Trends in Management Consulting: The rise of internal management consulting groups

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At first glance, this topic may not look like anythingfirst) and less ramp up time on a project due to its
new to you; nor to me. After all, it is a routine factfamiliarity with the corporation, internal consulting
that today hire many corporations hire businessgroups also ensure that vital corporate information is
consultants all the time. I’m guessing, as wenot leaked out and is kept private. Moreover, the
speak someone out there has hired a consultant fortime and material cost of internal consultants is
an outside perspective of a specific business matter.significantly less than external consultants operating in
Over the years, an endless number of companiesthe same capacity. But the crucial difference lies in
have outsourced this task to specialists. But in recentthe fact that, unlike external consultants, the job of
times, an important change in the industry has beenthe internal management consulting team does not
the spin-off or separation of the consulting units ofend with the mere presentation of the business
large diversified firms. Although an initially expensivesolution. They are equally are involved in the
proposition, the long term benefits of setting up suchmonitoring and implementation of their
a group eventually out-weighs the cost. Theserecommendations.
corporations have set up their own internal consultingHowever, there is always a flip side to everything
groups, hiring internal management consultants eithergood. The most important limitation of internal
from within the corporation or from external firmsmanagement consulting groups’ lies in the
employees. Many corporations have internal groups offact that they fail to bring the
as many as 25 to 30 full-time consultants catering to‘objectivity’ factor to the table s
functional areas such as organizational development,well as the best practices from other corporations
process management, information technology, designlike an external consultant can. Moreover though, it is
services, training, and development.often difficult to accurately measure the true costs
But before a corporation steps into the task ofand benefits of an internal consulting group. Last but
creating its own internal management consultingnot least, these groups pose an obstacle to the
group, they need to be conscious of and consistentHuman Resource department as well as the level of
with how this internal cost is accounted for on both acompensation in the consulting industry is high, it
project and organizational level. At the end of thebecomes difficult to attract good talent.
day, it needs to be cost effectiveness as well asAbout US
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these internal groups are capable of evaluating theBusiness consulting, advertisement plan consulting,
engagement on projects in sync with themarketing plan consulting, Brand name consulting,
corporation’s strategic and tacticalgrowth plan consulting and sales plan consulting.
objectives. Besides the low degree of dichotomy in