IT Consulting (Emerging Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the IT consulting industry, primarily in the United States. The paper gives a snapshot summary of the emerging industry in the US, with additional sections on its development, organisation and structure, current conditions and leading companies.

Emerging Industry Overview: IT Consulting

Industry Snapshot

Only one segment of the larger information technology (IT) services continuum, IT consulting is the weighty and highly competitive business of telling companies what technologies to buy and how to deploy them. Paradoxically, although IT consulting has relatively few entry barriers--it's largely just a matter of having some expertise in an area of technology--serving top tier clients like the Fortune 500 is an opportunity usually accessible to only a handful of consultancies, themselves often among the Fortune elite.

The consulting side of information technology (IT) has evolved with the onset of e-business or...

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