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Conducting the Assignment

B. H. Elvy

Chapter 7 in How to Become a Consultant, 1993, pp 81-90 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In planning the conduct of the assignment, you will need to take account of the following essential factors: 1. Your terms of reference should be sufficiently wide to enable you to carry out all the activities necessarily involved in the project and should be understood by all the client’s management and staff operating in those areas of the company affected by the assignment. 2. The objectives of the project should be clearly defined. 3. You will need a programme of proposed activity that is subject to a time budget, together with a system for monitoring the progress of the assignment. 4. At the fact-gathering stage, good working relationships will need to be developed with both executive and non-executive members of the client firm’s personnel. 5. Throughout the course of the assignment, it will be necessary to draw members of the client’s DMU (decision-making unit) into the consultative process to ensure their cooperation and understanding of the nature of the problem being addressed and of the possible solutions that may be applied.

Keywords: Time Budget; Firm Audit; Senior Executive; Proposed Activity; Client Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13090-0_7

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