Program Objectives
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Understand the Consulting Process
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Acquire a wide range of management consulting tools and skills
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Understand the factors which contribute to being a successful consultant and running a successful consulting business
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Be capable of thinking critically and strategically
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Develop good analytical and problem solving skills
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Be capable of reflecting, making informed decisions and sharing knowledge and information
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Be capable of effectively communicating in an international business environment
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Be capable of analysing business problems, applying concepts and knowledge to specific projects/situations and developing innovative business solutions
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Understand the current state of the consulting industry
Business Consulting Skill focuses on the challenges of the consulting profession. The program is aimed at managers who wish to pursue a career either as independent consultants or within a major consulting firm.
This program provides an understanding of the consulting process and organisational change together with the skills necessary to lead international consulting projects.
The following three modules make up the course content:
The Consulting Process
Methodology for Consulting Assignments
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Entry, client brief, problems and symptoms, diagnosis, data collection, developing solutions and evaluating alter-natives, implementation, termination,
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Proposals and assignment management: report writing, presentations, winning business, reporting to the client and to the consulting firm, measuring results and formulating proposals, implementation, follow-up & control.
Consulting Tools
Corporate Business Process for Consultants
This module aims to deal with the current issues facing companies in today¡¯s fast moving environment.
The module will examine a wide range of modern global business processes, challenges and opportunities from both the consultant¡¯s and the manager¡¯s perspectives and provide a learning platform to integrate and practice the skills and knowledge learned in the other modules in this program and the entire graduate business school curriculum.
At the end of this module participants will understand the Business Processes which will ensure the growth and success of a company and contribute to its competitiveness. They will also understand how organizations grow and evolve over time and how they should/can adapt to the surrounding business environment whilst taking into account their own strategy and constraints.
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Lectures on diverse elements of the consulting industry, including M&A, Turnarounds, Internal Consulting, Client-consultant issues, and the impact of recent corporate scan-dals on the global consulting industry
Developing Consulting Expertise
The module builds on Organisational Behaviour and Change Management theory and has three main objectives:
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Students will be introduced to the role of creativity in today¡¯s business and to make them aware of skills, techniques, and conditions they can develop to foster creativity both in their own organisations and their clients¡¯ organisations
Organisational Consulting
The life cycle of an enterprise, Organisational Development, Structure and Strategy: Adapting the organisation to the strategy, Structuring and restructuring organisations through corporate growth, Implementing Organisational Change, Managing Conflict and Resistance to Change, Selecting, Developing and Training Managers, Optimising Performance, Creating a learning organisation.
Creative Management for Consultants
Why Creativity is important or what can it bring to business, Introduction to creativity techniques, How to foster creativity in organisations? Creativity and Innovation, Creativity and change.
Managing the successful consulting practice
The consulting industry today, ¡°Thought leadership¡±, Selling Consulting Services, Managing People Business, Profitability, Differentiating consulting services, Ethics and professional integrity
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