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

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

External links 

 Consulting, Cambridge Dictionary
 What is consulting?, Consultancy.eu
 Consulting Definition, Lawinsider.com
 Global Management Consulting Community

 
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