Celebrating Design Thinking and Experiential Learning
Uncertainty has an upside. In Think by Design (TBD), you'll practice a hands-on approach to combine design thinking and experiential learning in business education. Our world's biggest challenges put pressure on everyone. These challenges require us to blend how we act with how we think. Through combined action and reflection, we learn to use ......
Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China's unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country's swarming cities, recent ......
Introduction to Business Consulting provides readers with an informative overview of business consulting. The text describes how consultants develop interventions to help clients achieve goals, the characteristics of a successful consultant, consultants' career options, key concepts within the profession, and much more. The book is organized into ......
Introduction to Business Consulting provides readers with an informative overview of business consulting. The text describes how consultants develop interventions to help clients achieve goals, the characteristics of a successful consultant, consultants' career options, key concepts within the profession, and much more. The book is organized ......
Essentials of Grant Writing for the Human Services
FUNDED! leads readers from knowing nothing about writing grants to having a complete grant proposal. Based on personal experience, years of teaching, and the expertise of dozens of professional nonprofit grant writers, students learn about writing grants by completing exercises at the end of each chapter, moving from finding funding opportunities ......
Whether you are preparing for a management consultancy career or only want to acquire widely applicable consultancy skills, you will need a clear and concise introduction to this area. This fully updated second edition text provides you with a practical, step-by-step guide to learn the proven successful methods and techniques of the world's leading management consultancy firms. Detailed descriptions and real-life illustrations enable you to develop consultancy skills for structured problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. Additionally, this text provides rich insights into the latest developments in the consultancy industry and their firms. It includes alumnus of a top management consultancy firm and is essential reading for aspiring consultants as well as anyone dealing with consultants in their career.
Looking to start up your own research and evaluation consultancy? For almost 20 years, Gail V. Barrington has run popular workshops to help professional researchers and evaluators determine if they have what it takes to succeed as consultants. This book makes that helpful guidance, and more, available to a wider audience. Barrington shows readers how to get started, set fees, find work, manage time and money, set up an ownership structure and business systems, manage contracts, and work with subcontractors and staff. With Barrington's advice and encouragement, independent practitioners have the roadmap to success! "I would highly recommend it to anyone starting a consulting career. The author has truly singled out the most important lessons to be passed on, both of the practical type and of those related to consultancy."-George Grob, Center for Public Program Evaluation "This book addresses a big and important gap in the evaluation literature. It provides a clear and concise account of what evaluators and applied researchers need to know in order to succeed in independent consulting practice." -Stewart Donaldson, Claremont Graduate University
A Management Survival Guide for the Consulting Wars
Exploring corporate cronyism between executives and their consultants, this work builds a case of how, without proper safeguards, cosy relationships can lead to pervasive problems, placing stockholders, employees, and the future viability of the American corporation at risk. It is useful for corporate managers and those in the consulting business.
