IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-13090-0_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Conducting the Assignment

In: How to Become a Consultant

Author

Listed:
  • B. H. Elvy

Abstract

In planning the conduct of the assignment, you will need to take account of the following essential factors: 1. Your terms of reference should be sufficiently wide to enable you to carry out all the activities necessarily involved in the project and should be understood by all the client’s management and staff operating in those areas of the company affected by the assignment. 2. The objectives of the project should be clearly defined. 3. You will need a programme of proposed activity that is subject to a time budget, together with a system for monitoring the progress of the assignment. 4. At the fact-gathering stage, good working relationships will need to be developed with both executive and non-executive members of the client firm’s personnel. 5. Throughout the course of the assignment, it will be necessary to draw members of the client’s DMU (decision-making unit) into the consultative process to ensure their cooperation and understanding of the nature of the problem being addressed and of the possible solutions that may be applied.

Suggested Citation

  • B. H. Elvy, 1993. "Conducting the Assignment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: How to Become a Consultant, chapter 7, pages 81-90, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13090-0_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13090-0_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13090-0_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.