Tom Puthiyamadam, PwC global digital services leader. PwC’s digital services division employed 12,776 staffers worldwide at the end of 2016, up from 4,127 a year ago. PwC says 80% of its digital services clients also use the firm’s wider consulting services. Other recent PwC digital services acquisitions have included Dubai-based cloud computing specialist NSI DMCC, U.K. cybersecurity and privacy consultants Everett and Hong Kong design and creative agency Fluid. The CEOs of advertising agency holding companies are routinely questioned about the threat of consulting firms in earnings calls and in interviews.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 31, 2017 06:45 UTC