High-Impact Consulting - How Clients And Consultants Can Work Together To Achieve Extraordinary Results (Hardcover, Completely Revised and Updated)

Even though corporate clients continue to spend millions of dollars on consultant-based solutions, the success rate of these high-priced remedies is far from what it should be. No matter how wise and creative the input of a consultant, says Robert H. Schaffer, it will pay off only if the client does what is necessary to benefit from the advice. But often there's a big "implementation gap" between what client's must do to make a project succeed and what they are actually able and willing to do.
In this new and revised edition of the landmark book "High-Impact Consulting," Robert H. Schaffer reveals how senior managers unwittingly collude with their consultants to perpetuate the great waste inherent in "the five fatal flaws of conventional consulting." Drawing on his own work with companies-- Motorola, Rio Tinto, IBM, General Reinsurance Corporation, The World Bank, and other successful organizations-- Schaffer offers a field-tested approach to working with consultants that has proven to get results. He identifies the key elements of an effective project design?particularly that project objectives are defined in terms of client results rather than just consultant deliverables. The process enables clients to be certain that the work is carried out in ways that ensure success.
The author explains the importance of accomplishing results quickly and then using these "rapid-cycle wins" as vehicles for sharpening management skills, strengthening work disciplines, and introducing new technology. In addition he tells managers and consultants how they can build on these early successes and tackle larger accomplishments and organization wide improvements.
This thoroughly updatededition features valuable new insights and illustrative cases. It also includes a wealth of practical new tools that make the book a user-friendly, quick reference for both client managers and their consultants.

General

Imprint:	Jossey Bass Wiley
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2002
First published:	March 2002
Authors:	Robert H. Schaffer
Dimensions:	238 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	Completely Revised and Updated
ISBN-13:	978-0-7879-6049-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Consultancy & grants for businesses Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General Books > Varsity Textbooks Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Business & Economics Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Business Management Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Management Promotions Books > Academic & Education > UNISA > Business & Economics Books > Academic & Education > UNISA > Business Management Books > Academic & Education > UNISA > Management
LSN:	0-7879-6049-7
Barcode:	9780787960490
Course Code:	ICT2641

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