![]() ![]() The knowledge and expertise that consultants bring into the company led to define consultants themselves as the "shock troops" of the new age, the "key agents and symbols of contemporary social change", the "capitalism's commissars", the "promoters of new management fashions", "pre-eminent knowledge brokers" or knowledge mediators, "corporate puppets", under a positive or negative association (O'Shea, Madigan, 1998 Fincham, Clark, 2003 Thrift, 2005 McKenna, 2006 Sturdy et al., 2009 Sturdy, 2011). However, going forward, consultants and data scientists will likely need to cooperate and synergize their efforts. ![]() A risk brought on by the advancement of digitalization is that organizations may be tempted to try optimizing their performance by having in-house data scientists take on more of the consultants’ traditional tasks, which may lead to less favorable outcomes. The chapter concludes that digitalization will carry the greatest benefit during phase 3, the analysis phase. To this end, four phases of consulting have been identified: (1) the pre-analysis phase, (2) the problem-identification phase, (3) the analysis phase and (4) the implementation phase. The development of analytics tools will be of paramount importance. ![]() This theoretical/speculative study draws upon some of the available literature and the authors’ own best-practice experiences in exploring some of the most pressing issues of the digitalization process of consulting of today, with an anticipation of how the role and profile of the consultants may come to develop in the near future as digitalization and the digital transformation ensues. As digitalization continues to progress, the consultants of tomorrow may acquire several technological advantages, while at the same time they may also face new challenges. The role of consultants is ever changing. As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, structured problem-solving, decision-making, communication and solution implementation as applied by the world’s top management consultancy firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘why’ at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study. This text provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms. Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. ![]()
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