[Last Updated: 27 March 2011]
THE list of strategy and general business consulting firms is part of the full list of consulting firms in Australia:
Tier One Strategy – Global
Tier One Strategy – Australian
4. Port Jackson Partners
5. Pacific Strategy Partners
6. Crescendo Partners
7. Momentum Partners
Tier Two Strategy – Global
8. A.T. Kearney
9. Booz Allen Hamilton
10. LEK
11. Oliver Wyman
Mainstream – Global
12. Accenture
13. Deloitte
14. PwC
Mainstream – Australian
15. PKF
16. The Nous Group
17. Compass Consulting
18. Dowling
19. Mettle Consulting
20. Nexus Consulting
21. Oyster Consulting
22. RK Consultancy Services
23. SMT Consulting
24. The Birchman Group
1. McKinsey
Website: www.mckinsey.com.au
Founded in Chicago in 1926, McKinsey is the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and operates in 90 locations across 51 countries. In Australia, McKinsey operates out of Sydney and Melbourne.
McKinsey works internationally in a broad range of industries with large private sector institutions, governments and other non-profit institutions.
2. Bain & Company
Website: www.bain.com
Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. Bain operates in 38 offices across 25 countries. In Ausralia, Bain operates out of Sydney and Melbourne.
Bain is well-known for offering services like due diligence, IPO preparation, portfolio profit improvement and revenue enhancement geared toward leveraged buyout and venture capital firms.
3. BCG
Website: www.bostonconsulting.com.au
Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson, BCG operates in 66 offices across 38 countries. In Australia, BCG operates out of Sydney and Melbourne.
BCG specialises in business strategy and draws most of its clients from the 500 largest corporations worldwide, as well as working with smaller companies, non-profit organisations and government agencies.
4. Port Jackson Partners
Website: www.pjpl.com.au
Port Jackson Partners was founded in July 1991 by Terrey Arcus and Fred Hilmer to counsel the CEOs of select corporations. PJP is a boutique consultancy firm based in Sydney.
PJP’s Australian clients come from a diverse range of industries (e.g. financial sector, service industry, and industrial sector) and are typically top 100 listed companies, but a few are large government owned corporations. PJP focuses on helping companies with strategy and organisation.
5. Pacific Strategy Partners
Website: www.pacificstrategy.com.au
Founded in 2003, Pacific Strategy Partners has offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
Pacific Strategy Partners deploys low leveraged teams to provide clients with Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support.
6. Crescendo Partners
Website: www.crescendopartners.com.au
Crescendo Partners is based in Sydney and has extensive experience providing value to clients across the globe.
Crescendo Partners is an elite high value consulting, advisory and private equity firm. Services include strategy consulting, M&A support, capital raising, and private equity investment.
7. Momentum Partners
Website: www.momentumpartners.com.au
Founded in 2004, Momentum Partners is based in Perth and operates across Australia.
Services include strategy, business improvement, organisation development, and corporate advisory. Staff have direct operational experience in a range of environments, and business consulting experience at the commercial planning and strategic level. Clients include small and large companies in the resources, construction, and energy sectors.
8. A.T. Kearney
Website: www.atkearney.com
Founded in 1926, A.T. Kearney operates across 51 locations world wide. In Australia, A.T. Kearney operates out of Sydney and Melbourne.
A.T. Kearney’s mission is to help the world’s leading corporations gain and sustain a competitive advantage, and to achieve profound, tangible results for its clients. Services offered include: complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability.
9. Booz Allen Hamilton
Website: www.boozallen.com
Founded in Chicago in 1914 by Edwin G. Booz, BAH operates in 115 offices across six continents. In Ausralia, BAH operates out of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Canberra.
BAH has its main area of expertise in strategy and technology consulting, working in both the commercial and government sectors.
10. LEK Consulting
Website: lekconsulting.com.au
Founded in 1983, LEK now has more than 850 consultants in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. LEK has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
LEK’s portfolio of services draws on its core capabilities of research, benchmarking, modelling, analysis and strategy development to help companies determine the best way forward.
11. Oliver Wyman
Website: www.oliverwyman.com
Founded in New York in 1984, Oliver Wyman operates across 19 countries. In Australia, Oliver Wyman operates out of Sydney.
Services offered by Oliver Wyman include business transformation, organisation & leadership, finance & risk, marketing & sales, operations & technology, and strategy.
12. Accenture
Website: www.accenture.com
Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 150 cities across the world. In Australia, Accenture operates in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Wollongong.
Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management.
13. Deloitte
Website: www.deloitte.com
Founded in 1893 in the US, Deloitte has a strong global presence and operates in all capital cities of Australia.
Although offering a large number of accounting services, Deloitte also has a consulting practice. The consulting practice offers HR, outsourcing, strategy & operations, and technology consulting.
14. PwC
Website: www.pwc.com
Created in 1998 out of the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, PwC has historical roots going back some 150 years. PwC operates in 154 countries worldwide. In Australia, PwC has offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth Sydney, Townsville.
PwC provides assurance, advisory and tax services. PwCs consulting arm indicates that “people engage PricewaterhouseCoopers to help them design, manage and execute lasting change.”
15. PKF
Website: www.pkf.com.au
PKF has some 400 offices in 119 countries worldwide. In Australia, PKF operates in Canberra, Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Townsville Adelaide, Mount Barker, Hobart, Melbourne and Perth.
PKF in Australia is a specialist group of chartered accountants and consulting firms. PKF provides organisational development, taxation, and IT services, as well as providing consulting services to government.
16. The Nous Group
Website: www.nousgroup.com.au
Founded in 1999, Nous has offices in Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Manila.
Nous has a number of capabilities including strategy & public policy, Leadership & people development, Organisational capability, and Information Management & Technology.
17. Compass Consulting
Website: www.compassconsulting.com.au
Founded in 1980 in Sweden by Olof Söderblom, Compass now operates across 15 countries. In Australia, Compass in located in Sydney.
Compass services are designed to address a wide range of challenges related to managing business operations. These include enhancing operational efficiency, developing and implementing effective sourcing solutions, optimiszing the value contribution of IT, managing change programs to maximize benefit to the business, and monitoring performance levels and ensuring communication throughout the enterprise.
18. Dowling
Website: www.dowlingconsulting.biz
Founded in 2001, Dowling is a boutique consultancy that has its head office in Melbourne and also operates in Sydney and Frankfurt.
Dowling has clients in the mining, metals, industrials, consumer goods, retail and logistics industries. Its services include the provision of strategic business analysis, IT and supply-chain management transformation. In 2006/07, Dowling was recognised on the BRW Fast Starters list as the 27th fastest growing firm in Australia.
19. Mettle Consulting
Website: www.mettle.biz
Created in April 2004 through the merger of three consulting firms, Mettle is located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the UK.
Mettle has worked in the transformational change field for more than 20 years, and has worked with large and medium sized corporates, not-for-profit and government organisations.
20. Nexus Consulting
Website: www.nexusconsulting.com.au
Founded in 1996 by Greg Masters, Nexus is located in Sydney and has strategic partnerships with a number of other leading consulting firms.
Nexus specialises in public sector organisational dynamics, strategic planning, evaluation and group facilitation.
21. Oyster Consulting
Website: www.oysterconsulting.com
Oyster Consulting is based in Perth.
Oyster Consulting has strong resource industry experience, and offers a range of services including corporate strategy and business planning, business analysis, services optimisation, business improvement, and organisational design services.
22. RK Consultancy Services
Website: www.rkconsulting.com.au
Founded by its principal, Robert Kalivoda, RKCS is a boutique consulting firm based in Melbourne.
RKCS specialises in risk management, commercial advisory, project management and technology management services. RKCS has worked for the Victorian, NSW and Queensland State Governments and the private sector in providing professional commercial solutions and services across a range of infrastructure, public transport, energy, water, education, health and IT related projects.
23. SMT Consulting
Website: www.smt.com.au
SMT is located in Sydney and Melbourne.
SMT is a specialist supply chain technology and business performance consultancy.
24. The Birchman Group
Website: www.thebirchmangroup.com
The Birchman Group operates across 9 countries. In Australia, Birchman operates in Sydney and Perth.
The Birchman Group offers a range of services including strategy development, business case development, programme management, benefits tracking, process improvement, and change management.
{ 21 comments }
thanks, I will move to Melbourne from NYC and was looking for an overview like that.
This is a great work. I am starting out a consulting coy focusing on Human Resources and Business Development Management Services for Small and Medium size Businesses in Africa. I came online looking for coys for benchmarking,what i got is pleasant and very useful.
A good job.
I will be back
Chris Owojori
+2348056447636
Great work Tom.
You are a champion, Tom. I am looking for a non-consulting position in a consultancy firm and you made my job search task easy. I will write back to you with my progress.
Excellent work
Helanath
Thanks Helanath, you’ve made my day! I am very happy that you’ve found this information useful.
This is brilliant!
Thanks a lot Tom. This is really good particularly the office locations!!
Thanks very much Tom. I am looking to break into this industry in Sydney and this site is a great starting point. Well Done!
Now thats what i call precise n accurate!!..Great job Tom!
Hi Tom,
This is such a good way to start my search! I am looking for a career break in Sydney and this list will help me get started. Well done and thanks for sharing your efforts. We need more generous people like you in this world:)
David- have you had luck in your search? I’m based in Sydney too and keen to know how your going? Hopefully all well?
-Rebecca
Hey Tom, I’m from Canada was looking for employment with an international consultancy after graduation from university. I found my current job through this list, thanks so much.
curious as to why PwC is not mentioned at ALL on your site with respect to consutling firms in general, in aust etc.
-Tom
Tom,
Thanks for the comment, good question! That would seem to be an oversight on my part. The omission probably ocurred because PwC in Australia has a strong reputation for accounting and when I was thinking about business consulting firms, I simply overlooked them.
I will add PwC to the list.
Cheers,
Tom
that’s what i figuired, however i thought about pwc consulting, their consulting arm that was sold to ibm GBS. curious to hear your thoughts / rants about it as you’ve ranked deloitte and accenture pretty high up.
-Tom.
Hi Tom
Appeciate your efforts in compiling the list. Do you have an updated version
Secondly where are the boutique consultancies in Australia on your list, and who did you see as the major players in this category?
I welcome your thoughts
Regards
Vic Hodge
Head of Consulting
Pacific Micromarketing
Hi Tom,
Your list has saved me a lot of time and allowed me to refine my prospect list.
Thanks
Anthony
Great job Tom! The information is precise and very useful.
Great site. Good SEO as it ranked 1 on my search too. I noticed some consultancies not mentioned in Australia. Can I respectfully suggest them:
Edgar Dunn (US based)
Partners in Performance
Third Horizon
Black Dot
All the best with the site.
Cameron
Hi Tom,
Great list, The Litmus Group with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and Brisbane would be a good addition to this list.
Cheers – Julian.
ohhh this is really great! I am looking for this type of consulting firms in australia ..thanks!
Thanks so much Tom this is extremely helpful
A friend of mine who is an Engineer really wants to try Consulting, this list has greatly aided us. And now the hard task of finding graduate employment after the graduate apps have closed!
Sash
Glad you found the list helpful, Sash!
Consider joining the consulting forum, to discuss your ideas, thoughts and questions with other people passionate about consulting.
Best, Tom.