Outline of consulting
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
- Coaching
- Contingent work
- * Freelancer
- * Gig worker
- * Temporary work
- Division of labour
- Employment agency
- Focus group
- Knowledge worker
- * Knowledge as a service
- Professional services network
- * 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
- 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
- Scope (project management)
- Top-down and bottom-up design
- Utilization rate
- Zero Defects
Formats
- 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
- * 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
- 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
- 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