Two new hires, a data scientist, and a practice leader on their challenges and motivations, succeeding at IBM, and the qualities future consultants will need.
IBM Opens 3rd Worldwide Analytics Center in Beijing | WSJ.com
“It’s very different from traditional consulting, because you bring in research, mathematics, and very heavy duty statistics and optimization, which you need high computing power and complex software to do well,” Marc Chapman, general manager of IBM Global Business Services in Greater China, told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Monday.
Saul Berman is the global leader for the Strategy & Change consulting practice within IBM Global Business Services. He can be reached at saul.berman@us.ibm.com. For a copy of IBM’s study “Succeeding in the New Economic Environment,” click here. (via What Sets Today’s Winning Companies Apart - Forbes.com)
IBM biggest foray yet into consulting will try to tap into the one area of the tech market expected to grow this year: analytics (via IBM’s Big Push into Business Consulting - BusinessWeek)
