Get Certified as a Management Consultant
Unlike technical or specialist professions, the management consulting profession does not require its members to get certified. After all, what would you get certified in? The nature of the business is such that members can have broad and general experience, or be specialized so that they are focused to serve a particular industry (or a part of that vertical). How do you possibly certify that?
Enter the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI). In its own words:
We are an international membership organisation and a network of the management advisory and consultancy associations and institutes worldwide…We were founded in 1987 to promote a closer working relationship between all management consulting institutes or organisations primarily dedicated to the registration or certification of individual management consultants. The purpose of this closer working relationship is to… create...
Continue reading...The Top Consultants of 2008
Getting to the top in the world of consulting is no easy task. It takes an inquisitive and analytical mind, mastery of communication and interpersonal skills and, much like most other successes in life, a little bit of luck.
Consulting Magazine has pulled together their 2008 Top 25 Consultants list and while the firms may be the same (with the exception of newly formed Booz & Company), the recipients of this honor are new.
Notable recipients include:
- Shumeet Banerji, the first CEO of Booz & Company, the new global, commercial management consulting practice spun off from the 94-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton
- Charles Farkas, senior partner at Bain & Company and head of the firm’s North American Healthcare Practice
- Karen Vander Linde, global leader of PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Change Management...
Continue reading...Basics of a Current State Assessment
No matter the stage of a project a consultant is brought on to a project, chances are that a current state assessment of the client situation was conducted at some point in time - either formally or informally. Output from this critical component of the consulting process is a key determinant of the direction taken by the consulting organization in future stages and the first step in improving organizational performance.
Image by nickdWhat is a Current State Assessment?
A current state assessment is essentially an understanding of the current state of the organization or the situation being observed. It can range from a simple...
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