Global Consulting Marketplace: Key Trends, Profiles and Forecasts
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Part of Kennedy’s Consulting Service Line Research

Kennedy analysts have found that the global market for consulting is making a cautious move toward recovery in many sectors, most notably in emerging markets. In fact, achieving growth in a slower economy, even amid concerns over a possible “double-dip” recession, is still a priority for clients—and they are spending, carefully, on consulting services in pursuit of this goal.
At the same time, clients are pursuing a second wave of cost reduction, more comprehensive and strategic than during the downturn. With many organizations having maximized their ability to make easily obtainable changes in their cost structure, Kennedy analysts portend that clients will focus on cutting cost primarily by improving overall business and operations efficiency, and by addressing areas of the business in which costs have risen—and they will be engaging consultants for help in successfully managing these increasingly complex business challenges.
Kennedy’s most comprehensive research of the year — and the profession’s only study of its kind — Global Consulting Marketplace examines the key trends impacting client demand for services, provides market size and growth estimates, and analyzes the Global consulting market across the following taxonomy:
Global Consulting Service Line
  • Strategy
  • Operations
  • Human Resources (HR)
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • Financial Consulting (FC)
Key Geographic Region
  • North America
  • Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
  • Asia Pacific
  • Latin America
Client Vertical Industry
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Public Sector
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy
  • Communications and Media
  • CPG
  • Retail
  • Utilities
  • Other Industries
Complete market analysis includes:
KENNEDY ANALYSIS & RECOMMENDATIONS draws on proprietary research and analyst findings to deliver timely data on evolving client demands, market conditions, pockets of growth, segment and service line specific challenges, and more.
MARKET TRENDS looks at the market trends and factors affecting growth for services in the Global consulting marketplace.
GLOBAL CONSULTING SPENDING AND GROWTH forecasts and details the size of the Global consulting market and its projected growth. This section slices the market by consulting service line, region, and client industry.
GLOBAL CONSULTING PROVIDER LANDSCAPE features in-depth analysis of recent actions by leading players in the market and discusses the implications these moves have on the future of the market.
PROFILES OF SELECT GLOBAL CONSULTING PRACTICES profiles consulting firms featured in this report.
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Global consulting practices featured in this research include:
  • Accenture
  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Aon Corporation (including Aon Hewitt)
  • Bain & Company
  • Booz & Company
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • The Boston Consulting Group
  • Capgemini
  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • IBM
  • KPMG International
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies (including Mercer, Oliver Wyman, Marsh Risk Consulting)
  • PwC
  • Towers Watson