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Getting your Consultants to Deliver

They steal your watch to tell you the time: the old saw about consultancies still rings true. A Management Consultancies Association survey says 28 per cent of organisations are dissatisfied with the consultancies they've used. Tim Phillips, director of Moorhouse Consulting, offers an insider's guide to getting top service: ...

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Blog posts 2008-04-25

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Garibaldi Completes State of the Art Fixed Wing Hyperspectral (Alteration) Mapping Survey in Mexico's Sierra Madre

Garibaldi Resources Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: GGI), is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed one of the largest fixed wing hyperspectral surveys ever launched in the Sierra Madre. The objectives of the survey were to define the alteration signature of epithermal style gold and silver deposits that...

Articles 2008-06-19

Crunch to hike outsourcing

Business News IN BRIEF *The credit crunch will drive a new wave of outsourcing and "offshoring" of operations to cheaper locations by financial services companies, a survey shows. Nearly half of financial companies surveyed said they expected to increase their level of outsourcing, according to the Management...

Articles 2008-06-16

Longfellow Benefits Named One of Boston's Top Five "Best Places to Work" by Boston Business Journal

Longfellow Benefits, a Boston employee-benefitsbrokerage and consultant, today was named one of the Boston area's fivebest places to work in Boston Business Journal's annual ranking. It won in the small-employer category, which it has been named to for thethird year in a row. "This shows we practice what we preach....

Articles 2008-06-10

Quality service: smaller brokerage firms outperform the juggernauts in survey of risk managers at large corporations

Watch out big brokers. Recently released research results indicate risk managers at large corporations rate smaller brokerage firms better than their global counterparts in terms of their overall quality of client service. Marsh, Aon and Willis all received average scores, according to the 714 risk managers at Fortune...

Articles 2008-06-01

Employer Use of Financial Incentives to Reward Healthy Behavior Expected To Surge

Companies Tailor Programs to Target Specific Actions, According to Watson Wyatt WASHINGTON, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The number of employers offering workers financial incentives to better manage their health is expected to jump sharply next year, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global...

Articles 2008-05-29

Executives Worldwide See Talent Gaps as Top People Challenge in Every Region and Industry

Managing talent is the most critical human resourcesHR challenge worldwide and will remain at or near the top of executiveagendas in every region and industry for the foreseeable future, accordingto a new global study conducted by The Boston Consulting Group BCG, theWorld Federation of Personnel Management Associations WFPMA, and theSociety...

Articles 2008-04-14

Survey Highlights Ongoing Shift To Wellness to Manage Health Care Costs

Cowden Associates Finds High-Deductible Health Plans Not the Solution for Employers PITTSBURGH, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Employers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio believe the future of managing health care costs lies in helping their employees manage their health through wellness programs, according to Cowden Associates, Inc....

Articles 2008-03-27

Employers: Proven PBM Tools Slowing Cost of Prescription Drug Benefits

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Charles Cote of the Pharmaceutical Care ManagementAssociation, +1-202-207-3605 New Survey Shows Increasing Use of Tiered Copayments, Generics,and the Mail-Service Pharmacy Option to Control Costs WASHINGTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new survey ofemployers that finds the utilization of pharmacy benefit managementtools has helped to slow...

Articles 2008-03-25

Study Finds Alternative Asset Classes Grow in Popularity among Public Pension Plans

Bear Stearns and Government Finance Officers Association GFOA Release Findings of Comprehensive Survey of Public Pension Plans' Investment Practices NEW YORK -- A survey of investment practices at public pension plans found more invest or plan to invest in alternative asset classes in the future. Most of the...

Articles 2008-03-13

Rethink non-dom tax, says Aima.

The Alternative Investment Management Association, the body representing hedge funds in the UK, has urged the government to reconsider its planned measures to increase taxes for non-domiciled individuals.. Oliver Good Responding to the Treasury's Consultation on Residence and Domicile, Aima argued the...

Articles 2008-03-10

Automotive warranty management solution requires industry collaboration

BearingPoint study identifies need for common standards, better communication and cooperation among manufacturers and suppliers MCLEAN, Va. -- BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today published the results of a study of automotive manufacturers and suppliers on issues surrounding warranty...

Articles 2008-03-05

News: Libor plus is an investor's best friend.

Byline: David Rowley Top investment allocations for the next five years are Libor plus/absolute return, liability-driven investment LDI, hedge funds, private equity and high alpha equities according to investment professionals. The findings come from a survey of asset managers...

Articles 2008-03-03

Companies Facing Major Challenges in Handling Significant Increase in Global Mobility, Survey Finds

To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Lauren Mistretta, Public Relations, Deloitte, +1-312-486-4259, lmistretta@deloitte.com; or John Yocca, Senior AccountExecutive, Stern + Associates, +1-908-276-4344, ext. 214,john@sternassociates.com, for Deloitte NEW YORK, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to responding tothe forces of globalization, many companies are struggling to cope,a new study from Deloitte...

Articles 2008-02-12

This week: In spite of all the danger.

Byline: David Rowley - Acting editor, Pensions Week As I write, a survey has just come through of which the main finding simply states: "Employees are NOT in a position to manage the risks associated with workplace pension provision". The caps are...

Articles 2008-02-11

Cost of Business Travel Climbs Despite Economic Slowdown; Survey Results Reveal Factors Driving Spending Decisions

Industry Leaders from Best Western, JetBlue, National Business Travel Association and Advito/BCD Travel Offer Tips to Stem Financial Strain NEW YORK -- Travel industry executives meeting last week addressed several ways companies and individual business travelers are curtailing expenses in this era of corporate belt-tightening and economic uncertainty....

Articles 2008-02-07

BearingPoint Announces Results of Benchmarking Study on "Managing the Clinical Trials Supply Chain"

Survey finds global expansion and regulatory requirements will increase supply chain complexity; Pfizer leverages BearingPoint for competitive edge MCLEAN, Va. -- BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced the results of a benchmarking study on "Managing the Clinical Trials Supply...

Articles 2008-01-24

News in brief.

Hewitt Associates has opened an investment consultancy office in Edinburgh, headed by Zuhair Mohammed and David Crum. Mohammed joined Hewitt earlier this year from Psolve, where he was head of the company's consulting business. Crum joined the consultant from Strathclyde Pension Fund, where he was chief...

Articles 2008-01-14

Accruent and Kurt Salmon Associates Underwrite 2007 NRF Retail Real Estate Study, to Be Released at NRF Annual Convention

Accruent, Inc., theleading provider of Real Estate Performance Management RPM solutions, andKurt Salmon Associates KSA, a global management consulting firm, todayannounced that the groundbreaking National Retail Federation NRF RetailReal Estate study, conducted by AMR Research and underwritten by Accruentand KSA, will be released at NRF'sAnnual Convention , January 13-16,...

Articles 2008-01-09

Increased Pace of Brownfield Redevelopment

MORE THAN 50 PERCENT of environmental and government professionals involved in brownfield projects are seeing an increase in the pace of redevelopment activity, according to a survey conducted by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. EDR. Another 47 percent view brownfield activity as stable. The respondents included environmental consultants and government officials...

Articles 2008-01-01