Tuesday 17th Oct, 2017
By Fiona Czerniawska.
At the last count, it’s been estimated that around 900 gorillas live in the lush, dense forests of Rwanda. The gorillas are protected, and rightly so, but our research suggests that management consultants may be even rarer...
Tuesday 15th Aug, 2017
By Fiona Czerniawska.
Organisations have always used consultants for two main reasons: to access world-class expertise and to give them organisational flexibility (teams brought in at short-notice to accelerate the delivery of a project, extra pairs of hands when the business-as-usual work threatens to overwhelm their in-house resources, etc.). Conventionally, these two needs have been mutually exclusive: you want a specialist or a generalist. Increasingly, though, clients want both.
Tuesday 11th Jul, 2017
By Alastair Cox.
Let’s get something straight: If a consulting firm dedicates a partner to a specific area, it’s an area with plenty of opportunities. Therefore—flipping this—if a consulting firm doesn’t dedicate a partner to a specific area, it’s surely an area not worthy of investment and without many opportunities, right?
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