Consulting industry in the past has grown significantly through acquisitions and entering new markets while maintaining a federated culture running a portfolio of divisions or operating companies who is responsible for their own markets, projects and back office functions (Finance, HR and Technology). With the current tougher global economic climate the Construction industry is determining how to better deliver their global services at a lower cost while maintaining the ownership and value at local business or country level.
This challenges the existing culture, organizational structures, operating models and to determine how this could be run more effectively across a global group including transforming the back office function, indirect and direct procurement spend. The larger customers of the industry are also demanding a global solution to customer relationships including covering the end to end solution (eg Professional, Construction and Support Services) which requires a closer working relationship within a group.

