Outline of consulting
Overview of concepts related to consulting
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to consulting:
Consulting is the activity or business of giving expert assistance on a particular subject, notably to other professionals but also to the consumer market. The following outline provides a general overview of consulting.
Overview
- Coaching
- Contingent work
- Freelancer
- Gig worker
- Temporary work
- Division of labour
- Employment agency
- Focus group
- Knowledge worker
- Professional services network[1]
- Professional corporation
- Service provider
- Service-level agreement
- White-collar worker
- White shoe firm
Types
- Biotechnology consulting
- Economic consulting
- Energy consulting
- Engineering consulting
- Environmental consulting
- Faculty consulting
- Franchise consulting
- Human resource consulting
- Information technology consulting
- Management consulting[2]
- Political consulting
- Public consultation
- Public sector consulting
- Trial consulting
Concepts
- Action plan
- Business case
- Business reporting
- Capacity planning
- Change management
- Compound annual growth rate
- Critical path method
- Deliverable
- Design structure matrix
- Ethics in business communication
- Feedback
- High- and low-level
- Information market
- Leverage (finance)
- Mind map
- Organic growth
- Organizational intelligence
- Performance indicator
- Presentation slide
- Scenario planning[3]
- Scope (project management)
- Top-down and bottom-up design
- Utilization rate
- Zero Defects
Formats
- Enterprise legal management
- Enterprise resource planning
- Professional services
- Subject-matter expert
Services
- Corporate services
- Corporate sustainability
- Financial services
- Outsourcing
- Professional network service
- Research and development
Occupations
- Business consultant
- Consultant (medicine)
- Creative consultant
- Educational consultant
- Elevator consultant
- Employment consultant
- Foreclosure consultant
- Legal nurse consultant
- Loss-control consultant
- Media consultant
- Medical practice consultants
- Process consultant
- Sustainability consultant
Glossary
- Benchmarking
- Best practice
- Bird's-eye view
- Board of directors
- Business-to-business
- Competitive intelligence
- Core competency
- Direct-to-consumer
- Due diligence
- Elevator pitch
- End of day
- Gantt chart
- Greenfield investment
- Mission critical
- Opportunity cost
- Pareto principle
- Professional conduct
- Scope creep
- Sea change (idiom)
- Value added
Frameworks
- Balanced scorecard
- Boston Consulting Group's Advantage Matrix
- Growth–share matrix
- Managerial grid model
- McKinsey 7S Framework
- MECE principle
- OGSM
- PEST analysis
- Porter's five forces analysis
- Quality control
- Strategic Grid Model
- SWOT analysis
- Viability study
Notable firms
- Accenture
- Bain & Company
- Boston Consulting Group
- Capgemini
- Deloitte
- Ernst & Young
- Grant Thornton International
- IBM Consulting
- Infosys
- KPMG
- McKinsey & Company
- PwC
- WSP Global
Professional bodies
- Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand
- Conference of Consulting Actuaries
- Institute of Consulting
- Institute of Management Consultants USA
- International Council of Management Consulting Institutes
- International Federation of Consulting Engineers
Certifications
- Certified Consulting Meteorologist
- Certified management consultant
- Certified mortgage consultant
- Chartered financial consultant
See also
- Consulting psychology
- List of business terms
- List of former consulting firms
- List of IT consulting firms
- List of life sciences
- List of management consulting firms
- List of university statistical consulting centers
- Outline of accounting
- Outline of business
- Outline of management
- Tertiary sector of the economy
References
- ^ "Customer Retention, Purchasing Behavior and Relationship Substance in Professional Services". ScienceDirect.
- ^ Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession. International Labour Office. 2002.
- ^ "A review of scenario planning literature" (PDF). Science Impact (MIT).
- ^ "Extreme value theory in actuarial consulting: windstorm losses in central Europe" (PDF).
External links
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Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Consulting, Cambridge Dictionary
- What is consulting?, Consultancy.eu
- Consulting Definition, Lawinsider.com
- Elevator Consultant, Consultant.co
- Global Management Consulting Community
- Management Consulting Insights
