An Introduction to Management Consultancy - Softcover

Baaij, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446256138 ISBN 13: 9781446256138

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013

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‘I have never seen such a book about management consulting before: this sets a new standard. This book is extremely thorough and addresses all of the relevant topics.’ - Sander van ′t Noordende, Group Chief Executive Products Operating Group, Accenture

Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. This text provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms.

The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the ′what′, ′how′, ′when′ and ′why′ at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study.

As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by the world′s top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company.


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Lecturer’s resources

• Lecturer’s guide
• Teaching notes per chapter
• Answer guidance to end-of-chapter questions in book
• Suggested discussion questions
• Suggested small group assignments
• Suggested small group field project
• Lecture slides
• Option 1: provide all figures of the book on PowerPoint slides
• Option 2: create complete PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
• Exercises
• Exam questions
• Discussion forum

Student resources

• Templates for developing logical structures
• Web resources
• Consultancy publications
• Consultancy web site, career page
• Job application preparation services
• Consultancy institutions

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marc Baaij is an associate professor of strategic management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Previously he worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as manager of research and strategy consultant. Marc specialises in methods and techniques for strategy development and implementation, with a focus on stakeholder management and strategic foresight development. He has written professional books and scientific articles on strategic management, management consultancy, and structured problem solving. Besides teaching bachelor, master, and MBA students, Marc also provides open and in-company training in structured problem-solving and communication for managers, consultants, and other business professionals. He also serves as a soundboard for managers in cases of strategy development and implementation. Marc holds a master’s degree in economics and is a PhD in strategic management.

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The text is built around learning objectives to help students to understand the 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'why' at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study.<br/>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1446256138
• ISBN 13: 9781446256138
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 600
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar