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Capgemini results rocket as "Booster Plan" is launched     Capgemini has this last week revealed strong quarterly revenue growth, most notably in the European market but with the US market also showing encouraging signs of growth.    In its Q1 2005 results announcement, Capgemini impressed with quarterly revenues of €1.7bn, up 19.1% year-on-year and 3.7 % on Q4 2004 results. The announcement marked the     Europe, rising 22%, but the US market also produced positive results posting revenue growth of 8%. Growth in outsourcing revenues has been an important contributor to the turnaround success, with outsourcing revenues now representing 36% of revenues versus 28% in the first half of 2004. Also encouraging was the reported improvement in staff utilisation rates,     now running at 78.6% compared with 75% in the year-ago period.    Alongside the revenue improvements, Capgemini have also introduced a new programme specifically to turnaround the profitability of the US business.    The "Booster Plan" being introduced by Capgemini's new hire Pierre Danon (formerly a senior executive at BT)     is targeting three major changes in the North America business: An optimisation of the use of internal resources and a 30% reduction in subcontractors; strong leverage of offshore capabilities and; a slashing of support and administrative costs by 30%.        third consecutive quarter of growth for Capgemini, following a more difficult period in the 2003/4 financial year.    Revenue growth was particularly strong in

EDS to spin off A.T. Kearney     EDS CEO Michael Jordan has confirmed that the company hopes to sell A. T. Kearney by the end of the year.    In an interview with Reuters Jordan said that he expects to spin off A.T. Kearney to its partners, who would seek financing to take the company private.     recovering plan.    Jordan ruled out the possibility of selling the business to another company, saying that a straight sale will not work. He said this kind of business, referring to A.T. Kearney, cannot be sold, as it's driven by key people.    The price will be     "several hundred million," he said. Asked whether it could exceed $700 million, he said no.    EDS bought A.T. Kearney in 1995 for about $300 million.    Jordan, a former consultant himself, said he believes the consultancy would     flourish if officers owned equity in the firm. He would like to give partners ownership so they can share profits and better align their own interests with the firm.           For the last year the company has strongly denied media and analysts' speculations that the money-losing consultancy will be sold as part of EDS'

So who is the largest interactive consultancy in the UK?     Remember the e-consulting powerhouses of the dot-com boom? Razorfish, Scient, Lante? You'll recall these businesses were     all acquired by the US consultancy SBI and Company, who then sold its UK business to Framfab late in 2003 in a complicated deal.        Well now Framfab have gone one step further with the £12m acquisition this week of interactive agency Oyster Partners - which     the firms claim will create the definitive market leader in the UK market through the addition of some 130 staff and clients such     as Abbey, BT, NHS and Thomas Cook.

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