The Weekly Briefing: Management consulting and GitHub services
Management consulting engagements don’t necessarily end when the initial project goals are achieved. In some cases, companies continue working with their consulting partner to deepen...
The Weekly Briefing: Consulting subsidiaries and startup programs
Quite a few consumer brands have consulting arms that help their other subsidiaries and, in some cases, external clients boost operational efficiency. Porsche’s MHP unit,...
The Weekly Briefing: Third-party risk management and Oracle consulting
Many companies share confidential data as part of business partnerships. A smartphone maker, for example, might provide device blueprints to a component supplier. If hackers...
The Weekly Briefing: Cybersecurity investments and growth consulting
The initial phase of enterprise software deals usually includes a questionnaire in which the buyer asks the vendor doing the selling about its cybersecurity program....
The Weekly Briefing: Industry-specific language models and consulting M&A
Increasing the number of Nvidia chips in the server cluster that a company uses to train its LLMs is only one of the ways to...
The Weekly Briefing: Cybersecurity deals and AI agents
Many large cybersecurity providers have embedded LLM chatbots into their software over the past three years. Those chatbots automate tasks such as creating network traffic...
The Weekly Briefing: Consulting acquisitions and application upgrades
The professional services sector saw a significant amount of deal activity in the past week. Ampleo, Fairdinkum and Mudd Advertising acquired three boutique consultancies to extend...
The Weekly Briefing: Market reports and high-tech grocery stores
Large IT vendors commission market reports from time to time to find new sales opportunities and stay updated on the competition. Typically, they don’t carry...
The Weekly Briefing: Microsoft Intune rollouts and executive moves
Several consulting firms used the work week that preceded Labor Day to announce leadership changes. Boardroom Insight caught up with one of the newly appointed...
The Weekly Briefing: Field service software and AI readiness evaluations
AWS and other large cloud operators have online storefronts that enable customers to buy partner-developed software. In many cases, it’s also possible to purchase consulting...