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Consulting Summit – Chicago – 5 May 2011

Jenny Sutton — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:49:19 +0000

In May we will be speaking at Consulting Magazine’s Consulting Summit on the topic of What Clients Want. This event should be an interesting opportunity to discuss the status and future of the consulting industry with some of the leaders of the big consulting firms.

Business Book of the Month in Singapore

Jenny Sutton — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:53:20 +0000

Our book is now on sale in Singapore, where it is being promoted as the Business Book of the Month for January. Apparently sales are going well!

Book Review in Consulting Magazine

Jenny Sutton — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:34:42 +0000

Consulting magazine’s Book It! section highlights new books either written by or for those in management consulting.

Each issue, editors choose four recently released books to review. We were delighted to see that “Extract Value from Consultants: How to Hire, Control, and Fire Them” was one of the books selected for this month’s edition – check it out.

About Consulting magazine

Consulting magazine is the flagship publication of the consulting profession. The magazine features the latest information on consulting careers, thought leadership, and corporate strategies.

Consulting magazine organizes the twice annual Consulting Summit – the largest gatherings of consulting leadership in North America. It hosts award dinners as part of the Consulting magazine Achievement Awards series – including dinners honoring Women Leaders in Consulting, The Top 25 Consultants and The Best Small Firms to Work For.

The magazine is published six times annually by BNA Subsidiaries, LLC (“BNA Subs”) d/b/a Kennedy Information, the authority in the consulting space since 1970 providing a wide range of research and advisory services offerings.

Extract Value from Consultants now available in Singapore

Jenny Sutton — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:43:10 +0000

If you are in Singapore, you can now purchase a copy of our book at Kinokuniya, MPH, Popular or Times News.

Will Canada become the first country to regulate management consulting?

Jenny Sutton — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:34:20 +0000

In the wake of a recent report by the Auditor General of Ontario, Canada, the Ontario Government has introduced Bill 122 which will allow increased government oversight of hospitals, local health integration networks and other government-funded bodies in relation to consultants and expense reimbursements to consultants and staff. The bill provides the government with the authority to make procurement directives, such as mandating competitive procurements and the adoption of codes of ethics. Hospitals and LHINs will also have to submit reports on their use of consultants, along with attestations about their organization’s compliance with the new legislation; executives’ pay may be reduced if they fail to comply.

The Ontario chapter of the Certified Management Consulting Association of Canada made a presentation to the Ontario government standing committee committee arguing that the bill, although a welcome step to introduce financial transparency into government organisations, does not sufficiently clarify or define the term consultant, and doesn’t differentiate between management consultants and other types of consultants (medical, financial, engineering etc), contractors and “certified” management consultants.

They have a valid point – qualified accountants have a professional designation and have been certified by an industry body. Likewise doctors, lawyers and other professional service providers. Yet management consultants are able to refer to what they do as a professional service, without having any accreditation to show for it.

Is is time for regulators to start playing a role in shaping the industry into one where professional standards are set and followed by defining the term “management consultant” and requiring individuals practicing in this field to pass an exam and / or an internship process to become qualified? This would also carry the implication that qualified individuals (or companies they work for) who violate the industry code of ethics could be stripped of their accreditation.

Ontario Government Needs a Better Plan for Getting Value from Consultants (extractvaluefromconsultants.com)
Audit calls Ontario hospitals wasteful spenders (ctv.ca)