Title: IBM Business Consulting Services: The WetFeet Insider Guide
Description: Remember the date October 2, 2002. That’s when IBM’s metamorphosis to a service company reached a new milestone, when a huge, new business group under the Global Services umbrella was unveiled: IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS). BCS combines PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting—a Big Five consultancy that IBM acquired for $3.5 billion in the summer of 2002—with IBM’s existing Business Innovation Services unit. Find out more about BCS by reading this brand new guide.    You will learn:  How and why IBM shifted its focal point from selling hardware to providing services, including consulting  What the strategy is behind acquiring PwC Consulting  Where IBM BCS now ranks against other big management consulting firms  How BCS is organized into 13 business units, and who runs the entire group  What life is like as a research associate or consultant  More!
Subjects: Business, Careers, Nonfiction