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An Introduction to Management Consultancy

Marc Baaij Erasmus University Rotterdam

Paperback 31-12-2013 ISBN: 9781446256138 £39.99

Hardcover 31-12-2013 ISBN: 9781446256121 £120.00

448 Pages

Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to
have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you
understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. This text
provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for
consultancy firms.
The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'why' at macro
and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples
and extra web materials for study. www.sagepub.co.uk/baaij
As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and
skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by
the world's top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey &Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain
&Company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
PART ONE: Introduction to management consultancy
Chapter 1: Defining management consultancy
Chapter 2: Origin and development of management consultancy
Chapter 3: The impact of management consultancy
PART TWO: The management consultancy industry
Chapter 4: Overview of the management consultancy industry landscape
Chapter 5: Competitive forces in the management consultancy industry
Chapter 6: Macro-trends and the management consultancy
PART THREE: The management consultancy firm
Chapter 7: The value chain of the management consultancy firm
Chapter 8: Managing the consultancy firm
Chapter 9: People and careers in management consultancy
PART FOUR: The management consultancy project
Chapter 10: Clients and other stakeholders
Chapter 11: Project management
Chapter 12: Structured problem analysis

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Chapter 12: Structured problem analysis

Chapter 13: Structured solution development
Chapter 14: Structured communications
Chapter 15: Structured implementation design and transformation
management

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