Global professional services firm KPMG has released its mid-year analysis of the deals landscape in the fintech scene. The Americas accounted for $51.4 billion of fintech investment in the first two quarters of 2021, followed by the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region at $39.1 billion.
For organizations across sectors, making use of a Quality Management System is a key aspect of ensuring that products, services as well as internal processes meet the highest standards. Experts from INDEVCO Consultancy share six main benefits that come with adopting a modern quality management system.
In a new report, Botho Emerging Markets Group has honed in on the UAE’s small to medium-sized consulting industry – a ‘black box’ for many as the segment is typically excluded from the market research reports of major analyst houses. The GCC’s consulting industry is estimated to be worth around $3.3 billion, according to the latest data from the British analyst firm Source Global Research.
While digitalization was considered as a long-term objective within the pharmaceutical industry, it has quickly become a necessity for companies to engage with both physicians and patients during the pandemic. Will the same digitalization trends that have reshaped the industry during the pandemic remain a focus in the future?
With more and more renewable energy initiatives being launched in the Middle East, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure the successful implementation of such projects. FTI Consulting share key success factors for clean energy project delivery.
Global accounting and consulting firm KPMG has released its global ‘The future of local government’ report, outlining the top trends that are shaping local government services and interaction with citizens, businesses, and their own people. One of the eight overarching trends uncovered was that local authorities are expected to increasingly offer personalized services for every customer.
Building an employee-backed case for change and ensuring people are committed and supportive of the change is one of the key success factors for any large transformation or project. Getting change management right is however notorious for its complexity and pitfalls. Devoteam shares eight steps for implementing a successful change management approach.
Investments into startups in the Middle East is set to break a new record this year, crossing the $2 billion barrier for the first time, with FinTech and FoodTech at the forefront of investor interest. In a new report by RedSeer, a strategic consultancy and research house to businesses, startups and private equity firms, the researchers look into the state of Middle East and Africa’s startup scene, uncovering all kinds of trends and developments in the landscape.
African countries are looking to space to meet the rising demand for connectivity, fuelled by fast-changing data consumption patterns and the growing need to bridge the digital divide in land-locked countries. Space in Africa, a media, analytics, and consulting firm, shows African countries have so far spent over $4.5 billion on satellite projects with at least 21 out of 54 African nations having a space program or in the process of creating one.
A new report by strategic consulting firm McKinsey & Company suggests that Europe’s ambition to become climate-neutral by 2050 would cost the continent roughly €28 trillion over the course of the next 30 years. Beyond helping save the planet, the green investment windfall would deliver several socio-economic benefits.
A growing number of fashion and luxury brands are leveraging smart technology and the rich customer data they have at their disposal to make better strategic decisions in the commercial domain. Experts from Simon-Kucher & Partners share four examples of how brands can boost their top-line performance using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Accenture has extended its long-standing relationship with Google in the Middle East, bringing its newly launched Accenture-Google Cloud Data & AI offering to the region. The global management and technology consulting firm has been working together with Google worldwide for over a decade in the business realm, mainly focused on Google’s enterprise resource planning suite, business apps such as Office 365, and cloud solutions.
The World Government Summit (WGS) has teamed up with Strategy& in the Middle East to develop the ‘Urban Resilience Tool’, a tool that helps city officials measure and compare how resilient their city is to economic, health, social, climate and urban shocks and developments.
French engineering consultancy Egis has been hired to futureproof the transport system of Saudi Arabia’s capital city. The city's ambitious 2030 plans mean the firm will support several multi-billion projects aimed at helping the Kingdom solve a bottleneck in its transit network.
In April 2020, the Dubai World Trade Centre was converted to a state-of-art, fully functional field hospital capable of supporting more than 3,000 Covid-19 patients. Serco supported the setup and operation of the hospital with more than 80 healthcare staff.
International IT services company Xebia has bolstered its expertise in the Google domain with the acquisition of G-company. The deal sees Xebia add a cohort of 70 specialists to its team which extends their expertise in Google Cloud and Google Workspace, enabling them to better support customers working on the Google platform with their digital transformation agenda
Dutch consulting firm Sourcing Champions has teamed up with Austria-based technology provider Cirtuo with the aim of helping procurement leaders better define and validate their category strategy and roadmap. Based in Amsterdam and Munich, Sourcing Champions is a consultancy that specializes in sourcing strategy, procurement transformations and digitalization.
Leveraging its deep expertise in enhancing business operations and capability transfer, INDEVCO Consultancy has launched an Operational Excellence Academy. The launch brings the best of INDEVCO Consultancy’s consulting and knowledge transfer expertise into the new arm, focused on delivering a range of leadership, professional development and technical training programs and courses to both individuals and teams.
This benchmark examines and compares how strategy consulting firms are organizing their knowledge and research functions internally, and where they’ve chosen to locate them globally.
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