List of Major Consulting companies in Vancouver

Generalist firms

KPMG consulting

KPMG is one of the largest professional services companies in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY) and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. KPMG employs 152,000 people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory. Advisory office in Vancouver has almost 10 people, they always have a good relationship with UBC.

Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Its incorporated headquarters are in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the world’s largest consulting firm as measured by revenues.

PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (trading as PwC) is a multinational professional services network. It is the world’s second largest professional services network, as measured by 2013 revenues. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 184,000 people. It had total revenues of $32.1 billion in FY 2013. It has advisory, insurance and tax services.

Deloitte

Deloitte is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and by the number of professionals. Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services with more than 200,000 professionals in over 150 countries.

Ernst & Young (EY)

EY is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, UK. The organization operates as a network of member firms which are separate legal entities in individual countries. It has 190,000 employees and more than 700 offices in over 150 countries. It provides assurance (including financial audit), tax, consulting and advisory services to companies

Aon plc

Aon plc (NYSE: AON) is a leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting.

Aon acquired Hewitt: Hewitt Associates was an American provider of human capital and management consulting services. It operated 500 offices in 120 countries providing consulting, outsourcing, and insurance brokerage services.

Towers Watson & Co.

Towers Watson & Co. is an American global professional services firm. Its principal lines of business are risk management and human resource consulting. It also has actuarial and investment consulting practices. Towers Watson’s corporate offices are located in New York, New York.

Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton is the world’s sixth largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms which provide assurance, tax and advisory services to privately held businesses, public interest entities, and public sector entities.

FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a business consultancy firm with its headquarters in Washington, DC offering business services in corporate finance and restructuring, economic consulting, forensic and litigation consulting, strategic communications and technology. The company was founded in 1982, and employs more than 4,200 staff in 26 countries

Strategy consultancy firm

The Big Three or MBB when used in relation to the consulting industry, refers to the three major strategy consulting firms: McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Bain & Company, which none of them has an office in Vancouver.

Hay Group

Hay Group is a global management consulting firm based in Philadelphia, US, with 87 offices in 49 countries as of 2013.

MERCER

Mercer is an American global human resource and related financial services consulting firm, headquartered in New York City. Mercer is one of the largest consulting firms in the world, operating internationally in more than 40 countries with more than 19,000 employees

Human Resource consulting firms

 

Towers Watson:

Clear HR: Consulting: BC-based Clear HR Consulting offers human resources consulting and online HR training to small businesses across Canada.

Robert Half

Robert Half is an American human resource consulting firm based in Menlo Park, California. It is a member of the S&P 500, credited as being the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm, with over 400 locations worldwide.

ManpowerGroup

ManpowerGroup is an American multinational human resource consulting firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Manpower provides recruitment and assessment, training and development, career management, outsourcing, and workforce consulting.

 

BPI group

BPI group is the global management and HR consulting firm that leading organizations rely on to align, engage, develop, and transition talent.

Technology consulting Firms

AMEC plc

AMEC is a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, UK.  It is focused on the oil and gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, environment and infrastructure markets.

 

IBM.

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in New York, United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

MWH Global

MWH Global is a global wet infrastructure firm, providing technical engineering, construction services and consulting solutions to protect, enhance, store and distribute water.

Fujitsu Consulting

is the consulting and services arm of the Fujitsu group, providing information technology consulting, implementation and management service

 

Unisys

Unisys Corporation is an American global information technology company based in Pennsylvania, that provides a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology.

KEMA NV,

is a global energy consultancy company headquartered in Arnhem, Netherlands. It offers management consulting, technology consulting & services to the energy value chain that include business and technical consultancy, operational support, measurements & inspection, and testing & certification services

SAP consulting

With almost 8,000 SAP practitioners in 23 countries and deep industry expertise, CSC offers proven SAP solutions for Mobility, HANA, Cloud, ERP, Big Data and Analytics, and Cybersecurity.

Hatch

Hatch is a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. Its group companies have more than 11,000 staff in 65 offices on six continents. In 2009 it was one of the 100 largest companies in Canada, with sales over CDN $1 billion

CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. is a multinational information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, and solutions company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Avanade Inc.

Avanade Inc. was founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft to serve an untapped market for Microsoft-focused consulting services. The company provides IT services focused on the Microsoft platform for midsize to large enterprise organizations. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company has 70+ locations worldwide and employs more than 19,600 professionals. Today, Avanade is majority-owned by Accenture.

Cap Gemini S.A.

Cap Gemini S.A. is a French multinational corporation headquartered in Paris, France. It provides IT services and is one of the world’s largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with more than 130,000 employees in over 40 countries
Affiliated Computer Services Inc.

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) provides information technology services as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Financial Consultants

These consultants offer specialist advice in areas such as the installation of budgetary control systems to office reorganization and administrative arrangements.

Marketing Consulting Companies

Hill+Knowlton Strategies is a global public relations company, headquartered in New York City, United States, with 90 offices in 52 countries.

Niche Firms

These are smaller practices with up to 100 consultants, specializing in certain industry or business sectors. Often set up by an experienced consultant with an area of expertise.

SLR Consulting

SLR Consulting is a privately owned international environmental consultancy with offices in Europe, North America, Australasia, and Africa. In 2011, it reported revenues of £67.3 million.

SECOR

SECOR has built a name for itself as an emerging international strategic management consulting firm, with major offices in Montreal, New York, Paris, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver.

ENVIRON Holdings

ENVIRON Holdings, Inc. is a privately held, international environmental, safety and health sciences consulting firm headquartered in Arlington, the firm today has operations in more than 90 offices in 21 countries, with more than 1,000 consultants. ENVIRON’s work frequently involves addressing interrelated scientific, business and policy issues to help clients assess and mitigate potential risks, to ensure regulatory compliance or to achieve sustainable performance targets.

Courtyard Group

Courtyard Group is a healthcare transformation company. Working with and for clients in the healthcare industry is all we do. We combine a deep, core knowledge of healthcare systems management and planning, change management, information management and technology with the disciplines of systems engineering, law, business, operations management and several areas of clinical practice.