Academic consultancy

'Academic Capitalism': Universities' Consultancy Agendas

Recent debate in Higher Education (HE) has attempted to identify the legitimate components at the core of academic scholarship. Teaching and research, are recognized activities of modern academia; although their nexus is at times questioned. This paper seeks to understand the role of a rising academic activity, academic consultancy, and to portray its impact onto HE. A two-stage research design...

The Consultancy Game

. The Legal Consultancy Game is the game of giving legal advice professionally. It aims to be a description in general terms of the predictable patterns in an advice transaction between a consultant and a client. It is also a description of what the client demands of good legal advice. There are good reasons to describe consultancy as a game-like activity. Firstly, it shows how legal consultanc...

How to critique consultancy reports?

Outside edge: the value of external consultancy.

EXTERNAL CONSULTANCY, the review of organisations by experts from outside, is a well established approach adopted by many non-public service organisations to help solve problems, seize new opportunities and achieve business objectives. In the NHS, the cost of commissioning external consultancy can be prohibitive (Price 2000) so internal consultancy is often used as a substitute. The drawbacks o...

Knowledge Management Implementation in a Consultancy Firm

KM has become an important strategy for improving organisational competitiveness and performance. Organisations can certainly benefit from the lessons learnt and insights gained from those that have adopted it. This chapter presents the results of a case study conducted in a consultancy firm, and the major aim is to identify how KM has been developed and implemented. Specifically, the elements ...