1. The Role of Management
Consultants in New Era
Sorin Caian, Chair ICMCI
2. • Why a New Era?
• Technology, environment, challenges, one
single world with many faces;
• The Crisis changed the attitude towards use
of services, consulting included
• The consultants are not a necessary “evil”.
• Is it a weakness of the profession?
• Let’s see…
The Need
4. • Professionals who can solve complicated
situations or problems, when quality and
speed need to be raised to handle required
change.
• Professionals who help organizations
grow, survive, improve, adapt, and gain
from new opportunities
Consulting
5. • Consultants should bring added value!
• Globalization (not necessary a bad thing),
needs knowledge and understanding of
diversity;
• Re-inventing the wheel is not efficient.
Making mistakes is a learning process?
• Innovation is a must.
• Life is not always like that!
The Need (2)
6. • Most probably is the profession that should
re-invent itself faster than any other;
• Two attributes: professionalism and ethics;
• Communication, presentation and
influencing skills will continue to be the
drivers;
• Specialism will not go without wide
approach;
• Multidisciplinary approach will prevail
The Trend
7. • “Local” Consultant will disappear in the old
format, revitalized in a new shape with at
least regional coverage and international
culture;
• Edge technology will be normal tool;
• The problem is not the IT&C but what you
are making with it! And this is where the
Consultants should best perform!
The Trend (2)
Editor's Notes
2012 was a landmark year for the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI); a year in which it celebrated its 25th anniversary with almost 50 member Institutes
The quality of the consultant depends on his expertise, experience, capabilities and ethics. Education and training are elements, but not sufficient to qualify.
