His company was recently named a "Rising Star" on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a list of North America's fastest-growing technology companies.

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Giovanni Rodriguez is a senior strategist in social technology for Deloitte, and a blogger for Forbes.com.

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It was floated on the AIM stock market in 2010, and in 2011 it was named as Scotland's fastest-growing technology business by the accountancy firm Deloitte.

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The twin causes of the deterioration, Deloitte says, are the advances of digital technology, which radically reduces both competitive advantage and barriers to entry by new players, and movements to economic liberalization by our policy makers.

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But as the only Big Four firm to not sell its consulting arm after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and the introduction of new scope of services restrictions to support more auditor independence, Deloitte is the biggest and strongest of all the firms in technology and systems implementation, in particular.

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