Consulting to pensions was the least profitable, most labor intensive, service these firms offered.
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British government agencies have asked PA Consulting to build models to test regulatory schemes and zoning rules.
Shaheen quit his job running Andersen Consulting to take one running Webvan, the Foster City, California-based Internet grocery store.
The second was to move Oracle beyond consulting to making and selling products.
All the firms offer services from high-end businesses like IT consulting to low-end management of servers and business process outsourcing.
In America they are forbidden from selling consulting to their audit clients.
Kunal Shah founded Stencil Consulting to help Indian students make that transition.
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It laid off consultants in its main business, shut a unit that produced customised software and closed down another that provided consulting to start-ups.
The council said it had appointed BPP Consulting to help with the planning process and to "make sure everything is done by the book".
Firms in these sectors handle a range of tasks, from consulting to caretaking, that might previously have been done in-house by firms in other industries.
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The agreement required Andersen Consulting to pay Arthur Andersen an annual fee, and stipulated a prohibitively expensive fine if the consultants ever sought to break loose.
But it has taken off and DELL is now consulting to enterprises and organizations like the American Heart Association on how to set up and run them.
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AA's Global 1, 000 initiative, which touts everything from consulting to legal advice to the world's largest firms, some non-audit colleagues worry that he does not fully understand their business.
Recently, we launched Serve2Gether Consulting, a program that mobilizes American Express employees to provide pro bono consulting to nonprofits helping them address critical issues related to organizational structure and operation.
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Dell uses a mix of its own 7, 000 service employees and others under contract, leaving the high-end consulting to the likes of EDS. "Break-fix has been derided as Tinkertoy services, but there's a lot of money to be made there, " says Rollins.
The corporate community takes an active role in recruiting industry and provides mentoring and business consulting to companies new to Alabama - whether it be assistance with business networking or helping new families to find homes, enroll in school, or become active in the community.
Jerry Brown, president of Thorograph, a New York-based firm that provides data and thoroughbred consulting to owners, breeders, and bettors, says the main issue is that the breeder market rewards big, good-looking yearlings that sell for a lot of money, without taking into account their sturdiness.
The key focus of this consulting firm: to provide consulting and educational services to nonprofit organizations, and the funders who support them, focused on building fiscal management capacity and long term fiscal health.
He then founded his own research firm to provide consulting services to investors seeking analysis of semiconductor companies.
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ProPublica has tried to link consulting payments to unrelated bad behavior among its physician-consultants. (According to this accompanying article, 1.4% of all doctors who receive drug company payments have some kind of infraction on their record, not all serious.) And certainly there have been some troubling reports of prominent researchers, at Harvard and elsewhere, who never disclosed their consulting fees while promoting one therapy over another.
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Chief Executive Kerry Hicks started in the mid-1990s trying to create a consulting business to help hospitals improve their performance.
With personal computer demand everywhere looking grim as users spend more time with mobile devices, Dell is repositioning itself to sell more servers and consulting services to big buyers.
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Jareau received a BSE degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, but decided to dodge traditional offers from consulting firms to embark on a more adventurous journey.
Depending on the size of your business, you may want to hire a consultant or consulting firm to assist you with this creation and implementation of a training program for the potential successor.
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Dell wants to be a trusted advisor offering consulting services to help figure everything out and make it work.
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It makes money by selling detailed reports (the basic ones are free), licensing its name to hospitals that do well and offering consulting services to ones that do poorly.
Political leverage: CEOs that want or need to make an unpopular decision often bring in a consulting firm to help.
For wireless operators, the business apps could lead to more sales of devices, data plans and consulting deals to help companies manage their mobile work forces.
According to the 2012 Wealth Report by Citi Private Bank and Knight Frank, a consulting firm to wealthy real estate investors, economic turbulence did not curb the rise in the number of ultra-wealthy individuals in 2011.
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