Strategic planning

The thing about a double, whether an espresso or a recession, is that it implies that the second experience is the same as the first – and that’s a mistake.

Today sees the launch of our short report, Planning for Growth in an Uncertain Market, which looks at the main five options consulting firms have to grow their businesses and at which segments of the industry are likely to gain or lose ground in 2012.

I wrote at the end of last week about how Dutch consulting firms are in the forefront of pioneering new consulting organisational models and that we expect to see firms in other countries follow suit. Although conventional thinking about how consulting firms are structured has focused on the continuum from generalist to specialist, a more complex picture is emerging in which mode of delivery matters as much as skills base.