Overview

Template-driven Consulting is a book for managers who have long been searching for a way to cut costs on expensive external business advice. Every day, new stories of companies that have gone belly up or encounter severe financial troubles show up on the front pages of newspapers across the globe. Cost-cutting is again the most pressing issue in organizations - initiating massive layoffs and large-scale reductions in spending on capital goods. Template-driven Consulting (TDC) allows your company to trim down expenses at another source: external consultants. By drawing on the use of templates, TDC at last really brings about the often cited knowledge transfer from consultants to your employees. Applying TDC, your employees are to become your experts, whilst you will see the number of and cost for external consultants decrease tremendously! This book, with its clear structure and hands-on approach, lets you understand the new methodology and will help you in reaping its cost benefits in your company. It provides you all the necessary insights into how consultants are working at your company and how they should be so as not to burn cash by the hour. TDC puts you in the driver's seat and gives you a cutting-edge advantage: empowering your own employees to deliver consulting work usually done by high-priced externals. Template-driven Consulting shows you what you can expect from consultants. Besides, several case studies lay open how business could gain a long-term competitive advantage by applying the TDC methodology.

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Author:   Uwe G. Seebacher
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642072666

ISBN 10:   3642072666
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Executive Summary Template-driven Consulting: A Concise Overview.- The Approach.- The Methodology.- The Benefits of TDC.- The Bottom Line.- 1 Template-driven Consulting: An Introduction.- The Origins of TDC.- Description of TDC.- Background of TDC.- Objective of this Book.- Approach of the 13ook.- Benefits for the Reader.- 2 A Managerial Evaluation of the Consulting Market.- The Contingency Situation.- Overview and Evaluation of Key Industries.- Convergence as a Driving Force.- Overview in the Consulting Industry.- The Changing Consulting Industry.- 3 The Changing Business Environment.- Increasing Transparency.- Boundaryless Networking.- Increasing Intangibility of Knowledae.- Growing Cost Pressure.- Increasing Resistance Towards Consultancy.- Small Is Beautiful.- Trust and Personality versus Brand.- Quality for Fair Price.- Facilitation versus Delivery.- 4 The Learning Dimension of TDC.- Historical Perspective and Early Approaches.- Theoretical Background.- Cognitive Social Learning — Core to TDC.- Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Its Impact on TDC.- The Individual’s Learning Perspective.- Templates and Linked Learning Typologies.- Challenges of Template-driven Learning.- Advantages of Template-based Learning.- Template-based Learning and Consulting.- 5 The Process Perspective of TDC.- Temnlate-driven Conculting: The flefinition.- The Core Stens of Fverv Cnrcultino Process.- Conventional Consulting Processes.- Kecent Lonsuiting Paradigm Shifts.- Template-driven Consulting — The Four Phases.- 6 The Tool Dimension of TDC.- Definition of Templates.- Historical Development of Templates.- Key Elements of Efficient Templates.- Development Path of Templates.- Typology of Templates and Different Types.- 7 The Required Skills Triad.- Abstraction Ability.- Dual-level Coaching.- Generic Process Thinking.- 8 Case Study: Elastogran GmbH.- TDC in the Area of Innovation Management.- Descrintion of the Client.- The Contingency Situation.- Problem Definition and Understanding.- Process Evolvement and Abstraction.- Template Generation.- Project Work Implementation.- Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results.- 9 Case Study: Deloitte Consulting.- TDC in the Area of Process Reengineering.- Description of the Client.- The Contingency Situation.- Problem Definition and Understanding.- Process Evolvement and Abstraction.- Template Generation.- Project Work Implementation.- Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results.- 10 Case Study: Allianz Group.- TDC in the Area of Organizational Development.- Description of the Client.- The Contingency Situation.- Problem Definition and Understanding.- Process Evolvement and Abstraction.- Temnlate Generatinn.- Project Work Implementation.- Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results.- The Future.- Resume.- 11 The Benefits of TDC.- Decreasing Exnendifuures.- Process Thinking.- Knowledge Transfer.- Focus on Teams and Teamwork.- Overcoming Shortsightedness and Departmental Thinking.- Motivation of Employees.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.

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From the reviews: Template-driven Consulting is a well-researched book that provides a good general overview of the consulting industry, its major markets, and the management challenges facing both, and it makes many sensible comments on how individuals learn. (Fiona Czerniawska, Consulting to Management (www.c2m.com), Vol. 15 (3), September, 2004)

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