KPMG Strategy Leader Taps AI to Push Global Unit to $2.5 Billion

KPMG, caught in an advisory market squeezed by competition and price constraints, is seizing on artificial intelligence and data science as it looks to double fees from its strategy consulting work by 2027.

As the new head of KPMG’s strategy practice unit—part of the firm’s consulting arm focused on helping clients set their own business acquisition and business development strategies —Javier Rodriguez wants to grow his service line’s fees to $2.5 billion.

Already, the now two-year-old strategy has been paying off, growing the business line by nearly a third this year, Rodriguez said in an interview with Bloomberg Tax.

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