Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Bill to place pre-employment consultancy service on a statutory basis and widen its remit to include vulnerable adults in certain settings.

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His firm, a marketing consultancy for professional service providers, released the results of a survey of 200 business-book authors.

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Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an innovative economic and geo-strategic information service and consultancy.

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That union, says Esteban Kolsky of Gartner, a consultancy, is now doing for the service sector what mass production once did for manufacturing: automating processes and significantly cutting costs.

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Only 3% of business-to-business Web sites are designed for direct sales, rather than for marketing and customer service, says Forrester Research, a Massachusetts consultancy.

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He worked for 18 years at the BBC World Service, and has set up his own consultancy company that undertakes project assessment and project management assignments in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

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NASSCOM, the Indian software- and service-industry lobby, and McKinsey, a consultancy, back in 1999, are coming true.

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According to a study published by tech consultancy Ovum, WhatsApp is the world's third most popular social messaging service after Facebook Chat and Google Chat.

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According to Ipsos Insight, a marketing research consultancy, 56% of Internet users in the U.S. subscribe to broadband service, and that number is expected to climb to 70% by early 2006.

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