To augment our own continuous primary research and data gathering
about the consulting industry (US$321.1b in 2014; +7.7% in 2014), technology services
(US$233.4b in 2014; +6.0% in 2014) and other professional services markets (see
#6), DJC uses predominantly data available from the following organizations as sources for its evidence-base*):
- ACE & MCA-
Association of Consulting Engineers & Management Consultancies Association (covering UK)
- ACEC - Association of Consulting and Engineering Companies (covering
Canada)
- AMCF - Association of Management
Consulting Firms (covering US)
- BDU
- Bund Deutscher Unternehmensberater – Association of German Consultancies (covering Germany)
- CNAEC - China National Association of Engineering Consultants (covering China)
- DJIX – DJC Information Exchange (sanitized proprietary db from 10
years of global projects)
- ECFA - Engineering
& Consulting Firms Association (covering Japan)
- FEACO -Federation Europeenne des Associations de Conseils en Organisation / European Federation
of Management Consulting Associations (covering Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus,Czech
Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Prtugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Hong Kong)
- IMC USA - Institute of Management Consultants USA (covering
USA)
- Kennedy Information (covering the consulting market)
- Luenendonk
(covering Germany)
- WGMB -Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fuer Management und Beratung – Scientific
society for management and consulting; Prof. D. Fink (covering Germany)
- Forrester (covering the technology sector)
- Gartner (covering the technology sector)
- TBR - Technology Business Research (covering the technology
sector)
- CIA World Factbook, Federal Reserve,
Heritage Foundation, IMF, UNCTAD, World Bank, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times (covering
macroeconomics)
*) Following the “fair use” rule