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&lt;p&gt;Welcome to this week&#39;s penultimate news round-up.  Now Thursdays are good for something other than midweek drinking!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The World Economic Forum at Davos is in full swing, and prominent consultants are among the Forum&#39;s go-to sources for quality analysis and business insight.  Among those weighing in this time &#39;round were McKinsey&#39;s Dominic Barton, Bain&#39;s Orit Gadiesh (read her thoughts here), and Accenture&#39;s Mark Foster.  Foster, Accenture&#39;s management consulting head, has made a real meal of it, even commandeering a &lt;em&gt;Forbes&lt;/em&gt; blog to give his audience a daily play-by-play about the goings-on in Switzerland.  Today, Foster discussed the candid keynote address delivered by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, saying &quot;I was struck by his openness about the problems that Russian society is facing as well as his optimism around progress against corruption and enforcing the rule of law.&quot;  Davos sounds pretty cool, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new report from Booz &amp;amp; Company should help dispel fears that employer-based health insurance will be longer under the new healthcare regulations.  The report, accurately titled &quot;The Future of Health Insurance: Demise of Employer-Sponsored Coverage Greatly Exaggerated,&quot; suggested just that; while Booz consultants admit that it will be more difficult for employers to provide coverage, all is not lost.  &quot;Our analyses indicate that employers, though concerned about rising premiums, are unlikely to abandon employer-based health plans and force workers to find coverage on exchanges,&quot; the report says.  &quot;Some small employers may do so, but the majority will continue to offer coverage for a variety of reasons ranging from a sense of moral respon&amp;not;sibility to the need to attract and retain talent.&quot;  Moral responsibility&amp;hellip;woof.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Telecom giant AT&amp;amp;T announced today that it would begin offering consultative services to companies regarding the transition to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).  Here&#39;s the idea: today all we&#39;ve got is the measly IPv4, which is buckling under the weight of billions of IP addresses and an ever-growing crowd of web users.  Soon we&#39;ll all be switching to IPv6 (sorry, version 5) to reduce the strain, and businesses that aren&#39;t on the new platform will suffer.  Somehow.  Anyway, it&#39;s important enough that AT&amp;amp;T upgraded all of its businesses to the new platform recently, and the US federal government contracted them to do the same.  Now, they&#39;re offering their services to the business world, and calling it consulting.  Fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; Davos Notebook: Mark Foster of Accenture (Forbes)&lt;br&gt; NYT: Prospects for Private Health Insurance&lt;br&gt; AT&amp;amp;T Advocates IPv6 Preparation for Business&lt;/p&gt;

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