Arthur D. Little successfully completed its Management Buy-Out (MBO) with Altran Technologies on 30th December, 2011. In its 125th anniversary year, the world’s first management consulting firm has once again become a Global Private Partnership, with 100% of the ownership of the company now held by its Partners. The MBO deal involves all of its offices worldwide and includes the prestigious Arthur D. Little brand.

Since the 2 November announcement by Altran, that it had entered into an exclusive negotiation of an MBO led sale of Arthur D. Little to its Partners, the firm has been actively and successfully preparing its new independent Global Private Partnership. The financial commitment required from the Partners has been oversubscribed and Altran Technologies will be providing vendor financing to support the company’s development in the coming months and years.

The firm will be led by a newly elected global CEO, Ignacio Garcia Alves, leader of the MBO team that successfully managed the acquisition of Arthur D. Little by its Partners.

“I am honored by the trust and confidence of the Partners and am very excited by the prospect of leading this firm into the next stage of its rich history. Our objective with the MBO is twofold: 1) Taking the firm’s destiny and governance back in the hands of the Partners; 2) Accelerating growth by attracting key talents or aggregating smaller firms in targeted industries, functions and countries” declared the new Global CEO.

The positioning of Arthur D. Little will be centred on its historical core of Innovation, offering its unparalleled and unique value proposition of linking Strategy, Innovation, and Technology. In the current global economy, this value proposition is the only way companies and countries can improve their sustained competitiveness. This is true in Europe and the USA where new growth platforms are desperately needed as well as in fast growing economies, such as BRIC countries, that seek to catch-up and move into innovative, added-value products and services.

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Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little (ADL), currently marking its 125th anniversary, has just completed a major revamp of its website to better display the variety of content and depth of intellectual capital the firm holds around the future of innovation management.

“As part of our broader strategic approach to communications, this positions us well for the new era in which engagement and interaction with various stakeholders becomes ever more important,” said Marion Sommerwerck, Global Director of Marketing and Communications, Arthur D. Little. “We’ve consciously moved away from the notion of a website as a company brochure to showcase the full range of our expertise as we have seen a major shift in target groups and the way they need to be approached in the digital world that we cater to.”

Modelled on the classic news portals, the site’s layout has been explicitly designed to communicate to visitors which sections are most relevant for their needs. The main concept of the site is to provide an info-portal through which visitors can access the full range of Arthur D. Little’s content across a number of devices and channels.

The new-look website acts as a social media platform for Arthur D. Little and is part of the wider communication strategy the company has decided to follow; giving users easy access to the Arthur D. Little Twitter and Facebook pages.

The site now also features an enhanced HR-section allowing potential employees to find out about the firm, its work culture and career opportunities. Marie Jerusalem, Global Director Human Resources says: “Applicants today take a careful look at the company and its website prior to applying and the new site covers everything someone interested in joining us needs to know.”

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