In 2021, the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE) set up a strategy development panel (CSDP) to provide advice and guidance for the next phase of its development. The group’s recommendations included identifying the fundamental issues in management consulting and using these to inform the research agenda in management consultancy for the future, thereby helping to improve the standing and value of the management consulting profession.
This report identifies these fundamental issues in management consulting from a practitioner’s perspective and uses them to frame a research agenda in management consultancy. These issues cover:
- The scope of management consultancy;
- Ethics and professional standards;
- Consultant Value;
- Delivering services;
- Managing client relationships.
CMCE has used this framework to develop its own programme of research and seminars, and the report provides an update on progress.
Please download the report to learn the research issues that are important to practitioners.
The Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE) is a voluntary organisation set up by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, a City of London Livery Company, to share academic research and practitioner experience to the benefit of the consulting community.