providing operational and strategic advice to companies in the mining, oil, gas, metals, chemicals, and agricultural industries; providing technical advice to companies in iterative continuous-process industries; providing advice regarding life-cycle management for projects, equipment, and resources; providing business management consulting services; advising businesses in strategic management and development of overall corporate strategy and business initiatives; corporate management consulting services to assist executives in business decision making; advising businesses through the use of consulting tools and techniques that enable strategic business decision making; providing business project management consulting services, namely, predicting project outcomes and modifying project implementation to increase likelihood of success in business transformation projects; providing information in the field of business management; providing information in the field of strategic management and development of overall corporate strategy and business initiatives