Over the past few decades, branch specific associations and analysts have developed various definitions in order to categories the diverse types of business consultants. According to the approach used by Kennedy Information, they can be divided into six core types of consultants:
1) Strategy Consultant: Focus on strategic topics like corporate and organizational strategy, economic policy, government policy and functional strategy.
2) Management Consultant: Focus on all sorts of organizational concerns, from strategy to a variety of elements within management.
3) Operations Consultant: Focus on improving the performance of business operations.
4) Financial Advisory Consultant: Focus on financial capabilities and analytical capabilities.
5) Human Resource Consultant: Focus on improving the performance of the HR department.
6) IT Consultant: Focus on helping clients with the development and application of Information Technology (IT).