{"id":4442,"date":"2022-05-20T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/current-index-on-the-business-situation-in-the-consulting-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:07:32","slug":"current-index-on-the-business-situation-in-the-consulting-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/current-index-on-the-business-situation-in-the-consulting-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Current index on the business situation in the consulting sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kacaj00t-fa0513dd0e1be07f861abe253f48a7ec '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Good business situation &#8211; weaker outlook<\/h3>\n<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 365.883px; top: 438.29px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif;\" role=\"presentation\">D<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 377.883px; top: 438.29px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07781);\" role=\"presentation\">he report published by the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 435.283px; top: 438.29px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07212);\" role=\"presentation\">Federal Association of German<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 467.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09192);\" role=\"presentation\">councils<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 163.04px; top: 467.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08086);\" role=\"presentation\">consultancies<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 217.633px; top: 467.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02085);\" role=\"presentation\">(BDU)<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 269.433px; top: 467.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09081);\" role=\"presentation\">quarterly business climate survey in the consulting industry<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 495.89px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09821);\" role=\"presentation\">consulting industry<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 325.083px; top: 495.89px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.05872);\" role=\"presentation\">for the 1st quarter of 20<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 485.483px; top: 495.89px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.997989);\" role=\"presentation\">22<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 508.483px; top: 495.89px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07188);\" role=\"presentation\">concluded that the current business<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 524.49px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.085);\" role=\"presentation\">business situation is still considered to be good in many cases, but that the outlook is<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 553.29px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08771);\" role=\"presentation\">clouding over.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 295.433px; top: 668.324px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.05782);\" role=\"presentation\">Almost 80 percent<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 440.883px; top: 668.324px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07807);\" role=\"presentation\">of the market participants<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 604.717px; top: 668.324px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08934);\" role=\"presentation\">remain<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 667.717px; top: 668.324px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.09208);\" role=\"presentation\">despite growing<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 759.567px; top: 668.324px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.0375);\" role=\"presentation\">en<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 697.124px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.05396);\" role=\"presentation\">uncertainties<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 194.433px; top: 697.124px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07837);\" role=\"presentation\">uncertainties<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 305.633px; top: 697.124px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08841);\" role=\"presentation\">their current sales plans. <\/span> <\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 305.633px; top: 697.124px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08841);\" role=\"presentation\"><span id=\"page3R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"> <\/span>However, large consulting firms are more skeptical in their assessment of business development over the next six months, while medium-sized management consultancies are more optimistic. Differences in project volumes and corresponding budget planning are likely to contribute to this divergent assessment.   <\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid6\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 305.633px; top: 697.124px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08841);\" role=\"presentation\"><span id=\"page25R_mcid5\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 607.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00289);\" role=\"presentation\">Across all size segments <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 630.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00265);\" role=\"presentation\">15 percent expect a less favorable business outlook in the next six months. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left: 141.84px; top: 653.09px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.999597);\" role=\"presentation\">months<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdu.de\/media\/356428\/gki_q1-2022_-13042022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Consulting Industry Index (BDU)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}