Back in September 2008, We started Consulting Network with one simple goal. “To make Consulting Network a knowledge sharing and networking platform for both aspiring and practicing consultants”. Two years hence and with over 1500 registered members, countless email subscriptions and a dedicated fan following on Facebook and Twitter, we think we have climbed...

Sir William Shakespeare, without a shadow of a doubt, was one of the greatest poet/writer of his time.  I can’t help but wonder though, what if he were a consultant in the year 2010? Would his clients get mesmerized reading his flawless presentations? Or get so engrossed in his carefully knitted reports that they increase the “out of pocket expenses (OPE)” or...

[This is a guest post from Florian Hollender at KillerConsultant.com, Killer Consultant is a leading resource for young consultants] Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” ) Business travel arguably is an art of its own. Some love it, some hate it....

Any job, no matter how minuscule, is tough. Consulting is no exception. In fact, most people will tell you that Consulting is as tough a job as a job can be. Most people get into consulting with one of the two broad aims, Money and Knowledge.  As you spend more time in Consulting you realize that money and knowledge and smartly entwined with each other. In any top notch...

Networking is a buzz word that is so common that hardly a day goes by in the corporate world before someone mentions it. Companies such as LinkedIn, Ning etc. are cashing in on the craze, its obvious that everyone wants to network and understandably so, having a strong network helps one find that coveted job, expand one’s knowledge and even get new business. I am...

So, you want to be a consultant? That’s the question i asked a friend (a MBA graduate from a tier -2 business school in India) when he told that he was contemplating a shift to consulting.  He had his basics right, however, no matter how hard he tried he could not land that coveted consulting job offer. Last week, i sat down with him to grill down the reasons behind...

A project timeline is a central component in any good project management strategy. But as many management consultants have learned the hard way, creating and sticking to a timeline is not as easy as it sounds. Depending on the type of consulting engagement, many project elements – from people to technology to operational and market factors — can generate unexpected...

My, how our dictionary has changed. Podcast, Skype, Wikipedia, Googlebot and WiMax were all regularly used terms during 2005. VoIP, WiFi, Blog, iPod, and SEO are in every day vocabularies. By the way, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization just in case youre uninformed like the vast majority of the populace, and I believe Podcast was Websters Word of The Year for 2005. That...

These days a top MBA is almost a prerequisite in order to reach senior or even mid-management levels at many of the major consulting firms. The leading strategy consultancies in particular have redoubled their recruiting efforts: McKinsey hired over five hundred MBAs in 2005 and this figure was set to rise in 2006; Booz Allen Hamilton, BCG, Bain and IBM Consulting all...

The public is mad as hell at AIG (and other recipients of Federal bailouts) who have handed out lucrative retention bonuses. One might wonder, are incentives appropriate in such difficult times? It is not incentives that are on trial; it is distribution of bonuses when a company is performing poorly that is so infuriating. At a time where companies are facing...