The purchasing of management Consulting services has traditionally been characterized by informal and relation based interaction. However, case studies have shown that there is a movement towards more formalized and structured purchasing procedures among buyers of management Consulting services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence and the implications of this professionalization. To investigate to what extent certain mechanisms of professionalization have been implemented on the Swedish market, a survey directed to Sweden?s 500 largest companies was conducted.

A case study was done of Sthlm Policy Group, a Consulting agency that mainly targets NGOs and government agencies in the peace and security sector. The goal of the case study was to explore the tendency of NGOs in Sweden to hire commercial Consulting companies. The main interest was to see what the key reasons are for NGOs to hire private Consulting agencies, but also to explore what problems that might be associated with such relationships. Interviews were carried out with representatives of the Consulting agency, with its clients as well as with other NGOs that were identified as potential clients. The interviewed NGOs and government agencies were found to approve of the use of commercial consultants.

Management Consulting firms are dependent on attracting and recruiting new talents since the human capital has a vital role in these types of organizations. In the following years a new generation, Generation Y, will to a large extent enter the labour market. According to several studies this generation has different characteristics than older generations.This thesis examines management Consulting firms? views of Generation Y and which strategies they use to attract and retain the generation. The fact that the subjects are unexplored led the authors to conduct a qualitative study of seven management Consulting firms through in-depth interviews.

Background: An accountant is supposed to secure that the information from a company is true and fair. Recently Consulting, or giving advice, has grown to be a major part of an accountants daily work particularly in smaller companies which may have insufficient financial competence themselves. This means that an accountant occupies two parts, as an independent reviewer and as an initiated advisor, which have caused controversy. Purpose: The purpose is to outline and explain how the accountants and audit customers regard an eventual discrepancy between performing the audit and Consulting, and to give suggestions how to manage this. The purpose is also to define what customers perceive as quality in Consulting an auditor.

The market for management Consulting services is changing with an increased level of competition and more specialized service providers. At the same time there is a high level of companies that fail in their efforts to establish themselves on the market. This thesis sets out to give the reader an increased understanding of the complex characteristics of the market for these services, focusing more specifically on which factors that have an effect on the strategy development for companies within the industry. The thesis is also aimed at providing the reader with a deeper understanding of how developing Consulting companies can tackle the specific challenges facing them. In order to meet the purpose of the thesis, we have applied relevant theories to a generic strategy model in order to develop a model that is applicable for the management Consulting industry.

PurposeThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the market of pedagogic Consulting and how the customers look upon these kinds of services and what the consultants think about the market. The following five questions were investigated:What is the situation of the market of pedagogic Consulting?-          What needs and what demands are there of pedagogical Consulting services? -          What are the economic possibilities for schools and municipalities to buy professional development and Consulting services?What do schools and municipalities think about their needs and what do they think about buying professional development from consultants?-          How are the professional development offerings of the consultants recieved by schools and municipalities and is there a difference between the private and public sector of education? -          What impact could professional development have on schools?In what way is the marketing for pedagogic Consulting done?Method In this study I have chosen to have a qualitative approach with an abductive perpective. I made these choices to get closer to what I wanted to investigate. Through the abductive methodology it was possible to go between theory and empirics.

This paper aims to outline leaders' experiences of managing consultants from their company's performance management system. The study was conducted by qualitative interviews with senior managers and HR professionals within a management Consulting firm. The aim was to describe the company's performance management system, their consultants and the challenges of leading in this context. The theoretical framework consists of previous research in leadership, performance management and management Consulting. Within these research areas the authors identify a knowledge gap in leaders' perspectives on managing top-talents with performance management systems in the management Consulting industry.

Management Consulting firms are an important part of the knowledge economy and they capitalize on the analytical ability and knowledge of their employees. Much research have been made on large Consulting firms and their management of knowledge, but little is known about how small consultancies manage their knowledge. Even less is known about the management of knowledge in small consultancies specialized in change management. These firms rely solely on senior consultants and focus on the human aspect of organizational development. This thesis aims to show how these firms manage their knowledge and also provide an understanding of why.

This master thesis concerns itself with the actual work of knowledge workers, consultants to be specific. We have through interviews and observation tried to get inside of the ?black box? of the consultants firm Consult in an effort to describe their way of working through a theoretical framework. In this framework we attempt to combine knowledge work theory with that of organizational development, OD. We try to introduce the situation of the individuals we study, the consultants, through Alvesson (2004) and Løwendahl (2005).

Sammanfattning: Intern Kommunikation - En studie av den interna kommunikationen på Consulting AB inför, under och efter en organisatorisk förändringDatum: 2013-05-29Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 hpInstitution: Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik (EST), Mälardalens Högskola, VästeråsFörfattare: Frida Källgren, Johan Olsson och Markus WallströmTitel: Intern Kommunikation - En studie av den interna kommunikationen på Consulting AB inför, under och efter en organisatorisk förändringHandledare: Birgitta SchwartzSidor: 38Bilagor: 2Nyckelord: Kommunikation, Intern kommunikation, Förändringsprocess, organisatorisk förändring, Ledarskap, KommunikationskanalerProblemformulering: Hur kommunicerade Consulting AB internt inför och under förändringen till kontorslandskap? Hur har den interna kommunikationen på Consulting AB förändrats till följd av den organisatoriska förändringen? Hur skulle den interna kommunikationen inför och under förändringsprocessen kunnat göras bättre?Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka den interna kommunikationen på Consulting AB inför och under deras förändring till kontorslandskap, huruvida den interna kommunikationen förändrats till följd av förändringen samt om den hade kunnat genomföras på ett bättre sätt.Metod: Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie med abduktiv ansats. Intervjufrågorna var semistrukturerade och intervjuerna gjordes med sammanlagt sju personer.Slutsats: Bra ledarskap och kommunikation under förändringsprocessen. Genom hårt arbete och noggranna val av kommunikationskanaler har ledarskap och kommunikation uppfattats som väl fungerade under denna period.Öppnare kommunikation. Kommunikationen har i och med förändringen till kontorslandskap blivit öppnare och det på grund av fler konversationer mellan en eller flera medarbetare snarare än att använda mejl.Vissa förbättringsmöjligheter inför framtida projekt har upptäckts och dem är förberedelse inför arbete i kontorslandskap, tydligare information kring eventuella förändringar, skapa en större delaktighet bland personalen, inte stirra sig blind på avdelningsplacering i kontorslandskapet och uppföljning av förändringen..

This thesis work is about how technical Consulting companies can accept their organization before a coming recession. Technical Consulting companies are together with the rest of the actors in the construction business constantly depended on the current economic situation on the market. How to adapt the organisation depends on the current situation on the market.To adapt the organization in the best way possible the companies need to recruit and educate personal. It is then very important to find a solution on how the current change of generation in the companies will be handled. The large and very much competent group of 40-talists will in a few years retire.

This study examines how management Consulting firms work with business- and functional strategy and how these strategies are interrelated. More specifically we focus on business strategy (business unit level) and knowledge strategy (functional level) and whether these are aligned or not, i.e. whether strategic congruence exists.A number of recent studies have examined the importance of business strategy and knowledge strategy in management Consulting firms separately, but few have pointed out the importance of the alignment between them. With this study we contribute to the strategic field of research with a model that describes how management Consulting firms should work with their knowledge strategy given their business strategy. The model is developed through a synthesis between theories in the field of strategic congruence, business- and functional strategies and thereafter tested by an empirical case study of six management Consulting firms.

Title ?Att attrahera nya målgrupper med planerad kommunikation?Author Magnus Ejerhed, Anna Johansson and Caroline JägersvärdCourse Bachelor thesis in Media and communication studiesSemester Spring semester 2008Tutor Britt BörjessonUniversity the University of GothenburgAim the aim of the study is to describe students attitudes to Volvo IT as an employer.How can Volvo IT improve their communication to students?Method A quantitative approachMaterial A questionnaire which has been given to 122 students in economics atHandelshögskolan in Gothenburg and Industrial economics at Chalmers Universityof technologyMain results The main results of the study are that most of the students in economics andindustrial economy are positive to work as management consults. They also havean optimistic attitude to work as intern management consults in a large company.The students don?t regard Volvo IT as a possible future employer; neither do theyhave a good knowledge of the organization.Conclusions It is very likely that the students don?t regard Volvo IT as a potential employerbecause they don?t think of Volvo IT as an organization in management Consulting.Volvo IT has to make their management Consulting, Fortos ManagementConsulting, more visible if they are going to make the students more interested ofthem as an organization in management Consulting. They have to inform theirtarget group what new competences they are looking for.

This report deals with an IT solution for the fictive company, Nexus Consulting. It is a small company with four employees, dealing with economic policy. The company wishes to set up a complete network environment with antivirus, firewall, computers and servers. They want us to analyze and compare different outsourcing companies offering cloud services and then recommend which company would suit them best.In addition, the company wants to have a webpage containing essential information about them and the services that they offer their customers.The report describes, analyzes and compares three outsourcing companies offering complete cloud services where a practical solution proposal has been developed by the group.The network component is based on the Windows platform and the web part is coded in HTML and PHP.The report also discusses what cloud computing is and why so many companies choose to move to it..

This project was conducted during the spring semester 2013 at mechanical engineering program at University Halmstad. The project was conducted in collaboration with MPQ Consulting in Halmstad. MPQ Consulting is a newly established company looking to take step into the product development world. The company has already had ideas and existing products. One of the ideas is to construct and design a form of beach games whose rules are based on the volleyball rules.