To roll-out these tough messages, I took a huge risk and hired Second City, the improvisational comedy company, to cast themselves as audience members while the consultants delivered the news.

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We received the jubilant news from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants barely 48 hours ago.

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In honor of Gates' June departure from his day job at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), career consultants and psychologists scrutinized the peaks and valleys of Gates' 35-year career to pinpoint what factors determined his success.

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They think this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the paradigm, '' says Joseph Martingale , national leader for health care strategy at benefits consultants Watson Wyatt (nyse: WW - news - people ).

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Besides the new server, Morohoshi says Fujitsu Computer's strategy is to partner with consultants like EDS (nyse: EDS - news - people ), storage companies like EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) and software companies like Microsoft, Red Hat and database giant Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ).

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For example, a group of business consultants might be asked to become a medical team tasked with giving bad news to a patient.

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That's why the newest version of TurboTax groups users into seven industries: real estate, online selling (think eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) sellers), construction, freelance artists, professional services (programmers, computer consultants), child-care providers and a generic catch-all bucket.

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