High Value Consulting: Managing and Maximizing External and Internal Consultants for Massive Added Value

✍ Scribed by Tom Lambert

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A behind-the-scenes look at how consulting works in the real world, High Value Consulting cuts through the jargon to put the power to get things done back in the hands of executives, managers and organization development professionals--where it belongs.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Part I Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Consulting......Page 14
1 The growth of consultancy......Page 16
2 External and internal consultants......Page 26
3 Different kinds of consultants......Page 36
Part II What’s Your Problem?......Page 58
4 Why do you need a consultant?......Page 60
5 What are the alternatives?......Page 76
6 Selecting the best – avoiding the worst......Page 82
7 Anatomy of a consulting disaster......Page 92
Part III Managing the Consulting Process......Page 108
8 Finding the right person......Page 110
9 Referees, referrals and repeat business......Page 128
10 Fees and contracts......Page 138
11 The consulting process......Page 160
12 Maximizing the benefit......Page 178
13 Making training work......Page 200
Afterword......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 214
C......Page 220
G......Page 221
N......Page 222
S......Page 223
X......Page 224