An Interview with SharePoint Consultancy CEO Mike Steadman
As I’ve written elsewhere in Above the Clouds, focus is critical to successfully building enterprise value, particularly among small-to-mid-sized consulting firms. Many firms choose to focus on a particular technology horizontal, vendor or vendor product. A much smaller number choose ...
Employee Retention Strategies & Best Practices
A number of my recent Tweets have touched on spikes in hiring activity and voluntary employee attrition levels among technology consultancies. I see substantial anecdotal evidence of these trends in my chats with CEOs and the drivers are clear: A markedly ...
The Most Important Business Quality Metric for Evaluating Consultancies
I’ve spent a tremendous amount of time evaluating technology consulting businesses over the last 20 years and doing so involves examining a large number of qualitative and quantitative factors. These include things such as revenue, revenue growth rate, client ...
An Interview with Cloud Consultancy CEO Jon Hallett
One of the interesting topics for technology consultancies over the next few years will be how best to navigate operationally as cloud computing continues to take hold. The move to the cloud has ramifications in numerous areas, including evolving ...