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&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s Wednesday, and today&#39;s consulting news will be beamed out amidst heavy snow in New York City.  Shame it&#39;ll turn to black sludge by morning (the snow, not the consulting news; that cannot be destroyed).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, research consultants at the Hay Group released the results of the firm&#39;s sixth annual Best Companies for Leadership Study.  The results were featured via a Top 20 list that names some of the world&#39;s leading corporations among the honorees.  Chief among them was General Electric, a regular atop the Group&#39;s leadership rankings.  Hay Group, a respected global management consultancy, said that GE &quot;maintained its top-notch reputation for leadership excellence.&quot;   &amp;Agrave; la , only one consulting firm made the Top 20; that lucky winner was Accenture, which repeated last year&#39;s top-10 showing with an eighth place finish.  Rick Lash, Hay Group&#39;s head leadership guru, explained the rankings.  &quot;The Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership are at the forefront of a significant shift away from hierarchical organizational operating models,&quot; he said.  An interesting finding from this year&#39;s leadership study: &quot;90% of the Best Companies expect employees to lead, regardless if they have a formal position of authority.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, Point B, a classic strategy/management consultancy based in Portland, Ore., unveiled a pair of organizational changes that aims to both &quot;diversify its client base&quot; and &quot;position itself for accelerated growth.&quot;  In one move, the firm officially welcomed its brand new investment arm&amp;mdash;Point B Capital&amp;mdash;to the organization.  &quot;Point B Capital builds value for both its portfolio companies and Point B&#39;s broader client base by bringing expertise and capital together for mutual business benefit,&quot; the firm said in a press release.  So, basically, they&#39;ll be financing much of their growth and normal operations through a dependent investment/equity unit.  Cool.  Next up is the installation of Mike Pongon, formerly Point B&#39;s COO, as CEO.  Pongon brings 11 years of Point B experience to the job, a role formerly shared by the firm&#39;s founders and co-CEO&#39;s Tim Jenkins and Darran Littlefield.  Pongon is immediately tasked with overseeing harmonious cooperation between the Capital group and the consulting group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, the best of the rest, in classic round-up fashion: HP introduced its new Government Cloud Consulting Services portfolio today in a bid to oust IBM and other competitors from a public sector IT consulting domain of the (very near) future; Campbell Alliance, the family-led healthcare consultancy that was recently purchased by inVentiV Health, has lost its major financier (Baird Capital Partners) as a result of the deal; and TPI, a global IT consulting/outsourcing firm announced today that it has been selected by the government of North Carolina to overhaul the state&#39;s outdated IT infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; Hay Group: Best Companies For Leadership 2011&lt;br&gt; Point B Adds Investment Arm, Transitions Top Leadership&lt;br&gt; HP Expands Cloud Offerings With Government Consulting Services&lt;br&gt; Baird Capital Partners Exits Campbell Alliance&lt;br&gt; TPI Wins Major IT Consulting Job With State of North Carolina&lt;/p&gt;

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