STRATEGIC BUSINESS CONSULTING

Catalog description

Strategic consulting aims to prepare students for internal and external management consulting process. Topics include industry analysis, consulting skills development, consultant -client relationships, stages of consulting (contracting, data collection and diagnosis, feedback and the decision to act, developing client commitment, implementation, results, and accountability), ethics of consulting, differences between internal and external consulting, understanding resistance, managing meetings, project management, and management of consulting firms. Provides and in-depth understanding of strategy consulting. Explore defining and understanding the strategy consulting assignment, client relationship, work methodology, value creation, presentation and follow up. Examines individual, interpersonal and organizational theories of development of intervention effectiveness. Develop an understanding of how internal and external consultants add value to the organizations.