An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc G Baaij

An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc G Baaij

The text is built around learning objectives to help students tounderstand 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.

′This book provides a crystal clear, strategic and up to date view of consulting that combines research and practiceIt 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

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.

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ISBN 13	9781446256138
ISBN 10	1446256138
Title	An Introduction to Management Consultancy
Author	Marc G Baaij
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2013-12-26
Number of pages	600
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