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An overview of news, trends and research in Innovation consulting in the Middle East:

Dubai International Financial Centre given go ahead for massive expansion The Dubai International Financial Centre has been given the green light on an ambitious expansion plan which will see the region’s leading financial hub triple in size.
15 January 2019
Middle East companies slow to act on AI despite high expectations Businesses in the Middle East have been slow to properly embrace AI according to BCG, despite having high expectations for the technology.
02 January 2019
Accenture: Middle East companies risk losing $400 billion to disruption More than half of the Middle East’s leading executives expect their industries to be disrupted in the next three years according to a survey form Accenture, with over $400 billion of enterprise value
24 December 2018
European platform B-Hive to help develop fintech ecosystem in Qatar In the latest in recent series of regional fintech agreements, the Qatar Financial Centre has signed a deal with European collaborative platform B-Hive to help develop the fintech innovation ecosyste
26 November 2018
Four firms from the Middle East make KPMG's top 100 fintech list Firms from four Middle Eastern nations have made this year’s KMPG Fintech 100 list, with Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Israel represented among the world’s top established and emerging financial techn
21 November 2018
Five reasons why Israel has a booming start-up and R&D landscape Israel is home to booming start-up and scale-up community.
15 November 2018
Roland Berger to host Italian-Middle Eastern innovation event in Dubai Global management consultancy Roland Berger will host an event this week in Dubai to promote Middle Eastern and Italian business opportunities.
06 November 2018
Fidor and ADIB win Efma-Accenture award for innovative banking platform The German online bank Fidor has been awarded gold at the Efma Accenture Awards for its work with the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank to establish a Shariah compliant community banking platform for the region
01 November 2018
PwC and Commercial Bank of Dubai sign digital innovation deal The Middle East branch of PwC has signed an agreement with the Commercial Bank of Dubai to foster greater digital innovation at the financial services and banking provider.
27 September 2018
KPMG and ADGM fintech innovation challenge finalists to showcase in a fortnight The second edition of the FinTech Abu Dhabi Innovation Challenge hosted by KPMG and the Abu Dhabi Global Market will reach its culmination in under a fortnight, with start-up contenders this year pai
04 September 2018
Oliver Wyman proposes Dubai innovation hub to aid regional financial inclusion The global management consulting firm Oliver Wyamn has forwarded the UAE as the ideal centre for an innovation hub focused on enhancing regional financial inclusion.
31 July 2018
Agility to innovate the key for overcoming blindside risks, says BDO Professional services firm BDO has highlighted the need for business agility in order to innovate and counter blindside risks in its latest annual global risk landscape report, with organisations in
18 June 2018
BCG partners with the WFP on refugee food security innovations in Jordan The UN’s World Food Programme has welcomed a review team from The Boston Consulting Group to its Jordan office according to the WFP’s latest country brief, with BCG a long-term partner and supporter
07 June 2018
Consulting 4.0 proponents Sia Partners host AI conference in Dubai Global management firm Sia Partners has hosted a conference on Artificial Intelligence in the UAE with 60 executives and specialists in attendance, including delegates and speakers from Etisalat’s Sm
23 May 2018
Roland Berger to host winners of Saudi Arabian start-up competition Global consulting firm Roland Berger and a panel of esteemed judges have selected the winning entries of a start-up competition held in Saudi Arabia, with the victors set to tour the firm’s home-base
29 March 2018
Drake Star CEO forecasts tech trends at Innovation event in Dubai The Co-CEO of M&A investment specialists Drake Star Partners has given a keynote address on the tech trends that will shape the investment and M&A landscape at the Arab Innovation conference in Dubai
22 March 2018
Accenture and SAP roll out next-generation technology for Dubai Expo Dubai Expo 2020 official partner Accenture has teamed up with SAP to deliver a next-generation digital platform for the widely anticipated global event, with the tech’s data-driven insights to enhanc
16 March 2018
Spanish energy company Iberdrola launches innovation centre in Qatar Spanish multinational power company Iberdrola has launched a new innovation centre in Qatar to collaborate and consult on the digitisation of energy systems, with a focus on smart grids, energy effic
15 March 2018
Nearly half of all Middle East jobs could be automated, says McKinsey Nearly half of all existing jobs in the Middle East could be automated today according to global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company.
19 February 2018
Optimistic CEOs in the UAE plan to innovate to overcome disruption CEO’s in the United Arab Emirates are wholly united in their optimism for growth over the next three years, and are ready to embrace the expected coming technological disruptions as an opportunity fo
12 February 2018
Innovation is changing the face of the oil and gas industry Disruptive innovation is changing the face of the oil and gas industry at an unprecedented pace and scale, write Eduard Gracia and Sean Wheeler, respectively Principal and Partner at A.T.
02 January 2018
Middle East and UAE businesses should embrace artificial intelligence Gerard Gallagher, Head of Advisory at EY for the Middle East, as well as Africa and India, explains why businesses in the Middle East and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cannot afford to ignore di
19 December 2017

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