Management consultancy -What next?

This book is a substantial re-write of the author's earlier book on management consultancy that has established itself as a leading book on this topic. This re-write focuses upon the analysis of the impact of e-business on the consulting industry as well as examining the changing structure of the industry and emerging segmentation. It also includes recent material on the efforts of consulting firms to manage knowledge more effectively and includes new and more examples and interviews.
Contents:
Introduction
Changes in the Client-Consultant Relationship
Consultancy in the Next Decade
Innovation: the Over-Production of Truth
Managing Existing Intellectual Capital
Alliances and Networks
Branding
Specialisation
Changing Balance of People and Technology
Globalisation
The Polarisation of Consulting Styles
From Advising to Doing
Author Biographies:
FIONA CZERNIAWSKA is Founder and Managing Director of Arkimeda, specialising in research and consultancy for consulting companies. She is also Director of the Management Consultancies Association's Think Tank in the UK, and lectures at London Business School and other European business schools. As a management consultant of long-standing experience, she has worked with many top companies. She is the author of Management Consultancy in the 21st Century, Corporate Speak and Business in a Virtual World (with Gavin Potter).
Printing of the book is limited to 10 pages per day.

Keywords: management consultancy, e-business, consulting industry, knowledge management, intellectual capital, branding, globalization, globalisation