Product Description
This book provides a thorough examination of a variety of specialties within the broad range of management consulting. A book of such scope and depth could only be written by a large number of experts, each from one of the many specialties related to management consulting. Together, all 27 contributors take the reader through an industry that is currently undergoing significant change. While covering all the major practice areas of consulting, the book also offers n… More >>
Management Consulting Today and Tomorrow: Perspectives and Advice from 27 Leading World Experts
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#1 by Larry Greiner on March 26, 2010 - 11:23 pm
Since we first published these expert opinions in 2005, many things have impacted consulting as an industry, most of them seem only temporary to us, except the last one mentioned below on the 24/7 world that we highlighted in the original. In response to the financial crisis, many firms have cut back on hiring and frozen salaries to reduce costs and responded to similar opportunities with clients. Many firms have moved away from strategy issues to tactical and operational projects like outsourcing, investment banking and operational efficiency. The 24/7 world has speeded up where clients expect fast action, and aren’t interested multi-million dollar studies. While these changes have affected the consulting industry, little has happened, in our opinion, to change the validity of content in the first edition. We asked the author contributors has anything changed about their contribution, and they responded unanamously that their substance had not changed; as one of them said “not in the least.”
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by David F. Palmer on March 27, 2010 - 12:03 am
“This book provides an excellent overview on the status of the consulting industry and the challenges it is now facing.” NOT. It might have been when it was first released but it is not now. It is a verbatim reproduction of the same book by the same authors in 2005 entitled “The Contemporary Consultant: Handbook of Management Consulting”. I thought it was good then. So did my students. But this reproduction makes no mention of the global financial crisis and how it will affect the consulting profession which is the main issue I would have thought that any person interested in this subject would have been most interested in now (in 2009) and going forward.
If you didn’t catch the original you may still find this book of interest but an overview of the contemporary situation this reproduction definitely is not. I would have expected a contemporary re-release to at least have a foreword bringing the subject matter up to date. Better still, a contemporary rewrite updating tables, statistics, etc would be even better.
Lazy authorship.
Rating: 2 / 5