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An Introduction to Management Consultancy Marc G. Baaij

An Introduction to Management Consultancy By Marc G. Baaij

An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc G. Baaij

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The text is built around learning objectives to help students to understand the 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'why' at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study.

An Introduction to Management Consultancy Summary

An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc G. Baaij

'I have never seen such a book about management consulting before: this sets a new standard. This book is extremely thorough and addresses all of the relevant topics.' - Sander van 't Noordende, Group Chief Executive Products Operating Group, Accenture

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.

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.

Lecturer's resources

  • Lecturer's guide
  • Teaching notes per chapter
  • Answer guidance to end-of-chapter questions in book
  • Suggested discussion questions
  • Suggested small group assignments
  • Suggested small group field project
  • Lecture slides
  • Option 1: provide all figures of the book on PowerPoint slides
  • Option 2: create complete PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
  • Exercises
  • Exam questions
  • Discussion forum

Student resources

  • Templates for developing logical structures
  • Web resources
  • Consultancy publications
  • Consultancy web site, career page
  • Job application preparation services
  • Consultancy institutions

An Introduction to Management Consultancy Reviews

'This book provides a crystal clear, strategic and up to date view of consulting that combines research and practice. It will be of equal value to consultants, their clients and anyone studying the industry or management innovation, at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It will be a leader in its field'

-- Professor Andrew Sturdy

'An informative source that should be considered must reading for anyone interested in a thoughtful, easy to follow overview of the management consulting industry, from the normative pull of a true helping profession to the critical depiction of management consultants as little more than masters of rhetoric skilled at organizational sorcery. The volume contains myriad insights into consultancy's micro- and macro-level dynamics, from individual consultants and their roles, responsibilities and expectations, to the competitive realities of consultancies and the knowledge management challenges of our post-industrial age, to the nature and nuances of consulting projects. The book is equally valuable for those interested in entering the consulting industry as well as managers who will be working with consultants.'

-- Anthony F. Buono
In this book, Baaij effectively captures the breadth of the field, from the normative pull of a true helping role to the critical depiction of management consultants as little more than masters of rhetoric skilled at organizational sorcery. The volume contains myriad insights into consultancy's micro- and macro-level dynamics, from individual consultants and their roles, responsibilities and expectations, to the competitive realities of consultancies and the knowledge management challenges of our post-industrial age, to the nature and nuances of consulting projects. The book will be equally valuable for those interested in entering the consulting industry as well as new managers for whom working with consultants is a novel experience. Baaij is to be commended for providing sufficient insight into the dynamics underlying management consulting that readers will come away with a much richer understanding of this complex, ambiguous domain. -- Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University

About Marc G. Baaij

Marc Baaij is an associate professor of strategic management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Previously he worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as manager of research and strategy consultant. Marc specialises in methods and techniques for strategy development and implementation, with a focus on stakeholder management and strategic foresight development. He has written professional books and scientific articles on strategic management, management consultancy, and structured problem solving. Besides teaching bachelor, master, and MBA students, Marc also provides open and in-company training in structured problem-solving and communication for managers, consultants, and other business professionals. He also serves as a soundboard for managers in cases of strategy development and implementation. Marc holds a master's degree in economics and is a PhD in strategic management.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY PHENOMENON Chapter 1: Defining management consultancy Chapter 2: Origin and development of management consultancy Chapter 3: Reasons, risks and results of management consultancy PART TWO: THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY INDUSTRY Chapter 4: Overview of the management consultancy industry landscape Chapter 5: The competitive landscape of the management consultancy industry Chapter 6: Macro-trends and the management consultancy industry PART THREE: THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY FIRM Chapter 7: The value chain of the management consultancy firm Chapter 8: Managing the management consultancy firm Chapter 9: People and careers in management consultancy PART FOUR: THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY PROJECT Chapter 10: Clients and other stakeholders Chapter 11: Management of a consultancy project Chapter 12: Structured problem diagnosis Chapter 13: Structured solution development Chapter 14: Structured communications Chapter 15: Structured implementation

Additional information

GOR007585470
9781446256138
1446256138
An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc G. Baaij
Marc G. Baaij
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
20131210
600
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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