Consulting Impact Consulting

ProHub Comment

This is a classic profitability case focused on cost structure and operational efficiency in a professional services firm. The case requires candidates to analyze billability metrics, workforce composition, and cost-reduction opportunities through both headcount optimization and geographic arbitrage. The quantitative components demand careful calculation while the qualitative elements test understanding of consulting industry dynamics and implementation risks.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Hard
Source Duke
50 / 100
Your client “Impact Consulting” is a industry leader in Technology consulting globally. Over the last 3 years Impact consulting has grown its customer base but the overall profitability has reduced. The CFO has hired us to determine what factors are driving low profitability?

Clarifying Information

Client/Company information: It is a multinational company and mostly has office in US and UK

Product information: Impact Consulting provides consulting and implementation services primarily in Cloud Products (like Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud etc.), Customer Relationship Management Products (like those used in Walmart/Target etc.), and Enterprise productivity products (like implementing Office 365 for companies).

Revenue information: Revenue has been stagnant in the last 3 years.