Consulting underwent many significant changes which resulted in important and structural modification of the whole business. In the 1980's consulting was mere advisory for CEOs: the growth of potential users brought to the development of specific competences and approaches, thus creating new...

Frequent environmental discontinuity, and intense changes in the competitive dynamics and logics of client business areas, are transforming the management consulting industry and the complexity and the articulation of the consulting demand is also growing. The value chain of client firms is...

Decision-makers tend to view consulting projects in a positive light because that validates their decision to use consultants. That consultants know what they are doing is an undoubted prerequisite for success across all types of projects, not just people-related ones. The more knowledgeable a...

Ethics is a relevant value in business and management consulting. The presence of recognized ethics tends to reduce the need for informative or legal-contractual precautions in the formalization of relationships, for both of the parts involved in a negotiation. Management Consulting on ethics...

The role of management consulting in Italy has progressively changed during the last two decades, as did the requirements from the clients. Until the eighties Italian firms did not have in-house capabilities to define a full fledged corporate strategy. Entrepreneurs needed to be supported and...

Boutique consultancy firms operate in global markets in selected areas in which they hold the strongest competencies - able to provide tailor-made rather than off-the- shelf services in any situation. Clients aiming to impose far-reaching change, are typical boutique clients. Irrespective of...

Companies, in every industry are increasingly challenged to build a capacity for change, both in response to and in anticipation of continuously changing competitive market and technological pressures. Client-consultant collaboration can be prompted to broaden change management repertoire,...

Within economic globalization, management consulting has become an important source for innovation in management, forming a bridge between academia, firms, and thought leaders in other fields. In the 1980s and 1990s, management consulting has grown quickly in US and in Europe. The current trend...

In the last years, dominated by the new reality of the global markets, the traditional vision of corporate management has recorded many changes, that also change the role and the organizational structures of management consulting firms. Corporations operating in global markets have very...

The extraordinary growth of Private Equity over the use last ten years has led to this capital market sector becoming a fully-fledged industry with specific operational skills, methodologies and capabilities. Private Equity is constantly seeking out new ideas and people capable of delivering...