An Introduction to Management Consultancy
- Marc Baaij - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
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
Supplements
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.
It was a little general in tone, needed more academic references
A good presentation of many of the key essentials for study of the subject. Would supplement the core text.
I found the framework and examples used in this book very useful and illustrative of the ideas I wanted to discuss with the students. The book is now in our 'Recommended reading' list.
Good relevant text - looking forward to using in my class.
This is an excellent book for those students who aspire to work in the management consultancy area. It prepares students to think about whether it is a career for them and provides excellent groundwork for help forming and preparing them intellectually for these roles.
It does not suit our course as it is lacking in consultant based methodologies/tools. Otherwise, an excellent and well recommended book.
The book provides the basics for students, but not the required academic underlying theories, nor the new developments with respect to the field of management consulting. I discussed this with the author.
