Management Consultancy Insights and Real Consultancy Projects

Introduction

Section A: Academic Discourse

1. The Management Consultant: The Hermes of Our Time

Ian Fouweather

2. The Challenges and Opportunities of Stylized Facts for Management Consulting Modeling and Theory Development

Renae Agrey and Henry Xu

3. Create More Value for All: A Human Dignity Oriented Approach to Consultancy

P. Matthijs Bal and Simon B. de Jong

4. The Role of Client Knowledge in Consulting Projects: Explorative, Exploitative and Ambidextrous Approaches

Jason Cordier, Alejandra Marin and Hilmy Cader

5. To Be or Not to Be an Internal Consultant

Julie Hodges

6. Consulting in the Public Sector

Rod Scott and Olga Matthias

7. Applying Research Methods in Strategy Consulting

Graham Manville and Chand Chudasama

8. Consultancy in Management Education

Olga Matthias and Julian Campbell

Section B: Practical Implementation Using Case Study

9. Developing Capacity for Farm Consultancy in New Zealand

Lorraine Warren and Peter Allen

10. A Collaboration for Better Healthcare

Andrew Hine and Karen Lynas

11. An Organisational Transistion: A Case of Preparation, Persistence and Person Centredness

Elissa Farrow

12. Cross-Cultural Management Consulting: From Cultural Awareness to Global Competence

Richard D. Lewis, Iouri P. Bairatchnyi and Caroline Lewis

13. Talent Management within XYZ Global Investment Bank

Oliver Rodway and Graham Manville

14. Making Lemonade from Lemons: The Role of Client-Consultant Knowledge as the Limoneira Company Goes Global

Jason Cordier and Tahir Hameed

15. Public Sector Management Consulting in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Kariuki

16. Indigeneity and Management Consulting in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Jason Paul Mika

17. Consultants: The Custodians of Best Practices

Brett Knowles and Graham Manville

Conclusion

Biography

Dr Graham Manville CMC, MBA, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management, the Director of Employability and Enterprise for Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has won several national and international awards in the field of research and consulting. In addition, he is a Director of Longview Consulting Ltd.

Dr Olga Matthias CMC, DBA is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, School of Management, University of Bradford, UK. Previously, she had a long career at PA Consulting Group in the Business Operations and Performance practice.

Julian Campbell MBA is the Programme Director for the Executive MBA at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is also a visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka in Prague. Prior to working in academia, he ran his own consultancy practice specialising in brand management with clients in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

‘A well-timed contribution to the body of knowledge　on　Management Consulting.　　The book includes　contributions　from both　consultants and academics from around the world,　showcasing　challenges　faced by management consultants and, importantly, how they help companies address them by deploying theory-driven yet　practical insights and solutions　that make a difference.　　It's a　very solution-driven text that sheds important light on the value consulting that adds to the process of management.　It will be of interest to anyone wanting to find out more　about the role of the consulting profession, as well as what it is like to work in.’ — Professor Ian Clarke, Dean of the Business School and Chair in Strategy at the University of Edinburgh.

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