Essays on Management Consulting

Abstract

There has been a huge debate and research on different forms of the organizational change and various methods of managing those changes in the organization. Various studies and scholars have put forward their ideas and views about the change management with complementary as well as opposing models of managing change in the organization. It is very crucial for an organization to change continuously and it is equally important to manage the change happening in an organization with a proper model. This paper identifies and analyzes various reasons for the organization to change and manage the change. The paper further ...

Question 1

In my opinion, composition of workforce is a major factor in determining the company’s ability to produce future leaders. There are several reasons for this point of view. Firstly, management consulting firms or other companies with similar composition of workforce have a larger portion of employees that are already close to the CEO position. Holding managerial positions, they have abilities, skills, knowledge, and situation-specific experience that are directly related to leadership functions required to run a company successfully. Secondly, managers have a much better professional network within an industry than lower-level workers. As a result, they are well informed about job opportunities that ...

Management

The aim of this management paper is to recognize the various steps in the consulting process. In an article by Thomas Ausart, it has been discussed that operations consulting is focused on the operational aspect of projects where companies are guided about implementation of strategies and about how efficiency of business can be improved. The difference with traditional management consulting is that, in operational consulting, the consultants stay back to work alongside the business on the implementation process and to check the results. In the operations consulting, process there are several steps which starts with proposal development for ...

Currently, the human resource field is one of the areas that churn out hundreds of new graduates every year. Although competition for jobs keeps on growing every day, there are still many opportunities that are up for grabs. The positive developments observed in worldwide markets, for instance, keep the optimism alive. In order to understand the opportunities that exist, the types of jobs offered, the salary range offered, the educational level required for promotion and experience needed for advancement, it is important to analysis a real case study of an existing company. In this case, Oliver Wyaman Company is the ...

Business Environment and Organizational Purpose

The organization for the interview is Accenture. It is a management consulting, outsourcing and technology services company. It operates in the Czech Republic and other 120 countries on the globe (Bakalova, 2011). It has been selected for the interview since it has a wide operation base across the world. In addition, it’s traded publicly, which means that it deals with a variety of stakeholders. The global presence of Accenture implies that it has applied some effective strategies in line with its mission. To obtain the information, the public relations manager of Accenture was interviewed. The report is in the third section ...

Strategic Management

Introduction to Accenture Accenture is one of the leading organizations around the world, which deals with providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services to their clients. The company currently has more than 30500 employees and handles operations and offices in more than 200 cities in 56 different countries. According to the financial reports, the company has already made $ 30 million in net revenues until now in 2014 (Accenture, 2014). According to the official website of the company, they work on four growth platforms namely - Accenture Strategy - Accenture Digital - Accenture Technology - ...

Introduction & Background

The Management Consultancy industry was estimated to be worth upwards of £44 billion annually by the close of August 2014, and is expected to grow by a further 2.6% over the next year. It comprises more than 121,801 businesses that employ 333,020 people, with services that range from IT consulting, marketing, organizational and strategic planning, business process planning and human resources . The industry, which seeks to create value by solving problems, optimizing growth and improving business performance, traces its roots to the beginning of the 20th century. It emerged in the wake of the Wall Street crash, which ...

Background

Although it is a small business compared to its competitors, Bain & Company has managed to succeed in modern complicated economy. Bain & Company headquarters, which is an American global management consulting business, is based at Boston Massachusetts. One of the main services of Bain & Company is to offer advisory services to a good number of the global largest government agencies, non-profit organisation, and other global businesses. The Bain & Company started in the late 1973 by a group of individuals and employees from the Boston Consulting Group. The initial leaders of the organisation were the GCG VP bill Bain who increase its profit by ...

Company Overview

Accenture Inc. is a management consulting and technology firm. It is the biggest consulting firm by revenue in the world. Accenture was formed when Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting split in 2001. After splitting from Arthur Anderson, Anderson Consulting in 2001 took a new name called ‘Accenture’. Accenture currently has more than 2, 66,000 employees working in 120 countries. Accenture has maximum number of employees in India (87,000) followed by USA (40000) and Philippines (35000). The headquarter of Accenture was in Bermuda for a long time but in 2009 it was shifted to Dublin, Ireland. Accenture generated revenue of around $ ...

1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM(S) The problem that was indicated in the case study was the obstacles that the company faced during creation of new entity. This entity was created with the merger of ATK and EDS but with this merger, there were a lot of critiques and questions that were raised as both the organizations had totally different background and were operating in different market as well. It is important for the organizations to carefully analyze and evaluate the different factors and elements before taking a decision of merger or acquisition. If the organization is able to manage ...

Introduction

Morgan’s images of organization (1998) are popular diagnostic tools in the field of management as they allow for an organization to be viewed from different perspectives. In turn, this allows for a more holistic view of the organization and a better understanding of the situation being diagnosed. This paper uses Morgan’s metaphors of organization in diagnosing an employee motivation problem at Accenture. This paper also presents a critical evaluation of the diagnostic reading, as well as recommendations with regards to the possible alternatives and solutions.

Company Overview

Accenture is “a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company” (Accenture, 2013). Accenture is ...

Introduction

A sourcing strategy is essential for any organization looking to either push a product into a market or get supplies of products and services from producers or suppliers. The selection and development process of these strategies will be influenced by certain issues, and in the long-run, the strategy selected will develop problems due to change within the organization or due to market forces. This paper aims at looking at the issues to be considered when developing a sourcing strategy, the potential problems that may arise from the strategies and relationships with key suppliers that will be created, and possible solutions to the ...

The five dysfunctions of a team

Patrick Lencoini is a president of the Table Group, a San Francisco Bay Area management consulting firm. He is also a speaker invited by many corporations to talk about success of business enterprises; he worked at management consulting firm Bain & company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase where he worked as a vice president of organizational development. He also works on many advisory boards and National Boards of Directors for the Make-A-wish Foundation of America. He lives in Alamo California with his wife and four sons in San Francisco Bay area. Patrick has written many business books which have helped leaders to improve their businesses. ...

When I started this assignment, I really thought that I had what it took to slide relatively easily into the job market. Even though I knew, on an objective level, that we are in a recession and that it will be difficult to market myself without strong connections, I figured that my results in my classes and my existing experience would help me land on my feet in a successful position.

While I feel that my CV is one of the stronger parts of my application package that I would be sending to a potential employer, I also realize that it shows some ...

How has Wal-Mart grown from a small region chain to the largest discount retailer in the world? How has its strategy contributed to the firm's growth?

The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The first Wal-Mart store was opened in Rogers, Arkansas. Seventeen years later, annual sales were more than $ 1 billion. In January 2006, Wal-Mart was the largest retailer in the world, with a turnover of $ 218 billion (for the same period, Kmart’ turnover $ 37 billion, Sears’s $ 40,9 billion, Target’s $ 36,9 billion, Walgreen’s $ 21,2 billion). However, the biggest figure of net income for the same period received Walgreen $ 3,7 billion, Target $ 3,4 billion, Sears $ 3,3 billion, the same as Wal - Mart$ 3,3 ...

Management Consulting Job

Management Consulting indicates both the practice of, and the industry of assisting organization to improve their performance through the analysis of the business that exists and has problems. It is a service industry that gives advice to those in charge or operating the business. I chose to give a report of this particular job because I am quite familiar with this particular field. Moreover, the job reward job analysis of this particular job is given in details.

Below are the methods of conducting job analysis for this particular job:

1. The job analyst has to visit the job site and ...