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. Alternative employment arrangements 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 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 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 Primary labor market 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 Corporate services Actuary Clinical pharmacology Corporate finance Leveraged bu

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Professional services

Professional services are occupations in the service sector requiring special training in liberal arts and pure sciences education or professional development education. Some professional services, such as architects, accountants, engineers, doctors, and lawyers require the practitioner to hold professional degrees or licenses and possess specific skills. Other professional services involve providing specialist business support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors; this can include tax advice, supporting a company with accounting, IT services, public relations services or providing management services.

Accenture

Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A Fortune Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accenture's current clients include 91 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. , Accenture is considered the largest consulting firm in the world by number of employees. Julie Sweet has served as CEO of Accenture since 1 September 2019.

Consultant

A consultant (from consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as expert, specialist, see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations). Consulting services generally fall under the domain of professional services, as contingent work. The Harvard Business School defines a consultant as someone who advises on "how to modify, proceed in, or streamline a given process within a specialized field".

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté, Alain Wegmann

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

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From Business Services to IT Services by Capturing Design Decisions

Claude Petitpierre, Alain Wegmann

The main goals of any service-oriented design include flexible support and adaptability of business services and improved business-IT alignment. The existing approaches, however, have failed to fully meet these goals. One of the major reasons for this defi ...

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