Essential Tools for Management Consulting: Tools, Models and Approaches for Clients and Consultants

by Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn, Malik Salameh (Foreword by)

Overview

This is a must-have resource for all practising or aspiring management consultants. Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn covers four key areas of consulting:

• The profession
• Developing consultancy
• Managing projects
• Delivery

The book also provides a top-ten of consultancy tools, with evaluations of their usefulness, strengths and weaknesses.

Featuring clear, jargon-free explanations and advice, and links and references to further resources for management consultants, this is a book you'll want to refer to cover and over again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470689615
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/15/2010
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Professor Simon A. Burtonshaw-Gunn is a practising management consultant with significant experience in both the public and private sectors covering a range of organizations and industries. He has undertaken assignments in Asia, North Africa, the Middle and Far East, and Eastern Europe. To support this experience he holds two Masters degrees and a PhD in various strategic management topics together with fellowship of four professional bodies. This book follows the popular The Essential Management Toolbox (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Foreword by Dr Malik Salameh ix

About the Author xiii

Introduction xvii

1. The Profession of Management Consultancy 1

2. Developing Management Consultancy 35

3. The Management of Consultancy Projects 63

4. Consultancy Delivery 83

5. Top-ten Consultancy Tools 107

References 135

Websites 139

Addresses 141

Index 143