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MR - Bloomberg has agreed to acquire Kennedy Information parent, the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), for $39.50 per share in a cash deal valued at around $990 million. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of the year. BNA appears to have taken BNA Subsidiaries into bankruptcy as a pre-condition to the Bloomberg transaction. The reorganized company, now re-named Kennedy Information LLC, emerged from bankruptcy with a final decree closing the Chapter 11 case on 25 August, the day the Bloomberg-BNA deal was announced. Bloomberg says it will make BNA a stand-alone subsidiary run by its current management. No layoffs at either company are anticipated in the short-term, but they expect reductions through attrition over time. BNA Subs had been facing a class action lawsuit asserting an estimated $15 million in claims. That case was dismissed with prejudice in a federal case related to the Bankruptcy on 15 July. Research Note includes various court filings and orders. (...
MR - Forrester Research has acquired Springboard Research, a provider of research and advisory services focused on Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Springboard is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New Delhi and Beijing, and is a former division of Knowledge Platform. While the transaction price would not be considered material for Forrester, it fits a strategic need in the area of Asia Pacific and emerging market research where the firm's depth had been limited. Forrester paid around $9 million in cash, less hold-backs and earn-outs. (385 words)...
MR - Deltek has acquired Washington Management Group, its FedSources, and FedSources Consulting businesses for $26 million in an all cash transaction. WMG has been providing consulting and market intelligence services to government contractors for more than 25years. The firms say WMG has more than 900 clients and 20,000 users, and helps identify and validate more than 3,500 opportunities annually. Deltek will combine opportunity intelligence from FedSources with the content, community, and opportunity database from INPUT and GovWin, significantly enhancing its repository of government opportunity intelligence. (465 words)...
MR - KPMG Holdings Limited (UK) and KPMG International finally reached an agreement to acquire EquaTerra's business and subsidiaries after 6 months of rumors on an imminent transaction. The deal creates a global sourcing and shared services advisory firm serving clients across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. The firms say the transaction is consistent with KPMG's growth strategy to focus on organic and inorganic opportunities in high-demand market sectors. Equaterra, founded in 2003, is a provider of advisory and research services, and governance tools to help clients with process improvement, outsourcing, and shared services across a number of business functions. (760 words)...
MR - Maureen Broderick of Broderick & Company has recently published The Art of Managing Professional Services: Insights from Leaders of the Top Firms. The book is based on over 130 interviews with leaders of the world's top consulting firms and offers Broderick's perspective on practical and proven best practices on how to master the ten areas that firm leaders need to focus on to build and maintain a strong organization. Forty best practices are featured in the book that highlight those ten key insights for managing professional services firms, which are: how to create and maintain a shared vision, values and culture; best programs to recruit, train and retain; great people; strategies to develop and manage a profitable portfolio of clients; what it takes to innovate services and share knowledge; the key metrics to monitor financial health; Insights into effective positioning, marketing and selling firm services; proven practices for rewarding and managing the partnership; a guid...
MR - Consultants working as independent contractors and other employees of a Silicon Valley "expert network" firm have been indicted in an alleged scheme that channeled inside information from executives at some of the world's largest technology companies to hedge funds and other financial firms. The firm, Primary Global Research (PGR), is based in Mountain View, California and its early leadership team previously worked for IBM, Intel, Bell Labs, the Gerson Lehrman Group, Bear Sterns, Alex Brown, CSFB, AMD, and numerous other financial and technology firms. PGR itself was not indicted in the scheme, and five executives at financial and technology firms are cooperating in the investigation. PGR consultants also worked for some of the technology industry's leading firms, including Apple, Research In Motion, AMD, Dell, and Seagate. Monadnock Research co-founder, Mark O'Connor, coined the "Expert Network" service category for legal and ethical uses in his knowledge man...
MR - Constellation Research Group has been launched as an aggregator of leading independent analyst firms serving buyers of technology-centric products and services. Constellation is positioning itself as an alternative to Gartner and Forrester, bringing together analysts that clients already view as thought leaders in their focus areas and industries. The firm's model proposes to put the interests of technology buyers first. Members of the group have established themselves in the market and built successful practices independently. While the firm's principals will continue to provide services independently, clients can purchase services for all Constellation member firms through a single purchasing point. Constellation says a typical research client will be one that needs to understand the impact, benefits, risks, and rewards arising from disruptive business models and technologies. The firm comes to market with 13 analysts, and expects to broaden that in the coming months. (1,450 wor...
MR - Deltek, a leading provider of enterprise applications and services for consulting firms and other project-focused businesses, has acquired market research and advisory services firm INPUT, for $60 million in cash. Deltek says the combination of INPUT's industry leading opportunity intelligence and business development capabilities with Deltek's portfolio of government contracting solutions and govWin network allows the combined firm to manage all facets of the government contracting value chain from opportunity identification to project delivery. (960 words)...
INPUT - The top 20 contract opportunities planned by federal agencies for fiscal 2011 are dominated by procurements out of defense agencies, according to a new report from INPUT. According to the new report, Top 20 Federal Contract Opportunities, more than 80 percent of the approximately $142 billion in total contract value for 2011 will be associated with defense agencies. INPUT says another notable trend is increased prime contract opportunities for vendors, especially small businesses. Agencies are shifting a number of single-award contracts to multiple-award contracts; including, in some cases, setting aside a separate set of awards for small businesses of varying socioeconomic classes. In the report, five out of 20 are expected to be awarded to a single vendor. (505 words)...
MR - Kennedy Information parent, BNA Subsidiaries LLC (BNA Subs), has filed for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. BNA Subs was formed in January 2009 as the entity controlling consulting industry research and publishing firm Kennedy Information, Consulting Magazine, and information publisher IOMA. A restructuring announced by the parent company, the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), in a 2009 10K filing involved shifting assets of certain business units to BNA less than a year before the bankruptcy filing. The transferred units included Pike & Fischer and certain IOMA operations. Kennedy divested its investor relations and corporate recruiting operations in 2009, and shut down one of its first publications, Executive Recruiter News, after more than 35 years of publication. One of the motivating factors for the bankruptcy was a class action lawsuit asserting $15 million in claims for alleged violations of U.S. communications laws involving unsolicited faxes. There is also litig...
MR - The Nielsen Company (Nielsen) and McKinsey & Company have formed a global joint venture, NM Incite, to help leading companies harness the power of social media intelligence to drive business performance. The firms say NM Incite "gives companies the capabilities to better understand, value, and take advantage of the rich insights made possible by social media." NM Incite builds upon Nielsen BuzzMetrics' social media and online brand metrics, consumer insights, and real-time market intelligence to help clients transform their product development, marketing, communications, and customer service efforts. The entire BuzzMetrics organization is being merged into NM Incite. (1,005 words)...
MR (VIII, N3) - Gartner has acquired the Burton Group, a leading market research and advisory services firm that provides services to front-line IT professionals. The firm has approximately 41 analysts and 40 sales and client service associates, and projects 2009 revenues will be in the $30 million range. Burton provides consulting services in application development and cost control; cloud computing; infrastructure and operations architecture and sourcing; identity and security; secure and available networks; and workforce location and communication strategies. The deal closed on 31 December. (Research Note, 865 words)...
MR - IT research and advisory services leader, Gartner, Inc., has agreed to acquire AMR Research, Inc. (AMR) for approximately $64 million in cash. AMR expects to finish 2009 with revenues of around $40 million. The research and advisory focus of AMR is directed primarily at supply chain executives that make decisions involving technology that improves supply chain productivity, and vendors serving those markets. AMR works with clients in discrete and process manufacturing, consumer products, life sciences, and retail. The firm's 40 research staff and 45 sales professionals will join Gartner when the transaction is finalized. Services will continue to be marketed to clients under the AMR brand, at least initially. (665 words)...
MR - Integreon has acquired Grail Research, a global strategic research and decision support firm from the Monitor Group, both headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. Monitor has also signed a five-year contract to buy research services from Integreon as part of the transaction. Grail provides market intelligence and strategic research services to global clients in technology, consumer products, and life sciences....
MR - Research and advisory services firm TowerGroup has been acquired by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). CEB says the acquisition will expand its services to clients in financial services, most notably in the technology and sales and marketing areas. TowerGroup CEO Karen Cone has left the firm as a result of the acquisition. Tower is being integrated within the financial services practice of CEB, and it has not yet been decided if it will continue to operate as a separately branded firm....
MR - Dan Abrams, former MSNBC general manager, anchor and legal analyst, announced the launch of Abrams Research, a strategic advisory firm that connects business leaders with top global media consultants....
(10 October 2008) Organizations that employ best-in-class practices to manage consulting spending routinely recognize between 10 and 20 percent in annual savings and cost avoidance, and unleash other important sources of untapped value. Realizing those elusive benefits, however, is one of the most significant challenges organizations face today. This Research Note provides an overview of the Monadnock Research stages of excellence for sourcing and procuring consulting services. (subscription required)...
(6 October 2008) BIA Financial Network (BIA), a financial and strategic advisory firm serving the media and communications sectors, has acquired the Kelsey Group, a provider of research, data, analysis, and advisory services on print and electronic Yellow Pages, local search, small-business marketing, and local media....
(18 September 2008) Economic and financial information and advisory services firm, Global Insight, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by IHS Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $200 million. (subscription required)...
(18 June 2008) Deloitte has reached an agreement to acquire Recombinant Capital, Inc., a life sciences subscription database and advisory services firm. The transaction is expected to close within 30 days. Financial terms were not disclosed....
MR - Caterpillar, Inc. has agreed to sell a majority stake in its market research and customer analytics (MR&CA) operation to Satyam Computer Services Ltd. for $60 million. Satyam will launch a business unit to provide MR&CA consulting, research, and analytical services globally to Caterpillar and to the firm's other clients across a range of industries. Satyam will also acquire S&V Management Consultants, a Belgium-based supply chain management consultancy for $35.5 million, in an all-cash deal....