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Evening Standard's Consulting Special reaches 855,000 potential hires     The publication of a new quarterly “Consulting Special” section in the Evening Standard on 27 February broke new ground. The initiative is the result of a partnership between Top-Consultant.com and the London newspaper. The first edition spanned five pages and our thanks go to all those who contributed to the inaugural edition, most notably: David Thomlinson, UK & Ireland MD of Accenture; Steve Varley, head of advisory services at Ernst & Young; Sej Butler, North East Europe HR partner – recruitment, IBM Business Consulting; Gareth Bunn, head of public sector consulting services at     Capgemini; Fiona Czerniawska, director of the Management Consultancies Association’s think tank; and Mick James, journalist at Top-Consultant.com.    The edition reached an audience of 855,000 readers drawn from businesses and organisations across the capital. Amongst the editorial pieces was a review of the role the consulting industry has played in the public sector change agenda, a counter-balance to the barrage of negative press coverage that has appeared in the UK media over the last months. This was one of the initial aims of the partnership, as     Top-Consultant Director Tony Restell commented at the time of its announcement late last year:    “Recently there has been a spate of very one-sided press coverage of the consulting industry. In striking this partnership with the Evening Standard, our aim is firstly to provide some more balanced coverage of the UK consulting industry – and to talk about all the positive ways in which consulting firms benefit the UK economy and many of our largest corporations. We also want to provide our clients with a new recruitment channel for reaching potential hires - and this new     partnership allows us to offer print advertising as well as online advertising solutions.”    The Consulting Special featured five in-depth editorials that will be reproduced on Top-Consultant.com in the coming weeks. Headline stories were: Boom time for consultants – growth prospects for the UK industry are looking positive ; Recruiters struggling to meet demand – hiring staff is the number one constraint to growth ; Have you got what it takes? – firms now hiring in staff from outside the consulting sector ; Innovation is the name of our game    – an interview with     Accenture’s UK & Ireland       MD David Thomlinson; Consultants driving change – a more balanced assessment of the consulting industry and its role in transforming the UK public sector .    Click here for the PDF sample of this edition.       The next quarterly consulting specials in the Evening Standard are scheduled to appear in the 15 May and 25 September editions. Advertisers interested in having a presence in these special management consultancy feature sections should contact iris@top-consultant.com

Egremont reveals the identity of ‘CEO 2.0’     The next generation CEO is younger, does more for less and doesn’t hang around – but is more likely to stay in the role for longer if he or she is home- grown, according to research from Egremont, the change management consultant.    Egremont has conducted research into the changing face of the CEO, and has made some interesting findings about ‘CEO 2.0’.    Egremont has found that:       - Over the last 10     years, CEO average tenure has dropped from 11.5 to 8.3 years – hitting record lows in 2006;       - CEO turnover is increasing significantly: in 2006, 15% of European CEOs left their job – roughly five times as many as left their position in 1995;       - Over the same period, average age is getting younger: last year, 15% of American CEOs were under 55 – yet in 1995 this was only 8.8%;           - The average age of CEOs at FTSE 100 companies is now 52 years: between 2004 and 2007 the average dropped by more than a year;       - CEO remuneration has skyrocketed over the past 10 years – however there is no measurable correlation between remuneration and performance (according to a recent Forbes study);       - Over the longer term, home-grown CEOs are more likely to stay     longer.       Sean Connolly, director at Egremont, commented: “There are significantly more pressures on chief executives now than 10 years ago. Companies are bigger and chief executives need to lead with more innovation to stay on top – and their profile is changing to reflect this.”    He added: “The most obvious change is age. At HMV Alan Giles retired in his 60s and was replaced by Simon Fox, who is 46.     Lord Brown at BP is 58 and his successor, Tony Hayward, is only 49.”    “The behaviours of CEO 2.0 mean that the need to demonstrate improved return on investment becomes ever more acute – chief executives can no longer expect a 20 year innings to deliver on their promises,” concluded Connolly.

BearingPoint considers EMEA business unit sale     BearingPoint is considering selling a stake in its Europe, Middle East and Africa business unit to employees.    The company said it’s mulling over the sale of a "significant portion of its investment" in the EMEA business unit to employees of the unit, but it added that, at this time, it’s only exploring the option and no specific plans or timetable for a final decision have been approved by its board of     company's overall sales, but the region contributed only 13% of gross profit due in part to severance costs in Germany, France and Spain.    BearingPoint also announced its preliminary results for the full year 2006, but the company is not yet up to date in its accounts and will miss the 1 March deadline for filing its 2006 financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It now expects to complete the     report in June and to be back on track with its quarterly filings in the third quarter of 2007, after the design and implementation of a new accounting system is completed.    The company estimates 2006 revenue grew 2% to 5% to a range of $3.45bn to $3.55bn, slightly ahead of analysts’ expectations. However, the costs of auditing and rebuilding its systems, and the settlement of some problem contracts means that it will report     a pretax loss of $144m to $214m.    BearingPoint filed its report for the year 2005 in November which revealed a loss of $721.6m, or $3.59 per share, on revenue of $3.39bn.    CEO You also revealed that it has brought in Ernst & Young to audit its 2007 accounts, while PWC works simultaneously on completing 2006.        directors.    "We believe that exploring this option for our EMEA business unit will enable us to accelerate our vision to become the next great consultancy and springboard the company's growth," said chief executive Harry You.    EMEA contributed revenue of $662m in 2005, just under 20% of the