in chemicals, consumer products and services, energy, industrial, life sciences, metals and mining. Research Note includes transaction details. (953 words)...More

This Research Note presents operations consulting rate conversion metrics for 29 of the largest countries around the world, with details on the impact of non-currency factors on rates globally. Clients can use information in this Note to estimate engagement costs for services where country-specific rates are required for a firm and one country's rate distribution by level of professional (or blended rate) is known. These factors can also be employed in conjunction with Monadnock Research Operations rate tables to create rates by country for operations work proposed on an hourly, daily, weekly or team basis. Conversion metrics are presented for rates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), and the United Kingdom (U.K.) Resea...More

Accenture names Giles C. Pélisson as Board member. Roland Berger hires leaders of Kline & Co. Energy practice; Appoints William R. Downey Jr. and Jonathan Goldhill as Partners, and Gillian Morris as Principal. CSC appoints Paul Saleh as Vice President and CFO; Jon Love as Vice President NPS Defense Group. Deloitte names Deborah DeHaas as Chief Inclusion Officer; DTTL Global CEO Barry Salzberg appointed Chairman Worldwide United Way. North Highland appoints Valerie Barckhoff as Vice President in its Atlanta Healthcare practice and David Reiling as Executive Vice President , International. Robert Kurak joins Segal as Vice President and Consulting Actuary; Joanne T. Burns joins as Senior Vice President and National Communications Practice Leader. Maarten van Hasselt joins Celerant Consulting as Senior Vice President and Americas Energy Sector Leader. Alba Avila Quintana, Patrick J. McArdle and Alma Angotti join Navigant's AML Practice as Directors (1,975 words)...More

Booz & Co. names Cesare Mainardi as firm's next CEO. SAIC names John P. Jumper as CEO; Calvin D. (Dan) Harris as EMSBU General Manager. Navigant appoints Julie Howard as CEO and Board Member. Mercer names Julio A. Portalatin as President and CEO; Leonard Gray Global Leader of M&A Consulting; and Phil Shirley as greater China & Hong Kong M&A leader and Stan Feng as Mercer China M&A leader. AT Kearney names Michael Jenkins as Partner and VP. Deloitte names Bill Copeland to lead Life Sciences and Healthcare practice; John Bigalke National Leader of Public Policy, and Senior Partner for Global Health Care practice; Dilip Krishna as Director in Governance, Regulatory & Risk Strategies practice; Deborah Bailey Banking and Securities Regulatory practice Managing Director; and Steve Gallucci as Managing Partner, Fairfield County practice. Ernst & Young appoints David Remnitz to lead its Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) practice; Adam Cohen, Todd Marlin and Jay ...More

Roland Berger opens offices in Jakarta, Dubai and Lagos; Appoints 26 new international Partners; Partners elect two new Supervisory Board Members. Simon-Kucher appoints 8 new Partners. FTI opens new office in Jakarta. Rebecca Szelc joins Charles River as a Vice President in Financial Accounting & Valuation practice. Linda Zimmerman joins Aon Hewitt as Senior Vice President and Global Marketing Leader. KPMG appoints Janet Davidson as Head of the Global Healthcare Center of Excellence. PricewaterhouseCoopers names Erik Hansen as Partner in Risk Assurance Services practice; Pamela F. Olson joins as Deputy Tax Leader and Leader of Washington National Tax Services practice. Capgemini Appoints Dee Burger as Telecom, Media and Entertainment Practice Sector Lead and Jean-Marc Steffann as Vice President. Navigant appoints Jim Vint Managing Director, and Kevin Blake and Kevin Byrne as Directors within the Technology Solutions practice; Karin Corfee as Managing Director in Energy Practice. Er...More

MR - Korn/Ferry appoints Chuck Feltz as President of its Lominger products business. CSC CEO and Chairman, Michael Laphen, to retire. KPMG LLP Names Steven Hill Vice Chair, Strategic Investments. Sixty staff and 6 partners join BDO USA from Carneiro Chumney & Co. Cushman & Wakefield cuts staff and shifts focus from Dubai to Bahrain. CGI appoints George Schindler President of US operations and Ken Taylor as Vice-President, Cybersecurity. PwC names Dietmar Ostermann Global Automotive Advisory Leader. PwC appoints Eric Israel and Clinton Moloney as Managing Directors in Sustainability Business Solutions practice. Martin Steinbach appointed to lead Ernst& Young's IPO Center. BDO Consulting names Drew Olson to expand litigation and fraud investigation within Chicago Insurance practice. Celerant appoints Neil Eurick as Vice President within Metals and Mining practice. BearingPoint hires Rob Staples as Partner in UK Communications practice. Navigant appoints nine senior consulting...More

This study presents an analysis of operations consulting rate structures for clients across a number of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotech, high tech, communications, energy, financial services, public services, and metals and mining. More than 85 percent of the rate structures were from global entities, and all were from organizations that fall within the 1,000 largest global organizations. Rates from 75 firms were analyzed across the operations consulting category, including a total of 126 firm-rate structures. This report presents statistics across 15 professional classifications, including a percentile analysis for each labor class. Rates from firms that were a subject of this analysis for the operations consulting rate category included: Accenture, ADL, A.T. Kearney, Bain, BCG, Booz&Co, Capgemini, Celerant, CSC, Deloitte, Huron, IBM, McKinsey, PA Consulting, PRTM, and PwC. Research Note includes 5 graphics and 15 tables - 8,000 words....More

MR - Hitachi Consulting has acquired Aptivo Consulting, S.A., a provider of consulting services to the banking, insurance, telecommunications, and public services industries. Based in Madrid, Aptivo specializes in IT advisory, business intelligence, benchmarking and analytics, CRM and custom web development consulting. Aptivo's clients include financial institutions, public service organizations, and telecom companies. Hitachi Consulting also acquired Sierra Atlantic, an off-shore provider of enterprise applications and outsourced product development services with approximately 2,400 employees globally. (970 words)...More

Roland Berger appoints seven new international partners and two partner advancements. FTI Consulting EVP and Chief Integration Officer resigns; Firm expands International Arbitration Group and appoints two senior managing directors within its Corporate Finance/Restructuring practice. SAIC names general manager of Health Solutions business unit. PwC names partner within its US Restructuring and Recovery Services practice. Atos Origin names 3 Executive Vice Presidents and a new General Secretary. Celerant Consulting appoints Vice President and Managing Director of Latin America. HP to slash salaries of EDS staffers. Hiring at Indian "IT Majors" continues, despite the economic downturn....More

Hitachi Consulting has acquired Edenbrook Ltd., a UK-based IT consulting firm that specializes in Microsoft and Oracle applications. The firm's clients include Virgin Media, easyJet, BUPA, Lloyds TSB, and Whitbread....More

Deloitte appoints Deputy Managing Partner with responsibility for Professional Practice Network. Heidrick & Struggles names Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of newly combined global CEO and Board practices. Capgemini names eight VPs. Hitachi Consulting appoints President and CEO. Celerant names senior vice president of strategy. Alvarez & Marsal makes executive appointments and expands pan-European financial institutions team. Global Health Management consulting leader rejoins Hewitt. E&Y to cut compensation of Irish staff by 7.5 percent. Satyam may have lost close to 25 percent of staff since January. (subscription required)...More