Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd and a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, has acquired Celerant Consulting, a worldwide leader in business operations consulting. Among Celerant’s mining successes is a Mobile Maintenance Excellence Initiative launched in partnership with Caterpillar and Finning for the Caterpillar haul trucks used by Shell Albian Sands, one of the largest of Canada’s oil sands miners.
This latest acquisition will further enable Hitachi Consulting to serve its clients throughout an entire business transformation life cycle, while continuing to focus on delivering successful, sustainable change for its clients.
Additionally, this acquisition will expand Hitachi Consulting’s European, North American and South American presence. Celerant is a leading global business operations consultancy, with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, and a global client base that spans over 57 countries.
By adding Celerant’s vast expertise across the chemical, consumer, energy, industrial, life sciences, metals and mining sectors to its own unique skill set, this latest acquisition will provide Hitachi Consulting with a deeper level of industry-specific and associated process expertise. As a result, Hitachi Consulting will be able to offer robust consulting capabilities in new and existing target industries.
Mr Shinjiro Iwata executive Officer and CEO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company of Hitachi, Ltd said that “We are very pleased to have Celerant Consulting as a part of the Hitachi Group. As Hitachi’s largest in house company, Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Systems Company is targeting to grow revenue from the consulting business to JPY 130 billion by fiscal 2015. Under Hitachi’s Social Innovation business initiative and global growth strategies, we expect sales of JPY 800 billion from overseas markets by fiscal 2015; 35% of consolidated ITSC revenues. We believe the acquisition of Celerant Consulting is key to accelerating achievement of these KPIs, and provides Hitachi with the ability to offer our customers deeper knowledge and expertise in Social Infrastructure fields including energy, mining, and various industrial sectors.”
Mr Phil Parr CEO of Hitachi Consulting said that “Hitachi Consulting is committed to pursuing acquisitions that enable us to deliver a complete range of strategy, implementation, and technology services for our clients. Celerant already has a proven track record for designing and implementing value-based operational strategies for Fortune 500 companies on a global scale and will therefore enable us to enhance the services that we can offer in this area.”
Mr Parr said that “As such, we are confident that this acquisition will enable us to deliver measureable, high value results, as well as sustainable benefits that will generate a strong return on investment for our clients. By leveraging the power of Celerant’s unique capabilities, Hitachi Consulting is well positioned to assist business leaders to prepare for strategic transformations, to complete successful organizational change programs, and to deliver significant benefits to their bottom line as a result.”