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How to Use Consultants – the ultimate video guide
 
 VideoJug - the leading
online video guide to
life - has partnered
with London consulting
firm Moorhouse
Consulting to demystify
the role of the much
maligned management
consultant.
   VideoJug.com, whose
mission is "Life
Explained. On Film.",
currently features over
2,000 films including
How to kiss
passionately, How to
make the best English
breakfast and How to
perform the perfect golf
swing. 		 
    CEO Dan Thompson
believes that there is a
need to explain the
world of business, and
that the management
consulting industry
seems an obvious place
to start.
   "Consultants are a
bit like lawyers and
estate agents: there is
a lot of uncertainty
about what it is they
actually do, when to use
them and when not to,
and what value they
actually bring,” he
said.
   "The Inside Track on
using Consultants is		 
 one of VideoJug's first
business 'how to' videos
and is an attempt to
de-mystify the world of
consulting and offer
basic guidelines on how
to choose, use and, if
necessary, excuse a
management consultant."
   Thompson added: "I
think people who are
either currently working
with consultants, or are
planning to do so in the
future will find the
film a real eye opener.
You can discover how to
use a consultant to get
best value in under 10
minutes." 		 
    The consultants
featured are from the
Westminster-based
project management firm
Moorhouse Consulting.
Managing director Dom
Moorhouse said that his
staff suggested the
partnership with
VideoJug to him as an
ideal way to demonstrate
their commitment to
raising industry
standards, by being
clearer about what they
do and how they do it.
   "At Moorhouse we are
passionate about
consulting with
integrity, and we hope		 
 the film provides some
basic guidelines about
how to use consultants
like us to best effect,”
he said.
   "There is an
important message to get
across about what we do
but by making this film
for VideoJug, we've
delivered it in a light
hearted way."
  
   To view the video
visit:
http://www.moorhousecons
ulting.co.uk.		 
 
Detica doubles revenues with acquisitions and organic growth
 
 Detica Group PLC has
posted increases in
full-year pretax profit
and revenues on strong
organic growth and
acquisitions, and said
it continues to see
healthy demand for its
services. Adjusted
pretax profit rose to
£17.3m for the year to
31 March, which the
company said was broadly
in line with analysts'
average forecast of
£17m. Revenues gained
54% to £156.1m
($308.7m), which
compared with a forecast
of £153m, driven by a
28% organic growth rate,
as well as the impact of		 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 smaller business,
Inforenz Limited,
increasing its computer
forensics capability.
   Detica said the
results were also
positively affected by
the full year impact of
the acquisition of
Evolution and the small
National Security
business acquired in the
2006 financial year.
   Detica has decided to
integrate loss-making
Internet security unit
StreamShield into the
company to reduce costs
and achieve a positive
impact on profits going
forward. The integration
will cost Detica £1.9m		 
 over the next two years.
   A spokesman said the
"continuing good health
of the consulting market
has led to increased
competition to attract
the best people and to
high salary inflation in
certain sectors like
capital markets".
   In response the
company is strengthening
its HR management team,
introducing new and
attractive staff reward
schemes such as flexible
benefits, and
introducing new career
management and grading
structures.
   Detica said it
continues to see healthy		 
 demand for its services
across its markets and
the outlook for the
company remains "good".
   The company said it's
optimistic about its
future performance in
the UK where it expects
to continue to grow well
ahead of the underlying
market. In addition,
Detica expects to see
its US revenues grow
strongly and its margins
improve as the company
builds on the
acquisition of DFI and
m.a.partners.
   		 
 acquisitions.
   Detica said it
realised two long-stated
strategic objectives
during the year:
building, via the
acquisitions of DFI
International (DFI) and
m.a.partners, a
meaningful presence in
the US National Security
market; and developing a
substantial business in
the capital markets
sector.
   During the year
Detica also acquired a		 
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