Management Consulting Essentials: Self assessment
I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants. 99% of them are extremely busy. They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...
Management Consulting Essentials: The first meeting
I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants. 99% of them are extremely busy. They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...
Management Consulting Essentials: Pre-qualification
I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants. 99% of them are extremely busy. They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...
Management Consulting Essentials: Positioning
I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants. 99% of them are extremely busy. They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...
Management Consulting Productivity
How do you ensure that you constantly improve speed, quality, value and price/performance in your consulting services? In short: How do you deliver more, at a lower price with a higher profit? I find most of the management consulting industry terribly old fashioned. I have the impression that most...
The Three Types of Independent Management Consultants
In a previous blog post I wrote about the 4 types of consulting. This post is about the three types of independent management consultants. I have been working in government for 3 years and in business for 31 years. Since 2003 I have been operating as a management consultant....
The Fifth Perspective
This post is claiming a need for a fifth perspective in business leadership. The management perspective = Leadership & Execution capability. The fifth perspective is critical for any company in the software industry with ambitions of achieving global market dominance....
The four types of consulting
This post explains the 4 types of consulting as they are defined by David H. Maister....
Was the IT industry exciting and predictable?
Claiming that the IT industry used to be exciting and predictable is a distortion of reality covered by the term "Nostalgia"....
Strategy & change: are they related?
I recently came across a statement saying that only around 25% of all companies have a strategy in place. The statement also referred to statistics saying that 80% of all change efforts failed. The question is: are the two phenomena somehow related?...