Propose solutions to problems: "Management consulting is a career in which generalist problem solvers help companies solve their business problems," according to this article from Science Careers [1]. Design and complete projects: "Management consultants help businesses improve their performance and grow by solving problems and finding new and better ways of doing things. It's not just in the p...

Consulting is a major and established business sector in almost every Western economy representing, for instance, 42% of the EU GNP. About 29% of this market comprises IT-related consulting and especially ERP consulting. Here, the implementation of information systems and the inevitable change to organisational-technical systems is also a political process. An IT-consulting project can thus be ...

This paper investigates the relationship between engagement in consulting activities and the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have been principal investigators in activities contracted by external agents over the period 1999-2004. By implemen...

SRK Consulting (UK) Limited (SRK) is an associate company of the international group holding company, SRK Consulting (Global). SRK provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to the resource industry. Consulting services are for mineral resource projects ranging from exploration, development and exploitation through to closure, and in the fields of geology, mining, infrastructure, bio...

C onsulting is a widely used but often misunderstood term. Some say consultants provide clients with advice or perform professional services for them, but there’s really no standard definition. We define it as a specialized professional service that provides expert advice to clients in a domain-specific field (such as IT or management). People hire consultants to diagnose, define, and solve the...

Tarragon Consulting Corporation (henceforth Tarragon) contributed two runs to the new Common Core track. Both were manual runs using the NIST judged topics. Both used Solr as the base search engine with the queries semi-automatically constructed from the Topic descriptions and augmented with information from Wordnet and Wikipedia. Results are generally below the published median scores but for ...

the present study has been done with the aim of exploring the effects of organizational dynamic capabilities on competitive advantage in consulting firms. to do so, a grounded theory method was used which was suitable regarding the explorative nature of the research. seventeen consulting firms were the research sample. the ceos and members of board of directors of these firms were interviewed. ...

This paper investigates whether engagement in consulting activities has a significant impact on the research performance of academic scientists. The study relies on a sample of 2678 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been recipients of publicly funded grants or have been principal investigators in activities contracted by external agents over the period 1999-2004. By i...

About the authors: Both authors worked several years as engagement managers for a leading strategy consulting firm. At the moment they are writing their professor thesis (" Habilitation ") at the European Business School in Oestrich Winkel (Schmidt) and the University of St. Gallen (Vogt). They lecture MBA and executive courses at various business schools (e. Abstract The paper explores the pre...