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One on One One on One with Nuevora's Phani Nagarjuna All consumer-facing companies have mountains of customer data, but until recently the value proposition for all that data was left largely untapped. Phani Nagarjuna, founder and CEO of analytics consulting firm Nuevora, wants to change all that.

Joe Kornik | 2014-01-05 23:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Alvarez & Marsal's Tom Phleps With the holiday shopping season in full swing, retail businesses are at their busiest. Alvarez & Marsal recently integrated the team from ClearLine, a boutique firm with whom they have a longstanding working relationship, to enhance their retail offering. Former ClearLine CEO and newly minted A&M Managing Director Tom Phelps sat down with to offer his insight.

Joe Kornik | 2013-12-08 23:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Accenture's Robert Wollan Accenture recently conducted its ninth annual Global Consumer Pulse Survey. This year’s survey took a close look at the impact of customers switching providers, which leaves a potential $1.3 trillion in revenue on the table, essentially up for grabs to whichever company can woo them away.

Joe Kornik | 2013-11-18 23:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Capgemini's Makarand Teje Global IT consulting firm Capgemini recently completed its fifth-annual World Quality Report with partner HP. This year’s report found that quality assurance (QA) and application testing account for a staggering 25 percent of all IT spending, a big shift as more organizations undergo digital transformations and rely more heavily on applications.

Joe Kornik | 2013-11-03 23:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Huron Consulting Group's Bob Rowe Bob Rowe, the new lead of Huron Legal, says companies are taking a closer look at legal department spending these days, an area that until recently was mostly insulated from company-wide belt tightening measures. One particular area rife with cost-cutting opportunities is the document discovery process.

Joe Kornik | 2013-10-22 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Slalom's Brad Jackson Of the Fortune 500, about 70 companies have been on the list every year for 50 years. The average age of these firms is 115. These firms have been built to last. What's their secret? Brad Jackson, co-founder and CEO of Slalom Consulting, suggests that the common denominator of those 70 firms is that they’ve built a culture of innovation. How they’ve managed to do that is another question, entirely.

Joe Kornik | 2013-10-10 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Deloitte Consulting's Jim Moffatt As companies struggle with growth in the core of their business, clients ask all the time: What unleashes growth, year after year? Thanks to research and analysis, Deloitte Consulting has identified just how critical growth and market differentiation is to industry leadership. So how do you achieve it? Simple… innovation and it must be supported with meaningful investment, says Jim Moffatt, Chairman & CEO, Deloitte Consulting.

Joe Kornik | 2013-09-19 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Booz & Company's John Loehr Every year since 2005, Booz & Company has conducted the Global Innovation 1000 study, which investigates the relationship between what companies spend on R&D and their overall financial performance—and every year, the firm reinforces the conclusion that there is no correlation between the two.

Joe Kornik | 2013-09-12 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Level 11's Ric Merrifield Some people think innovation is needed in all parts of the organization. The truth is organizations need to be rigorous and disciplined in regularly assessing where innovation can have the greatest impact, whether helping to get more customers, making employees more loyal, eliminating cost, or something else, according to Ric Merrifield, a Partner with Seattle-based Strategy firm Level 11.

Joe Kornik | 2013-08-21 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with The Ascendant Consortium's David A. Fields What if you could enjoy a huge increase in your consulting firm’s success without finding more clients, competing for more projects or winning more engagements? You can, if you increase the size of your projects. Most consultants have almost everything they need to double their average project size—without doubling the workload, according to David A. Fields, Founder and Managing Director of the Ascendant Consortium.

Joe Kornik | 2013-08-09 01:04:00.000