Management Consulting in Practice by Fiona Czerniawska

Management Consulting in Practice by Fiona Czerniawska

This authoritative new book explores the relationship between top management consultant teams and their clients. It presents through a series of case studies, from both the private and public sectors, best-practice consulting at the sharp end of contemporary management across all management disciplines. The case studies are drawn from the MCA Awards, which recognise Best Practice in all the categories of management. Firms present qualifying client engagements for evaluation by a distinguished panel drawn from industry and academia. Each case study explores a unique business situation and the way it was tackled by the team, and also examines how those teams responded to challenges during their projects and the unexpected lessons they learned. The case studies are embedded within an explanatory framework that draws out common themes, relates the case studies to generic models, and discusses how their approaches can be applied in other businesses. Case study clients include the International Olympic Committee, Sun Microsystems, Apache Corporation, Aon, Tesco, BT Business, MoD, Westminster City Council, BAE Systems, GCHQ, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Home Office, Transport for London, and NHS Trusts.

"No element of modern management goes uncoveredA clear demonstration of the tangible and intangible benefits that can result from a client-consultant relationship." MBA Business "Czerniawska [is] one of the world's leading commentators on the consulting industry." Consulting to Management "Full of useful insights." Long Range Planning "Collects case studies from the most recent Management Consultancies Association's Awards for Best Management Practice winners in order to explore how these firms and their clients succeeded in ensuring high-quality consulting." Journal of Economic Literature

Fiona Czerniawska is one of the world's leading commentators on the consulting industry. She is the Director of the UK Management Consultancies Association's Think Tank and the founder and managing director of Arkimeda, a firm that specialises in researching and consulting on strategic issues. She is also a Programme Director at London Business School's Centre for Management Development. Paul May is a business technology author, consultant, systems architect and business development executive. Paul formed the independent e-commerce consulting practice Verista in 1998. He has since undertaken strategy and implementation projects with well-known global companies such as BP Amoco and Siemens, and with business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce startups in the UK and USA.

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ISBN 13	9780749442811
ISBN 10	0749442816
Title	Management Consulting in Practice
Author	Fiona Czerniawska
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Kogan Page Ltd
Year published	2004-08-27
Number of pages	304
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