Description
Management Consultancy for Innovation
Author: Williams Christopher
Language: EnglishSubjects for Management Consultancy for Innovation:
Keywords
Virtual Breeding Environment; management consulting; UK Community Innovation Survey; consultancy industry; HRM Practice; business innovation; Consultant Virtualization; forms of capital; Reflective Practice; human capital; Literature Review; social capital; Internal Consultancy Units; organizational capital; National Innovation Systems; consultancy firms; Innovation Radar; UK Government Department; Management Consultancy Firms; Professional Services Firms; Reflective Ability; Virtual Organization; KIBS Provider; Structural Dynamism; Virtual Team; Shakedown Phase; Knowledge Management Capacity; Soft Paradigm; SME Network; Hard Paradigm; Social Interaction Ties; Aid Awareness Campaign
Publication date: 07-2019
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 07-2019
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
Description
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This book provides a new perspective on innovation in consultancy firms. Focusing on how consultancy firms can innovate in the modern era, it exposes and discusses key drivers for innovation in the industry. These are broken down into 5 dimensions - or ?Poles? - relating to forms of capital (human capital, social capital, and three types of organizational capital) that consultancy firms can use in order to innovate, both for themselves and for their clients.
Readers of this book will not only gain insight into the "innovative consultancy" from the perspective of each of these Poles. They will also discover how consultancy firms need to find the right way of connecting these Poles together in order to produce the desired innovation. Readers will learn about the dangers of misaligning the Poles, as well as implications of innovative consultancy for ethics, academic research in the field of consultancy, and for careers. In addition to the academic literature, the book draws from real-world examples, cases and practice insights from various parts of the world.
This book will be of great use to those interested in pursuing a career in the consultancy industry, whether they are undergraduate and postgraduate Business & Management students, students not necessarily studying in Business Schools, or others seeking a career move into consultancy. It will also be valuable to seasoned consultants and managers of consultancy firms seeking new ideas on how to develop innovative capabilities in an increasingly competitive industry.
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Pole 1: Human Capital. 3. Pole 2: Social Capital. 4. Pole 3: Consultant Virtualization. 5. Pole 4: Disruption in the Consultancy Life-Cycle. 6. Pole 5: Reflective Ability in Consultancy. 7. Connecting the Poles to form the Innovative Consultancy. 8. Implications of the Innovative Consultancy. 9. Concluding Remarks. Appendix – Cases of Innovation in Management Consultancy. References. Index
Christopher Williams is Reader in Management at Durham University Business School, UK. His publications include academic research in a range of journals, over 25 teaching cases and the book Venturing in International Firms: Contexts and Cases in a High-Tech World (Routledge, 2018)