International Guide to Management Consultancy
A handbook for corporate purchasers of management consultancy services, International Guide to Management Consultancy provides a description of the profession worldwide and advice on how to choose and use its services effectively.
Now in its second edition, this unique and authoritative guide provides a description of the management consultancy profession worldwide, together with advice on how to choose and use its services effectively. With contributions from leading practitioners, it will be essential reading for all purchasers of management consultancy services.
- Part One identifies the parameters and definitions of management consultancy. It presents overviews of the industry's origins and evolution, the present status of the leading multinational management consultancies and some of the global forces shaping the development of management consultancy.
- Part Two is devoted to ethics and best practice in management consultancy from a number of perspectives. Central to these discussions is the international development of the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) qualification.
- Part Three scrutinises the life of the client-consultant relationship, focusing on what clients can do to make the consultant's role effective and their working relationship productive.
- Part Four comprises snapshots by leading practitioners of thirteen key consultancy fields, ranging from strategy and marketing through change management and process re-engineering to the newer disciplines of information and knowledge management, m-commerce, ERP and e-business.
- Part Five consists of a general account of consulting in developing countries, followed by profiles of 26 country-by-country management consultancy markets.
Primarily addressing users and potential clients and endorsed by ICMCI, FEACO and Zen Noh Ren, the Guide will also be of interest to professional consultants themselves, to students of consultancy in the burgeoning postgraduate programmes around the world and to all practitioners of consulting skills and competencies.
BOOK DETAILS :Hardback, 560 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 142 MM Language English.
Part One The Evolution and Practice of Management Consultancy Globally
1.1 The scope of management consultancy in its international practice: parameters and definitions
1.2 The evolution of management consultancy: its origins and global development
1.3 Multinational management consultancies; world market leaders
1.4 The impact of the IT revolution and e-commerce on management consultancy
1.5 Sustainability and management consultancy
1.6 Delphi Study and beyond: scenarios for the consulting market in 2010
Part Two Ethics and Best Practice
2.1 Competition and objectivity: management consultancy, auditing and outsourcing
2.2 Professionalism through best practice; universal and local standards
2.3 Ethical norms and guidelines
2.4 Higher Education opportunities in management consultancy
2.5 Is there a case for regulating management consultants?
2.6 The role of a national institute in the development of the profession of management consultancy
2.7 Corporate governance - structure, processes and functions
2.8 Pricing for profit
Part Three A Client’s Guide to Management Consultancy
3.1 The client-consultant relationship; setting the guidelines
3.2 Selecting and appointing a management consultancy
3.3 How to get value from a management consultant
3.4 Managing consultancy projects in progress
3.5 Phases of the client-consultant relationship
3.6 Evaluating advice and recommendations
3.7 Appreciative inquiry: accelerating positive change
3.8 The consultant’s role in managing change
3.9 Handing over and moving on
Part Four Key Consultancy Activities
4.1 Strategic consultancy and business development
4.2 Marketing
4.3 Organisational change: the challenges and the opportunities
4.4 Organisation/culture change in post-merger integration
4.5 Leadership in process-re-engineering
4.6 Coaching in management development
4.7 Supporting employees across the world
4.8 Communications
4.9 Customer relations
4.10 Information and knowledge management
4.11 Systems Integration
4.12 m-commerce: the next wave of management consulting
4.13 ERP to e-business - the opportunities
Part Five Consulting Internationally
5.1 Consulting in developing economies and third world countries
5.2 Management Consultancy in the Oil and Gas Industry
5.3 Strategic Collaboration
5.4 Selected international management consultancy market profiles
Barry Curnow is vice chairman of the ICMCI, past president of the British IMC and principal of Maresfield Curnow. He is the joint author of three books and numerous articles and teaches consulting at City University Business School.
Jonathan Reuvid graduated in PPE from Oxford University and is an experienced international business development manager, having worked in many of the EU member countries in senior line and staff management positions.
Alongside management consultancy he has pursued a parallel career in publishing as a writer and editor of international business books.
He is Managing Director of the Management Consultancy Business School which, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, offers the first European Master of Science degree in Management Consultancy.