Strategy & war — Part II

In consulting, human capital is everything. Real experts are rare and have long been fought over, especially in a growth region like the Middle East where cultural compatibility is a key need. Now it looks as if the region’s scarcity of qualified consultants is taking the war for local talent to a whole new level. This is the second installment in a three part investigation into recent developments at Strategy& since it combined forces with global services organization PwC. Read part I here. [pullquote]What happened was “a meeting of the minds” between PwC and Booz, says Saddi[/pullquote] From the C-suite narrative, there was a straightforward logic behind the decision to combine Booz & Company with PwC, a move that Booz’s global layer of top stakeholders approved in December 2013 and that was formally sealed in April 2014. What happened was “a meeting of the minds” between PwC and Booz, says Joe Saddi,