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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

Financial Consulting 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

One on One One on One with BPI Group's Robyn Clark Human Relations is having something of a renaissance in terms of its overall effect in helping a company achieve its long-term goals. Robyn Clark, Global Management and HR consulting firm BPI Group’s Managing Director of talent solutions, says now more than ever C-Suite executives are in need of a trusted advisor, and more and more are turning to HR leaders to fill those shoes.

Joe Kornik | 2013-07-16 01:04:00.000

One on One One on One with Aspen Advisors' Dan Coate It’s a perfect storm of challenges in the healthcare space today. New technologies, new federal mandates and an aging Baby Boomer population is forcing the industry to evaluate how they deliver care to their patients from the ground-up. Aspen Advisors’ Principal Dan Coate shed some light on what clients are facing, and how they’re helping them navigate these choppy waters.

Joe Kornik | 2013-07-02 01:04:00.000

Information Technology One on One with M Squared's John Kunzweiler The days of a career in consulting requiring a lengthy commitment under an executive pecking order are over. Nowadays, seasoned veterans of the profession looking to take the steering wheel on their career path are opting to strike out on their own, eschewing the convenient infrastructure put in place for them at larger firms in favor of a self-driven model. M Squared is one of the companies at the forefront of this contingent workforce trend.

Joe Kornik | 2013-06-11 01:04:00.000

Information Technology One on One with Avasant's Kevin Parikh Avasant Senior Partner and Global CEO Kevin Parikh has billions of dollars of deals in outsourcing and business transactions under his belt in his career. Avasant works with governments and Fortune 500 companies to not only source skilled workers, but to optimize technology in a way that saves them money and time. Avasant is seeing some pretty impressive growth.

Joe Kornik | 2013-06-01 01:04:00.000