Kenny & Company

What Kenny & Company does

Kenny & Company (legal entity Michael S. Kenny & Company LLC) is an independent, privately-held management consulting firm headquartered at 3000 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, with a second office in Portland, Oregon. Founded by partners drawn from Accenture, Deloitte Consulting and EDS, the firm delivers Strategy, Operations and Technology consulting to a client base spanning Fortune 1000 enterprises to early-stage startups across five verticals: High-Tech, Financial Services, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, and Government and Community. Service delivery is explicitly partner-led: the firm publishes that partners personally commit to and lead every engagement, staffed by professionals with an average of over 20 years of consulting experience, and backs each engagement with a written client-satisfaction guarantee.

The firm's product surface is a catalog of 15 consulting offerings organized into three practice areas. The Strategy practice covers Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Portfolio Analysis/Selection/Management and Business Analysis. The Operations practice covers Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, PMO establishment, Business Process Optimization and Professional Services Operations consulting. The Technology practice covers Software Selection (anchored by a proprietary 'RFP 3.0' framework), IT Program/Project Management, IT Business Requirements Gathering and Agile Transformation (including SAFe-certified coaches). Kenny & Company does not sell a software product or platform; revenue is generated entirely through professional services fees, with pricing structured per engagement rather than via published rate cards. Documented proprietary assets include the RFP 3.0 software-evaluation framework, a structured Business Analysis methodology spanning problem definition through requirements gathering, and a recurring 'Points of View' thought-leadership catalog (including 'Seven Insights' publications on digital transformation, HR digitization, portfolio management and agile).

Commercially, the firm operates a content-driven, sales-led go-to-market: partners source engagements through direct outreach, referrals, case studies, industry events and thought-leadership content distributed via LinkedIn, Twitter and an email newsletter, supported by philanthropy and community engagement for brand presence. The operating footprint is concentrated on the U.S. West Coast (San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle), with no international offices disclosed. The executive team is led by Managing Partner and CEO Michael S. Kenny (25+ years consulting experience, former Accenture Partner) and Partner and COO William L. Yen (20+ years experience, former U.S. Army officer). The firm has been recognized as one of the '10 Most Promising Project Management Consulting Firms' and discloses no external institutional investment, parent company, M&A activity, or patents; ownership is concentrated among the founding partners.

Name

Kenny & Company

Legal name

Michael S. Kenny & Company LLC

Website

https://michaelskenny.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kenny & Company is an independent, partner-led management consulting firm (Palo Alto, founded by alumni of Accenture, Deloitte and EDS) delivering Strategy, Operations and Technology consulting across 15 service lines to Fortune 1000-to-startup clients in High-Tech, Financial Services, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare and Government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Mateo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Services: Kenny & Company generates revenue through professional services fees charged for consulting engagements. Services span Strategy, Operations, and Technology consulting delivered through partner-led teams with an average of over 20 years of professional services experience.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Kenny & Company is a boutique management consulting firm providing Strategy, Operations, and Technology consulting services to clients ranging from Fortune 1000 enterprises to startups. The firm delivers 15 distinct service offerings — including Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Portfolio Analysis, Business Analysis, Portfolio/Program/Project Management, PMO establishment, Business Process Optimization, Professional Services Operations, Software Selection, IT Program/Project Management, IT Requirements Gathering & Analysis, and Agile Transformation — through partner-led teams that work side-by-side with clients to solve complex business problems.

Product overview

Kenny & Company is a management consulting firm offering Strategy, Operations, and Technology consulting services. The firm provides a comprehensive portfolio of 15 distinct service offerings organized across three practice areas: Strategy (Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Portfolio Analysis Selection and Management, Business Analysis), Operations (Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, PMO, Business Process Optimization, Professional Services Operations), and Technology (Software Selection, IT Program Management, IT Project Management, IT Business Requirements Gathering & Analysis, Agile Transformation). These consulting services are delivered by experienced professionals who work side-by-side with clients to solve complex business problems. The firm does not offer a software product but rather provides expert consulting expertise to help organizations with strategic planning, operational improvement, and technology implementation initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Business Strategy Consulting service helping clients define and execute strategic initiatives that drive sustainable growth and profitability, including market expansion, competitive differentiation, business case development, and new product launches.
• IT Strategy Consulting service helping clients develop long-term and immediate IT plans aligned with organizational mission, vision, and goals, including cloud computing strategy services.
• Portfolio Analysis, Selection and Management Consulting service helping organizations assess cost, scope, schedule, effort, risk, and resource implications of program and project portfolios for selection, prioritization, and ongoing management.
• Business Analysis Consulting service encompassing problem definition, market and industry analysis, product viability analysis, business process analysis, reengineering, requirements gathering, and data analysis.
• Portfolio Management Consulting service helping clients create, manage, and optimize their application, infrastructure, and project portfolios with frameworks, processes, tools, and metrics.
• Program Management Consulting service managing programs across portfolios with focus on constituent projects, scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, risks, and financial implications.
• Project Management Consulting service executing organizational initiatives on-time and on-budget using a transparent and metrics-driven approach, supporting both traditional and Agile methodologies.
• Program/Project Management Office (PMO) Consulting service establishing and leading client PMOs with standards, guidelines, benchmarks, processes, tools, metrics, and leadership.
• Business Process Optimization Consulting service developing operating, efficient, and measurable business processes using a business-driven process approach centered on defined process levels, systems, and metrics.
• Professional Services Operations Consulting service working directly with Professional Services Organizations (PSOs) to define strategy, lead programs, and transform delivery approaches.
• Software Selection Consulting service helping clients select best-fit software including criteria development, RFI/RFP creation, vendor response management, cost/benefit analysis, and final selection (RFP 3.0 framework).
• IT Program Management IT-focused program management with emphasis on system requirements, architecture, design, development, systems testing, and implementation following an IT Systems Development Lifecycle approach.
• IT Project Management IT-focused project management with emphasis on system requirements, architecture, design, development, systems testing, and implementation using traditional or agile approaches.
• IT Business Requirements Gathering & Analysis Consulting service gathering, defining, and structuring IT business requirements ensuring they are actionable, measurable, testable, and traceable to business needs.
• Agile Transformation Consulting service transforming organizations adopting agile approaches, from individual team level through enterprise-level scaling, including SAFe framework implementation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully delivered $150M+ multi-year supply chain transformation program
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Point B: Point B is a boutique consultancy providing strategy, operations, and technology execution across industries; its scale and partner-led delivery approach are highly comparable to Kenny & Company.
• Pariveda Solutions: Pariveda is a US-based consulting firm delivering IT strategy, business analysis, and program/project management — a directly comparable boutique technology and operations consultancy.
• Slalom: Slalom is a US-focused boutique consulting firm delivering strategy, operations, and technology consulting across multiple verticals with a localized delivery model — directly comparable to Kenny & Company's boutique, partner-led, multi-vertical strategy/ops/tech stance.
• North Highland: North Highland is a global management and transformation consulting firm operating with a partner-led, boutique-style culture across strategy, operations, and technology — closely matching Kenny & Company's model and client profile.
• West Monroe: West Monroe is a US boutique consultancy combining management consulting, technology, and industry-specific deep expertise; similar in scale and profile to Kenny & Company, with comparable cross-functional offering.

Broad incumbents

• Boston Consulting Group (BCG): BCG is a global strategy consulting incumbent offering Business Strategy, Technology/Digital, and Operations work — comparable as a far larger competitor in the same strategic-advisory category.
• Bain & Company: Bain is a global top-tier strategy consulting firm whose Business Strategy and IT Strategy practices overlap with Kenny & Company's Strategy offering; comparable as a much larger incumbent in the same engagement space.
• Accenture: Accenture is a global systems integration and management consulting giant delivering strategy, IT, and large-scale transformation services — the same large-firm incumbent that the founders of Kenny & Company previously built their careers at.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey is the largest global pure-play strategy consulting firm with practices spanning business strategy, operations, and digital transformation — directly competing for the same senior-executive advisory mandates.
• Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte Consulting is a global full-service consultancy offering strategy, operations, technology, and human capital consulting — overlapping heavily with Kenny & Company's service portfolio across all five target verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kenny-&-company

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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