PwC Plans Overhaul of Global Consulting Business: FT

PwC plans to overhaul its global consulting business to improve the way its national firms work together and improve the service for multinational companies, the FT reports, citing five people familiar with the matter.

• Company is planning to standardize training, direct demand to the areas best qualified, and increase the use of shared staff in locations such as India
  • Follows announcement today that it will merge its risk and consulting divisions
• PwC’s global chair Mohamed Kande has been pushing for tighter integration but has pulled back from the most radical options for fear of creating friction in the network, according ...