Outline of consulting

See also: Consultant

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to consulting:

Consulting is the activity or business of giving expert assistance on a particular subject, notably to other professionals but also to the consumer market. The following outline provides a general overview of consulting.

Overview

See also: Alternative employment arrangements

• Coaching
• Contingent work
  • Freelancer
  • Gig worker
  • Temporary work
• Division of labour
• Employment agency
• Focus group
• Knowledge worker
  • Knowledge as a service
• Professional services network^[1]
  • Professional corporation
• Service provider
  • Service-level agreement
• White-collar worker
  • White shoe firm

Types

• Biotechnology consulting
• Economic consulting
• Energy consulting
• Engineering consulting
• Environmental consulting
• Faculty consulting
• Franchise consulting
• Human resource consulting
• Information technology consulting
  • Data as a service
  • Data virtualization
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library
• Management consulting^[2]
• Political consulting
• Public consultation
• Public sector consulting
• Trial consulting

Concepts

• Action plan
• Business case
• Business reporting
• Capacity planning
  • Production planning
• Change management
• Compound annual growth rate
• Critical path method
• Deliverable
• Design structure matrix
• Ethics in business communication
• Feedback
• High- and low-level
• Information market
• Leverage (finance)
• Mind map
• Organic growth
• Organizational intelligence
  • Organizational diagnostics
• Performance indicator
• Presentation slide
• Scenario planning^[3]
• Scope (project management)
• Top-down and bottom-up design
• Utilization rate
• Zero Defects

Formats

See also: Primary labor market

• Enterprise legal management
• Enterprise resource planning
  • Business process modelling
    • Business process re-engineering
    • Business reference model
  • Enterprise architecture framework
  • Manufacturing resource planning
• Professional services
  • Business valuation
  • Governance, risk management, and compliance
    • Expert determination
    • Risk and strategic consulting
    • Risk assessment
  • Settlement (finance)
  • Strategy
• Subject-matter expert

Services

• Corporate services
  • Actuary^[4]
  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Corporate finance
    • Leveraged buyout
    • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Recruitment
• Corporate sustainability
• Financial services
  • Accounting
    • Assurance services
    • Environmental accounting
    • Financial accounting
    • Governmental accounting
  • Advisor
  • Audit
    • Financial audit
    • Management audit
    • Performance audit
  • Investment management
  • Liquidation
  • Wealth management
• Outsourcing
  • Business process outsourcing
• Professional network service
  • Business networking
  • Multidisciplinary professional services networks
• Research and development
  • Business analysis
  • Research and development agreement

Occupations

• Business consultant
• Consultant (medicine)
• Creative consultant
• Educational consultant
• Elevator consultant
• Employment consultant
• Foreclosure consultant
• Legal nurse consultant
• Loss-control consultant
• Media consultant
• Medical practice consultants
• Process consultant
• Sustainability consultant

Glossary

• Benchmarking
• Best practice
• Bird's-eye view
• Board of directors
• Business-to-business
• Competitive intelligence
• Core competency
• Direct-to-consumer
• Due diligence
• Elevator pitch
• End of day
• Gantt chart
• Greenfield investment
• Mission critical
• Opportunity cost
• Pareto principle
• Professional conduct
• Scope creep
• Sea change (idiom)
• Value added

Frameworks

See also: Business model

• Balanced scorecard
• Boston Consulting Group's Advantage Matrix
• Growth–share matrix
• Managerial grid model
• McKinsey 7S Framework
• MECE principle
• OGSM
• PEST analysis
• Porter's five forces analysis
• Quality control
• Strategic Grid Model
• SWOT analysis
• Viability study

Notable firms

Main article: Consulting firm

See also: Big Four accounting firms and Big Three (management consultancies)

• Accenture
• Bain & Company
• Boston Consulting Group
• Capgemini
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• Grant Thornton International
• IBM Consulting
• Infosys
  • Infosys Consulting
• KPMG
• McKinsey & Company
• PwC
  • Strategy&
• WSP Global

Professional bodies

• Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand
• Conference of Consulting Actuaries
• Institute of Consulting
• Institute of Management Consultants USA
• International Council of Management Consulting Institutes
• International Federation of Consulting Engineers

Certifications

• Certified Consulting Meteorologist
• Certified management consultant
• Certified mortgage consultant
• Chartered financial consultant

See also

• Consulting psychology
• List of business terms
• List of former consulting firms
• List of IT consulting firms
• List of life sciences
• List of management consulting firms
• List of university statistical consulting centers
• Outline of accounting
• Outline of business
• Outline of management
• Tertiary sector of the economy

References

1. "Customer Retention, Purchasing Behavior and Relationship Substance in Professional Services". ScienceDirect.
2. Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession. International Labour Office. 2002.
3. "A review of scenario planning literature" (PDF). Science Impact (MIT).
4. "Extreme value theory in actuarial consulting: windstorm losses in central Europe" (PDF).

External links

• Consulting, Cambridge Dictionary
• What is consulting?, Consultancy.eu
• Consulting Definition, Lawinsider.com
• Elevator Consultant, Consultant.co
• Global Management Consulting Community
• Management Consulting Insights