Strategy Consulting

This Element provides an overview of strategy consulting, a highly respected yet simultaneously deeply detested profession.

Jeroen Kraaijenbrink (Author)

9781108811958, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 August 2020

75 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.13 kg

Strategy consulting is one of the most highly respected and at the same time deeply detested jobs on this planet. Despite all the attention and controversy, though, there is surprisingly little written about it specifically. To address this void, this Element provides a comprehensive overview of this fascinating and emerging profession. Relying on existing research and the author's practical experience, it describes what strategy consulting is, where it comes from, how to effectively practice it and where to take it into the future. Taking the position of the individual strategy consultant, it offers an insightful perspective that is useful for scholars, students, consultants and clients of strategy consulting. In doing so it moves away from the dominant corporate practice of analytical strategy consulting. Instead, it offers an idealized whole-brain and whole-person view on what strategy consulting could and should be like in order to fully live up its promise as a profession contributing to society.

1. Introduction
2. The Origins of Strategy Consulting
3. Traditional Strategy Consulting and Its Limitations
4. The Nature and Purpose of Strategy Consulting
5. The Strategy Consulting Process
6. Strategy Consulting Roles
7. Conclusion and Outlook.

Subject Areas: Consultancy & grants for businesses [KJL], Business strategy [KJC], Business studies: general [KJB], Business & management [KJ]