Whether you are preparing for a management consultancy career or are looking to build on your management studies or experience working in business, you are likely to have encountered management consultancy. To acquire widely applicable consultancy skills, you will need a clear and concise introduction to this area. This text will help you understand practices and techniques to hire and to implement management consultancy in the future, giving you the essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms.
Built around learning objectives and providing engaging, real-life examples, this text empowers the reader to understand the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘why’ at macro and micro levels of management consultancy.
As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by the world’s top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company.
Marc Baaij is an associate professor of strategic management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Previously he worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as manager of research and strategy consultant. Marc specialises in methods and techniques for strategy development and implementation, with a focus on stakeholder management and strategic foresight development. He has written professional books and scientific articles on strategic management, management consultancy, and structured problem solving. Besides teaching bachelor, master, and MBA students, Marc also provides open and in-company training in structured problem-solving and communication for managers, consultants, and other business professionals. He also serves as a soundboard for managers in cases of strategy development and implementation. Marc holds a master’s degree in economics and is a PhD in strategic management.