High-Performance Consulting: Implementation Gaps in Consulting and Their Solutions

Author: [USA] Schaffer
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Most consulting projects are implemented in a destined-to-fail manner. If you accept expert advice, whether from internal employees or consulting firms, you can find suggestions to increase high-return opportunities in this book. Outsourcing your brain, hiring consultants is also an investment activity for businesses. Businesses not only invest substantial consulting fees but also dedicate significant time and effort from various levels of management. Businesses must focus on the return on investment of consulting activities, and this book tells businesses how to collaborate with consulting firms and how to more effectively derive benefits from consulting activities, making it worth reading for all managers.
The current state of most consulting projects is that businesses spend a fortune, consulting firms put in their hearts and efforts, yet the results are far from ideal. There is a critical issue in this process called the "implementation gap." Consultants should ensure that their recommendations are both implementable and desirable for the business, so that consulting can truly achieve its intended effect. This book reveals how the "implementation gap" affects the effectiveness of consulting and proposes a results-driven consulting approach, which the author calls high-performance consulting. This approach has been applied in some of the world's most successful organizations, including General Electric, Motorola, Bell Labs, and the World Bank.