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... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Consultants Corporate strategy Jim Collins Managerial strategy Article Type: Abstracts From: Strategic Direction, Volume 25, Issue 7 Reingold J. Fortune, 2 February 2009, Vol. 159 No. 2, Start page: 31, No. of pages...

... comments and places the articles in context. Findings The managing partner of a consultancy gives a personal overview of the current backlash against questionable ethics employed by some consultancies Practical implications Provides strategic insights and practical thinking...

... successful but due to overstretching resources, were failing to make payroll each week. Like those who ignore the first signs of illness and do not consult a doctor, those involved ignored the symptoms and stood around and waited for their companies to disintegrate. Practical implications...

... Is a change as good as a rest? For Accenture it was much better than that. As Andersen Consulting, the company was already hugely successful. But an effective program of rebranding, repositioning and financial restructuring has helped expand operations and cement its position as the world’s...

... External consultants are often disparaged because of their language; they just cannot stop using words that do not exist. In fact, consultants regularly use so much jargon in conversation that some people think they are speaking in a foreign tongue. Consultants Management consultants Clients...

... The consultant who boasted about how much he got paid and how good his perks were to company employees facing redundancy may have been good at the technical side of his job, but his people skills obviously needed some attention. This was just one of the stories about consultants to emerge from...