Huron has acquired a management consultancy called Wilson Perumal & Company to grow its advisory business.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Huron is a Nasdaq-listed consultancy that closed its most recent fiscal year with $1.49 billion in gross sales. According to the firm, about half its revenue comes from healthcare organizations. Huron also has sizable education and private sector practices.

The firm takes on management consulting projects in which it helps clients with tasks such as finding acquisition opportunities. Huron also provides IT services. Its technologists can manage key components of an organization’s technology infrastructure on its behalf, as well as upgrade legacy systems and set up AI software.

Dallas-based Wilson Perumal & Company, or WP&C, also provides a mix of business advisory and IT services. On the business side, the firm’s consultants help clients cut costs and find market expansion opportunities. WP&C’s technology teams, meanwhile, specialize in tasks such as modernizing companies’ data management operations. For example, the firm can turn disorganized supply chain data into a form that lends itself to analysis.

Huron stated that WP&C’s services place an emphasis on helping organizations reduce complexity. Boardroom Insight reached out to the firm for more details. “When we talk about reducing complexity, we mean simplifying the things that slow organizations down or create barriers to performance,” a Huron spokesperson explained. “This can include rationalizing product portfolios, assessing where companies make or lose money across products or customers, streamlining processes, and simplifying organizational structures and operating models. We help companies expose this ‘bad’ complexity, removing non-value-add products, services, activities, and assets that generate cost and consume capital, while capitalizing on the ‘good’ complexity that creates value.”

After WP&C creates a plan for improving a company’s internal processes, it helps executives put the plan into action. “WP&C helps identify the critical actions, initiatives, and investments needed to achieve strategic objectives, then works side-by-side with leaders to bring them to life,” the Huron spokesperson said. “That can include simplifying structures to free up capital, fixing broken linkages across functions, or improving the performance of critical processes.”

About 30 WP&C professionals have joined Huron as part of the acquisition. They brought with them a set of best practices the firm developed over the years to streamline client projects. WP&C will become part of the Huron operating segment that focuses on private sector organizations.

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