Arthur D. Little
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| legal form | Partnership Partnership company |
| founding | 1886 (1909 as Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL)) |
| Seat | Brussels |
| management | Ignacio Garcia Alvez (Global CEO ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 1000 worldwide (2014) |
| Branch | Business consulting |
| Website | http://www.adlittle.com |
Arthur D. Little ( ADL ) is a management consultancy . It was founded in 1886 by the MIT honorary doctor Arthur Dehon Little in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and is considered the world's first consulting firm. In 1909 it was officially registered as Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL).
Company profile
International breakdown
Arthur D. Little has around 1000 employees worldwide in over 30 offices. The company's headquarters are in Brussels. The company is divided into various regional companies. The regional companies in Germany and Switzerland form the Arthur D. Little Central Europe (CE) unit; with offices in Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. Managing partner of Arthur D. Little GmbH in Germany is Dr. Fabian Dömer. Austria is an independent organization. Managing partners of Arthur D. Little GmbH Austria are Karim Taga and Bela Virag.
organization
Arthur D. Little's consultants are structured in a matrix organization:
- Industry Practices: Aerospace & defense, Automotive, Chemicals, Consumer goods & retail, Financial services, Healthcare & life sciences, Industrial goods & services, Oil & gas, Private equity, Public services, Telecommunications, Internet, Media & Electronics (TIME), Travel & transportation, Utilities & alternative energy
- Functional Practices: Corporate finance, Global carbon advisory service, Information management, Marketing & sales, Operations management, Organization & transformation, Risk, Strategy, Sustainability, Technology & innovation management
Customers
Although the consulting company does not publish any information about the customers for reasons of confidentiality, it is indicated that it regularly works for the world's largest corporations. In Germany, a large number of DAX companies are customers. The main topics are strategy, innovation and transformation.
history
Arthur D. Little was founded in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little in Boston (USA). In 1886 Little and his colleague Roger Griffin founded the "Griffin & Little Chemical Engineers" laboratory, which initially dealt with chemical processes in the paper industry. Griffin died in an explosion in his laboratory in 1893; Little went on alone, later working with professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he had to leave before completing his studies because he could no longer afford the tuition fees.
ADL regards Griffin & Little as its predecessor company and considers itself the oldest management consultancy in the world.
At the beginning of the 1980s Arthur D. Little had risen to become the largest consultancy in the world, but lost this position in the following years after the strategic focus was too much on technical engineering instead of strategy consulting.
Arthur D. Little stands out among the large strategy consulting firms because of his strong entrepreneurial character. In the wake of the Internet boom, Arthur D. Little marketed his own patents and, as a company listed at the time, was severely affected by the burst Internet bubble in 2001. After the resulting financial problems, Arthur D. Little had to file for bankruptcy in the USA in 2002 and open Chapter 11 proceedings . The French Altran network (a network of smaller management consultancies with around 17,000 employees) then supported the buyout of most of the consulting business.
Since January 1st, 2012 Arthur D. Little has been managed as a global partnership under his own entrepreneurial responsibility. The company's CEO is Ignacio Garcia-Alvez.
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the company homepage, accessed on July 14, 2015
- ↑ http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/adlittle/history.html
Web links
- ADL Germany
- ADL Austria
- ADL worldwide
- APA press release "Arthur D. Little continues to expand presence on the Austrian market." (2020)
- Article "Lars Riegel new partner at Arthur D. Little Austria (2020)
- Report on the 2012 spin-off from the French IT group Altran Technologies, which had bought certain parts of Arthur D. Little from the consulting firm's bankruptcy estate [1]
- Article in brand-eins magazine (04/2002) about the rescue of Arthur D. Little (PDF file; 766 kB)