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Accenture set to expand technology consulting capabilities     Accenture is to invest more than $250m over the next three years to expand its technology consulting capabilities. The investment is designed to address a strong increase in demand from clients for services and advice from technology -platform-independent services providers.    The investment will enable Accenture to enhance its strategy planning, marketing, offering and asset     and secure their IT infrastructures and applications; improve worker productivity; and implement new consumer-like, Web-based applications that tap into the potential of services-oriented architecture (SOA) and other newer technologies.    "Aligning IT with business strategy has, once again, become a top issue for companies worldwide," said William D. Green, Accenture's     chairman & CEO. "To address this, we are enhancing the end-to-end services we offer through Accenture Technology Consulting, an organisation within our Systems Integration & Technology growth platform. We will complement our rich portfolio of assets and processes with new services that provide greater insight into IT's impact on business performance. This is becoming particularly     important as companies face new challenges in a variety of areas, particularly application renewal, information security and compliance. Our unique status as one of the few, and certainly largest, independent sources for technology services should position us well in addressing the dramatically increased demand we’ve seen for these services over the last year."        development, alliance development and management, and recruiting and training for its technology capabilities.    Specifically, the investment will focus on helping clients: develop IT strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes; standardise, virtualise

Consulting employers jockey for position at 2007 Consultancy Careers Fair     A staggering 47 organisations have already signed up to meet consulting candidates at the 2007 Consultancy Careers Fair, taking place on 12 October at The Barbican in London. That’s five more exhibitors than were confirmed at the corresponding stage last year – and highlights the resourcing issues that consultancies are continuing to face. The organisers believe this year’s rush to secure space has been so fierce because firms have wanted the security of knowing they’ve got a prime spot reserved. Hence, although bookings can be made through to     the end of August, most consultancies have got in early with their reservations.    Top-Consultant.com director Tony Restell believes popularity amongst recruiters reflects a market in which consultancies are seeing rising client demand for their services and an increasingly acute problem in sourcing consultants for newly won assignments:    “A number of consultancies are reporting they are now running at 95%+ utilisation rates, which means they are in constant danger of being unable to resource new     projects as they are won. To overcome this shortfall, consulting firms are vying to persuade candidates to join their firm rather than one of the competition – and face-to-face events such as this are one of the best ways of achieving that aim.”    Visitors to this year’s fair will be able to meet three of the “Big Four” accountancy firms – Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG; many of the world’s leading consulting brands such as Accenture, Atos Consulting, BT and IBM; plus a diverse range of exciting niche firms like Capco, Curzon,     Detica, expw: consulting and Troika.    The Consultancy Careers Fair is being marketed more extensively than ever this year, to ensure firms have the chance to interact with a broad range of top-flight consulting candidates. An extensive advertising campaign in the Evening Standard was launched last month, adding to promotion from the Management Consultancies Association and the Institute of Business Consulting. Vault and MCN Direct are just two more of the many marketing partners that have been signed up to maximise the reach of     the 2007 event.       Readers wishing to secure one of the limited candidate entry passes may register at: http://www.theconsultanc ycareersfair.com/visitors /WhyAttend.aspx       Recruiters interested in finding out about exhibiting at this year’s Careers Fair should contact Sacha Jackson on sachaj@top-consultant.co m

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