# 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

## Certifications

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