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Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Tom Spencer

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. According to McKinsey, transformational mergers are rare “because the circumstances have to be just right, and the management team needs to execute the strategy well.”.

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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

List of Global Strategy Firms in 2013. BELOW is a hand-picked list of leading Global Strategy Firms. Maybe not, but seeing as Sydney is at the other end of the earth you would expect a truly global strategy firm to have an office there (if you want to see a list of purely Aussie strategy firms for 2013, click here ).

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. This list will be of interest to you if you live in Sydney (or you would like to live in Sydney), and: you want to become a strategy consultant, or. Pacific Strategy Partners. Source: Flickr ).

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Olswang – The name says it all

Tom Spencer

Olswang is a firm which holds itself out to the market as being an expert in technology, media and telecommunications, and so I was quite looking forward to meeting them. I recently had the dubious honour of meeting with two partners from London based law firm Olswang. Unfortunately, I was sadly disappointed.

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Why Latin American Business May (Finally) Be Ready for Growth

Strategy+Business

ISA's telecommunications and electric power businesses are members of sectors that enable other sectors. CEO Bernardo Vargas Gibsone of the Colombian utility and construction company ISA sees opportunity emerging from turmoil. If the electoral support for clear, open government continues to grow, business-friendly environments will follow.

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How Smarter Phones Will Transform Tech, Media, and Telecom

Strategy+Business

A new generation of smartphones, powered by artificial intelligence, could be in consumers' hands within the next few years and will have deep effects on every player in the technology, media, and telecommunications industry.

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