How to explain the consultation?

Consulting is a comprehensive research and development through the knowledge and experience stored in some people's minds and the comprehensive processing of various information materials. Consulting produces the comprehensive benefits of intellectual labor and plays the role of consultant, staff officer and external brain for decision makers. Latin consultation means consultation, which means discussion and consultation. In ancient China, "consultation" and "inquiry" were originally two words, namely, consultation and inquiry. Later, they gradually formed a compound word with the meanings of inquiry, planning and consultation. As a social activity with personnel and services, it has developed in military, political and economic fields, and has become an important means to assist decision-making in social, economic and political activities, and has gradually formed an applied soft science.