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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Consultancy"”.
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Client perceived value in quality consultancy relationships
… to client contacts who had experienced ISO 9000 consultancy, together with a key incident survey of satisfying and dissatisfying incidents. Customer service research provides an analysis of customer perceived value within a service exchange (Zeithaml et al, 1990; Ghobadian et al, 1994; Patterson …
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Walking the tightrope: a case study of a consultancy.
… to explore some questions about the nature of consultancy, the client organization and interactions between consultant and client that can make the journey akin to a tightrope walk – sometimes smooth and relatively uneventful, though still requiring considerable skill, at other times fraught …
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Management Consultancy As Practice: A Study Of The Duality Of The Management Consultants' Role
… conflicting demands of their client-facing and consultancy-facing roles on management consultants, how conflicts arise and how they are managed. The substantive aim was to build on and extend existing studies of duality and bring a new perspective to academic knowledge relating to management …
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Ecodesign - Present Attitudes and Future Directions: Studies of UK company and design consultancy practice
Environmental degradation and concepts of 'sustainability' have recently become a focus of political, commercial and social concern. This thesis addresses one of the issues concerning human impact on the environment, namely the environmental awareness and action of those involved with design and …
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Dynamics of Organizational Populations - An Ecological Analysis of the Corporate Identity Consultancy in Shenzhen, China
… forms, in the context of corporate identity consultancy in Shenzhen, China. The empirical setting is significantly different from existing organizational studies, in that the population under observation is constructed following the recently developed fuzzy-set theory. Fuzzy-set concept is …
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A project report on business development and consultancy service unit. A case study established at TCCIA coast region
… economy, the need for Business Development and Consultancy Service is crucial to business members in carrying out their daily business transactions. The TCCIA Coast Region revealed the necessity to have such Services Unit after needs assessment sessions conducted by the Regional Officials, …
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Implementing strategy using the Kotter 8-Step change process : a case study in a large consultancy firm in Iceland
… with the 8-step Kotter process at a large consultancy firm in Iceland. The focus of the study is to evaluate the factors that have been successful in the process and what factors could be better. A qualitative case study was conducted to observe how the 8-step Kotter process was used to …
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Digitalisierung der Unternehmensberatung – Analyse von Beratungsschulen und Digitalisierungspotenzialen
… and the therefor necessary digitalisation of consultancy services, in order to ensure and develop the efficacy, profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability of companies and organisations. This dissertation analyses forms of management consultancy - the theories from a client and …
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Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice
… leading Irish BSE practices.Scholarship in BSE consultancy practice is limited, particularly in engineering management, and although this inquiry is a means of advancing knowledge, it also serves as a disciplined and systematic procedure by shedding a new light on managerial effectiveness, …
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Understanding account management in professional services relationships. Conceptualising a value framework of account management from client and professional perspective in the audit, tax and management consultancy industry.
… relationships in the audit, tax and management consultancy industry, contextualising the nature and value of account management through client and professional perspectives. It addresses the challenges of embedding the account management role in the firm as a role of the professional or a …
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The story behind the output: Enhancing transparency in design research through flexible and adapted strategies
… the same kind of transparency strategies in the consultancy context. With this in mind, the exploration began by questioning: are transparency strategies currently being applied in the design consultancy world? If so, how? If not, why not? and how could design researchers be helped to do so? The …
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Developing a customisation blueprint for management consultancies to better serve their clients.
… find out what matters to clients when purchasing consultancy, how clients substantiate this and how it affects their decision-making. This study also seeks to establish if the factors influencing buyer’s evaluation of the consultant can be favourably influenced by the consultants. By fulfilling …
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An autoethnography of an education consultant in Greece
… conferences to setting up and running a consultancy in Greece. This research highlights the contradictions and obstacles faced by the Education Consultant and provides a set of actions which could be the basis for initiating standards of Education Consultancy recognized locally and …
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Exploring the identity of an embedded micro-consultant in an organisation change environment
Micro-consultants are from small independent consultancy practices; who sometimes work directly with a single client on embedded assignments. Embedded microconsultants operate within the ambiguous and fragmented environments of their client’s. Micro-consultants have to quickly make sense of their …
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In search of the whole story: a reconstruction of organisational communication
… of a global conglomerate leader in engineering consultancy focused on corporate storytelling in the workplace, this document provides insight into how interpretation and misunderstanding are shared. This thesis grows out of awareness that, over the past five years or so, the way in which an …
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Large-scale grid-connected renewable energy in Australia: Potential barriers, strategies and policy support mechanisms that may affect RE development from the perspective of energy specialists at a leading consultancy operating in the built environment in Australia
… energy division of a leading global engineering consultancy operating in Australia. The participants of the study included the senior management staff in the renewable energy division of the company. Standard open-ended interviews were conducted. The data was analysed by employing a method of …
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A critical study of the use of an evaluation model designed to measure the outcomes and impact of development interventions
… conducted by a socio-economic development consultancy situated in Cape Town. This meta-evaluation process was based upon four evaluation quality or ‘trustworthiness’ criteria proposed by Guba and Lincoln (1989); namely, credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. These …
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The utilisation of social and behavioural science through consulting.
… role situations, and not just to treat consultancy as the disembodied application of skills and knowledge. Consultants' ideas and practices can thereby be viewed in relation to their role-contexts, and can be seen as adapted to specific operating situations, particularly in the …
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Adoption of advanced management accounting practices in Gulf Cooperation Council countries : insights from institutional theory analysis
… practices. Of all the factors considered, the consultancy industry was found to have the most and a high level of influence on adoption decisions whilst other factors were moderately influential. Top management support was the highest facilitating role in advanced MAPs adoption, followed by the …
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