International guide to management consultancy

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 consultants 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 ail practitioners of consulting skills and competencies.

Contents

• Part one The evolution and practice of management consultancy globally
• Part two Ethics and Best Practice
• Part three A client's guide to management consultancy
• Part Four Key consultancy activities
• Part Five Consulting internationally