Management Consulting and Heraclitus’s Unity of Opposites

Author(s):  
David Shaw
1991 ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Jan Atoszkiewicz

Management consulting we współczesnym świecie cz.II


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-337
Author(s):  
Olga L. Shabalina ◽  
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Sergey Yu. Lavrentiev ◽  
Dmitry A. Krylov ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ewan Ferlie ◽  
Sue Dopson ◽  
Chris Bennett ◽  
Michael D. Fischer ◽  
Jean Ledger ◽  
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The chapter discusses management consultants and consulting knowledge in health care, highlighting significant expenditure on consultancy and how consultants have shaped thinking in public services, which some critics suggest has served consultants’ own (financial) interests. The chapter then discusses the way consultants mobilize management knowledge and frame clients’ problems and solutions. It discusses an empirical case study of a consultancy project to redesign NHS organizations to make substantial ‘efficiency savings’. Here, consultants framed the NHS’s problem and solution, and then imposed an organizational redesign. Local NHS managers and clinicians framed the NHS’s problem differently, doubting the consultants’ framing and proposing redesign, but feeling unable to engage in dialogue about these concerns. Consequently, they engaged with the project in a calculated and defensive way, superficially accepting the redesign while waiting for its implementation to fail. Thus, the chapter demonstrates framing politics surrounding management consulting knowledge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (175) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
A.P. Samorukov ◽  

Management consul ting is one of the fastest growing types of consulting in the structure of domestic services, since most enterprises are faced with the need to change management strategies, adapt to market requirements, as well as deeper implementation of digital technologies in the business processes of enterprises. This article reveals the theoretical foundations of management consulting, gives its classification, characterizes the conceptual apparatus and stages of the consulting process. The analysis and verification of the problems of the development of management consulting in Russia has been carried out. The practice is generalized and the assessment of the prospects for the development of management consulting in Russia is given.


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