The International Guide to Management Consultancy: The Evolution, Practice and Structure of Management Consultancy Worldwide, Volume 1

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Barry Curnow, Jonathan Reuvid
Kogan Page Publishers, 2003 - Business & Economics - 534 pages
This handbook for corporate purchasers of management consulting services provides a description of the profession worldwide and advice on how to choose and use its services effectively. Contributions from leading practitioners discuss such topics as the impact of information technology on management consultancy, the client-consultant relationship, and the role of leadership in corporate transformations. Distributed in the U.S. by Stylus Publishing. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Evolution and Practice of Management
7
Ethics and Best Practice
61
A Clients Guide to Management Consultancy
155
Key Consultancy Activities
235
Consulting Internationally
357
Scandinavia Flemming Poulfelt
411
Other Western Europe
420
The Middle East
436
The Americas
447
Asia Australasia
464
Appendices
509
Index
525
Index of advertisers
534
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Barry Curnow is vice chairman of the ICMCI, past president of the British IMC and principal of Maresfield Curnow. He is the joint author of three books and numerous articles and teaches consulting at City University Business School. Jonathan Reuvid graduated in PPE at Oxford University, worked as an economist for the French national oil company, Total, and then in investment banking before taking up senior line and staff positions in industry including general management of a Fortune 500 multinational covering most Western European countries. Subsequently, Jonathan Reuvid engaged in joint venture development in China and a parallel career in business book publishing. He is author of or consultant editor for more than 30 Kogan Page titles.

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