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Consultancy firms have been on the rise in the recent past. There are many companies which have grown in leaps and bounds and have become market leaders in select domains. The concept of consultancy is that a client company may not have in-house expertise for certain projects and therefore makes sense to tap on an external knowledge source for a specific time or project. It also relieves the client company from having to keep an expensive expert and not utilize the talent resource effectively. The consulting firms can offer such expert services with the help of a host of professionals and can cater to multiple jobs, projects and clients simultaneously and the agreement between the client and the firm may be contractual, short term or long term in nature.
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Booz Allen Hamilton is a leader in global consultancy. It has over 19,000 employees spread over six continents serving clients and integrates the full range of consulting capabilities. Booz Allen Hamilton is such a strong consultancy firm that even the government and large commercial organizations consults them to solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen Hamilton believes in results that endure. Edwin G. Booz is the founder of the company. He graduated in 1914 from the Northwestern University in Illinois and developed the business theory that companies could benefit if expert and impartial opinion was given from someone outside the organization. This was the beginning of a new profession called management consulting and the company founded would bear his name.
Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the oldest management consulting firms in the world owned privately and is also one of the most successful. It has its headquarters in McLean, Virginia and over 100 offices on 6 continents. Booz Allen is wholly owned by its approximately 300 officers. Its list of clients is most impressive and it has offered services to most US government bodies. In 1940, Booz Allen Hamilton was called upon by the United States Secretary of the Navy to help them with the preparation of World War II. This was the start of a long and outstanding relationship with the United States Federal Government.
The services offered by Booz Allen Hamilton are such as Change Management, Economic Business Analysis, Global Resilience, Mergers and Restructurings, Modeling, Simulation & Wargaming, Sales and Marketing, Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Organizations, People & Performance, Institutional Strengthening & International Development, IT Strategy & Systems, Outsourcing Advisory Services, Product and Service Innovation, Program Management and Transformation Life Cycle. It also has vast experience working in sectors such as Industries, Aerospace, Army, Defense, Energy, Intelligence, Navy & Marine Corps, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Transportation and Utilities. Firms like McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company offers stiff competition to Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial business related to consultancy in projects involving strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen's government business primarily competes with firms such as SAIC, IBM, Accenture, systems integrators firms and defense contractors. It serves global governments, agencies, NGOs and almost every part of the United States Government and military infrastructure.
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