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Consultant-managers: something else to worry about

By ⋅ 3 May 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

If you talk to consultants in Germany one of the post-recession trends they’re most likely to mention is the rise of in-house consulting units in multinational companies. Driven by a desire to build internal skills as much as cut the amount of money spent on consultants, these units pose a genuine threat to consulting firms [...]

New business models: Part 2

By ⋅ 17 December 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Internal consultants have a chequered history: one minute they are on the up, eager recipients of corporate largesse; the next they are on the down, seen as a luxury the organisation can no longer afford. Lacking the brand and independence of external resources, they have widely been seen as the “poor manager’s consultant”, the people [...]

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