Management consulting supplier

Suppliers of management consulting can be divided into two levels: data providers and solution providers. The former provides first-hand data resources for the analysis and processing of consulting companies, forming relatively perfect consulting suggestions; The latter is a senior supplier, providing intellectual resources directly, making suggestions or final reports. First-class suppliers include: customer information, basic data company information, national statistical agency information, various media, etc. Their systematic information is the basis and basis of analysis. These suppliers provide different levels of "raw materials", which can be roughly divided into three levels:

(1) The original data obtained from customers through investigation, or the statistical data provided by users themselves, are the most valuable, and are often directly quoted in the consulting report, which is the most powerful data to support the consulting report.

(2) Basic data companies are not very popular in China, but very common abroad. These companies specialize in collecting and counting all kinds of basic data and materials and selling them to demanders as products; The information of statistical agencies in various countries is generally authoritative, especially the background information about population, geography and industry environment is more convincing. Generally, these two kinds of data need to be paid, so they are quite accurate (even if part of the information of the national statistical agency is free, it is authoritative and accurate), and the source can also be directly quoted in the consulting report.

(3) The reliability of data provided by various media will be greatly reduced, and it can only be used as reference materials, so as to avoid direct quotation in the consulting report and avoid mistakes in the consulting scheme due to data errors.

Generally speaking, (1) and (2) are reliable, but at a certain cost. Therefore, we must carefully select the required data range to avoid unnecessary cost increase. The fourth generation management consulting represented by micro-consulting network is characterized by group supply. With the help of video conference and telephone conference, we can quickly respond to the fundamental needs of customers and integrate many expert resources as the main body to realize convenient and efficient consulting services; The characteristics of micro-consultation are online, small-sized, targeted, short and fast, more reasonable, more practical and more effective. The category of suppliers has broken through the narrow group of full-time practitioners and attracted more responsible corporate executives to participate. Including Dr. Hampton Consulting, Vice President of Lenovo Group, Dr. Gao, Senior Vice President of Xinhua Letter, Mr. Peng, former President of AMT Consulting and President of Winner Consulting, and many other state-owned and private enterprise executives. Group suppliers are not attracted by a single interest to engage in micro-consulting activities, but pay more attention to the help that existing knowledge brings to demanders, and are more driven by a value that helps the world.