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BCG: Green Employers Facing a Talent Shortage
As deadlines loom and the impacts of climate change continue to grow more severe and widespread, businesses the world over are pushing hard toward developing strategies to better achieve their sustainability goals, with many facing increasing pressure from governments, investors, customers, and the general public to keep their promises...
Technology
PwC Boosts AI, Data Science Capabilities Through Acquisition of Sagence
Chicago-based data science company Sagence is due to be acquired by Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in a deal that is expected to close before the end of the year. The purchase, PwC’s fourth acquisition in the past year and a half, comes as part of the firm’s strategy to grow its consulting services...
Healthcare
Lumanity Acquires Clarion, Expands U.S. Life Sciences Consulting Practice
Healthcare advisory firm Lumanity recently announced its acquisition of Clarion Healthcare, a life sciences consultancy with a 20-year history of providing services to biopharma clients. The financial terms of the transaction were not publicly disclosed...
Government
Accenture Names New Chief Corporate and Government Affairs Officer
Accenture has appointed Andrew Levy to serve as the firm’s first Chief Corporate & Government Affairs Officer. The newly created role will see the Chicago-based executive leading the firm’s geopolitical strategic analysis as well as its global government relations functions...
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The gender gap in the healthcare industry has always been a looming indicator of societal inequalities for women in the workplace. Despite the fact that women make up 70% of nurses and a large share of clinical care providers, there is an alarming gap in leadership positions filled by women...
Teneo Announces New Chairwoman, Ursula Burns
Management consulting and advisory company, Teneo, has recently announced a new addition to the top tier of its team. Ursula Burns, the former CEO of Xerox, has been chosen as the chairwoman of the company with the departure of Declan Kelly, the former CEO and chairman of the company, and also co-founder...
Why Cybersecurity Success Depends On Public-Private Partnership
As highlighted by the widespread SolarWinds security breach, the public and private sector can no longer afford to act separately when it comes to cybersecurity. Supported by a network of similar hardware and software vendors and interconnected through the course of daily business...
The Top 100 IT Consulting and Services Companies of 2021
The Consulting Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 IT Consulting and Services Companies of 2021. These are the companies leading some of...
Deloitte Expands Cloud-Services Portfolio With Acquisition Of CloudQuest
In a recent press release, Big Four accounting and professional services firm Deloitte announced the acquisition of Cupertino, California-based cloud security posture management provider CloudQuest. The startup, which offers cloud-native security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) services specialized for InfoSec and SecDevOps teams...
Accenture’s History With Healthcare.gov Factors Into Current CMS Contract
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The Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity IT Services of 2021
The IT Services Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity IT Services of 2021. These women leaders represent some of the most prominent IT organizations that provide clients across the public and private sectors with ongoing cybersecurity services...
Kaiser Permanente To Partner With Accenture, Microsoft For Cloud Expansion
Microsoft recently announced a multi-year collaboration with IT services company Accenture and healthcare industry leader Kaiser Permanente to enhance its hosted cloud environment infrastructure that supports its 12.4 million members and more than 85,000 care providers. The collective effort to improve Kaiser Permanente’s cloud capabilities will ultimately enable them to better serve their members by delivering personalized digital experiences and more data-informed decision making...
The Evolution Of Banking Security
The rapid, widespread embrace of remote work policies driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has placed cybersecurity as a focal point of business success. Cybercriminals have, in turn, adapted accordingly and their crooked campaigns constitute a major threat for individuals, companies, and entire governments in the age of digitalization...
