TBR professional services experts share an exclusive look at TBR’s newest forecast research, the IT Services Market Forecast and the Consulting & Systems Integration Market Forecast, as well as insights into the factors that could accelerate IT services revenue growth and disruptions that could bend the growth curve into negative territory.
With AI more difficult to adopt than expected and change management the bugaboo that never fades, a third element still exists in keeping the Big Four from significantly expanding in the midmarket: the competition.
With the recent hype around the “death of SaaS” and other pressures on the business models of technology companies, Salesforce’s growing presence, success, and apparent disruption of competitors and alliance partners alike underscore Salesforce’s strengths in creating stickier client relationships and continually innovating, two qualities essential in the agentic AI age.
KPMG appears to be attempting to move the competitive battleground from implementation speed to governed operations. If the market evolves in this direction, partners and competitors will need to clarify their roles and demonstrate credibility in an environment where agentic transformation is treated less as a discrete project and more as a continuously governed system.
Principal Analyst & Practice Manager Patrick Heffernan and TBR’s Professional Services team discuss which macro trends will shape demand for consulting and IT services over the next five years, how companies have positioned themselves for accelerated AI adoption, and which companies will outpace peers and why.
Explore TBR’s top takeaways from PwC Australia’s February analyst day, highlighting leadership strategy, client case studies, manager-level perspectives that demonstrate how the firm’s culture, values and strategic priorities translate into real client impact across Australia and New Zealand.
A scaled managed services practice trained in spotting consulting opportunities and armed with AI-enabled solutions will unquestionably win some management consulting market share. More significantly, from TBR’s objective view, is whether the Big Four firms can manage their staffing, brand promise and technology alliances to take advantage of the managed services practices they’ve already built and use those opportunities to return to robust management consulting growth. Maybe, but probably not all four. The next two years will be telling, and TBR expects the existing differences between the Big Four will become even more pronounced.
On Jan. 22, 2026, Fujitsu Americas hosted more than a dozen industry analysts in Toronto for a day of briefings on the company’s progress, specifically in the Americas. Speakers included Asif Poonja, EVP, corporate executive officer & CEO, Americas Region; John Slaytor, VP, head of Strategy & Uvance; Durga Kota, CTO, head of Data x […]
After a period of relative softness, consulting revenues are expected to rebound to high-single- or low-double-digit growth as pervasive uncertainty pushes enterprises to seek external guidance. Demand will be particularly strong around risk mitigation, strategic planning and AI adoption, positioning forward-deployed engineers, supply chain management and people advisory services as leading revenue drivers in 2026.
TBR Insights Live session: TBR’s ecosystem intelligence experts discuss how AI-driven sales and marketing will reshape ecosystems, how AI alliances will impact operational technology and what will challenge the scaling of sovereign AI.