Management Consulting Projects

Management Consulting Projects
Author: Ronald Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000426629

This textbook provides students with an easy to use, proven roadmap for completing a successful consulting project from start to finish. Primarily designed for students who work as outside consultants on solving client problems and investigating potential opportunities, the textbook’s structure first explains the consulting process to students and then depicts it in a chronological flow, using real-life examples to demonstrate practical application. Each section builds upon the previous one, focusing on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for employability. Now in its sixth edition, this text has been fully revised to bring it up to date with the current business context and global environment, including: A major expansion of the tools and resources needed for students to conduct research on a client’s situation. A new final chapter that ties the overarching consulting process together and focuses on how the student should use this experience for their own professional development. New examples of award-winning projects to provide practical guidance. Fresh material on the use of new technologies in the consulting process, ethics and data management, and remote working. This well-renowned model promotes a conceptual understanding of the consulting process and the interactions between and among students, the team, the client, and the instructor. Management Consulting Projects should be essential reading for experiential Business Consulting modules, Small Business Management, and Strategic Management at postgraduate and MBA level.

The Experiential Student Team Consulting Process

The Experiential Student Team Consulting Process
Author: Ronald G. Cook
Publisher: Custom Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781337032841

This book provides a proven model for the experiential student team consulting process. It uses a pedagogically sound problem-based learning approach with clear examples from a number of award-winning engagements. Experiential courses are multi-disciplined learning experiences and this book will be most helpful for the unique demands of such a course. Our conceptual framework guides the pedagogy and the process flow model directs its sequential nature. Each section builds upon the previous one, directing students toward completing the consulting engagement. Our model promotes a conceptual understanding of the consulting process and the interactions between and among students, the team, the client, and the instructor. The model encourages communication among all stakeholders and can facilitate defining the project's parameters, which are keys to a successful engagement. It also provides a hands-on guide to completing the consulting project. We have provided an example, tool or template for every element in the student consulting process, from team creation to the final report and presentation. New in this edition: Along with a new award-winning project example and substantial upgrades in our appendix, we offer three major additions to further help students and instructors cope with the intricacies of experiential learning: * The first is to broaden the discussion of small business consulting and explain the differences between student team consulting (academic setting) and non-academic consulting. * The second is to apply our proven approach in the student team consulting model to the non-profit world and highlight the issues students need to be aware of in service-learning projects. * The third is a new chapter on mentoring and the importance it can play in the student team consulting process. Mentors can provide additional resources and serve as a sounding board for the student team.

How to Manage Student Consulting Projects

How to Manage Student Consulting Projects
Author: Joseph R. Weintraub
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1789907837

How to Manage Student Consulting Projects describes the key principles and tools needed by project advisors to manage student consulting projects in an academic setting. The authors highlight different approaches for managing student consulting teams and offer strategies that project advisors can use to improve project performance. The book also provides information for program administrators and deans, as well as project managers in non-academic settings, to help in the development and running of project-based learning.

The Palgrave Handbook of Experiential Learning in International Business

The Palgrave Handbook of Experiential Learning in International Business
Author: V. Taras
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 943
Release: 2016-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113746772X

The Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business is a one-stop source for international managers, business educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.

Management Consulting Projects

Management Consulting Projects
Author: Ronald G. Cook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021
Genre: Business consultants
ISBN: 9781032005157

This textbook provides students with an easy to use, proven roadmap for completing a successful consulting project from start to finish. Primarily designed for students who work as outside consultants on solving client problems and investigating potential opportunities, the textbook's structure first explains the consulting process to students and then depicts it in a chronological flow, using real-life examples to demonstrate practical application. Each section builds upon the previous one, focusing on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for employability. Now in its 6th edition, this text has been fully revised to bring it up to date with the current business context and global environment, including: A major expansion of the tools and resources needed for students to conduct research on a client's situation. A new final chapter that ties the overarching consulting process together and focuses on how the student should use this experience for their own professional development. New examples of award-winning projects to provide practical guidance. Fresh material on the use of new technologies in the consulting process, ethics and data management, and remote working. This well-renowned model promotes a conceptual understanding of the consulting process and the interactions between and among students, the team, the client and the instructor. Management Consulting Projects should be essential reading for experiential Business Consulting modules, Small Business Management and Strategic Management at postgraduate and MBA level.

Preparing Better Consultants

Preparing Better Consultants
Author: Susan Adams
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1617356166

This volume focuses on a relatively neglected area of management consulting, the education of consultants. In today’s business world, we find training programs provided by consultancies, certification programs provided by professional organizations, on-the-job training of consultants with formal or informal supervision, self-taught professionals, and some academic programs and courses. Is that enough? No, better consultants are needed to handle the complexity and changing nature of business. Academe is in the best position to provide the critical thinking preparation necessary. Yet, academic institutions have been slow in embracing this challenge. The role of academia needs to grow in magnitude and in certain directions that educate consultants beyond industry training practices. Chapter authors provide examples of innovative programs, topical approaches for courses, and thoughtful reflections on the role academia can play in preparing better consultants. There are lessons for business schools, consultancies, and aspiring and practicing consultants.

Information Systems and Technology Education: From the University to the Workplace

Information Systems and Technology Education: From the University to the Workplace
Author: Lowry, Glenn R.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1599041162

"This book presents a multifaceted, global view of the human dynamics of education, supply, demand, and career development in the information systems and technology industry. It provides a tool to meet the challenges of providing improved education and employing an optimal supply of information systems and technology graduates in the decades to come"--Provided by publisher.

Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning

Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning
Author: Northrup, Pamela
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799819299

Despite the promise of competency-based education (CBE), learner-centered issues related to support, retention, and program completion rates remain problematic. In addition, the infrastructure for higher education, including issues related to faculty (intellectual property, workload, and curriculum), pose barriers and challenges in the design, development, implementation, and delivery of CBE. In response, administrators, faculty, designers, and developers of competency-based experiences must incorporate innovative strategies that are foreign to the traditional institution. A strong emphasis on retention and graduation rates must surround the student with support, starting with the design and development of the CBE system. There are few resources that can help prepare instructional designers, advisors, academic administrators, and faculty to meet the many challenges of designing, developing, implementing, and managing CBE. Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning is an essential reference book that includes strategies for design and development of competency-based education (CBE) programs, as well as administrative and delivery strategies as examples of how CBE can be implemented. Through a strong theoretical framework, chapters present the best practices, strategies, and practical tips as examples and scenarios that can be used in higher education settings. While highlighting education courses, programs, and lessons across various institutions and educational domains, this book is ideal for higher education administrators and policy designers/implementors, instructional designers, curriculum developers, faculty, public policy leaders, students in curriculum and instruction and instructional technology programs, along with researchers and practitioners interested in CBE and experiential learning in higher education.

Consulting to Chaos

Consulting to Chaos
Author: John Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429912196

In clinical work, an awareness of patients' subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and treatment planning by describing a structured approach to eliciting patients' core relationship patterns. These patterns consist of the roles and scenarios into which they repeatedly cast themselves and others with whom they interact. Maladaptive patterns, in which vicious cycles and self-fulfilling prophecies of misperception, misunderstanding or provocation escalate, cause pain and havoc in personal relationships and can adversely affect both professionals' decisions and the overall delivery of treatment. This book shows how to use vital information that is often not made available to treatment teams in order to understand such potential pitfalls rather than succumb to them.