What is the origin of consulting industry?

Consulting originated in Britain, and there was a consulting industry in Britain from 65438 to 0800. Enterprise management consulting originated from the United States 65438-0895. As an "efficiency" consulting engineer, Taylor is engaged in an intelligent and professional social occupation, which is now enterprise management consulting. Before the 1940s, the field of management consulting services had some limitations, mainly serving the improvement of production site, operational research, rationalization suggestions of production technology and accounting business. After World War II, with the application of operational research, system engineering, enterprise management and other disciplines in management, especially in the last decade, due to the rapid development of science and technology and the wide application of computers, the service scope of enterprise management consulting has been expanding. According to the actual needs of enterprises, there are both comprehensive consultation and specific thematic consultation. New breakthroughs have also been made in the methods and techniques of consultation and diagnosis. Not only traditional management techniques such as homework method research and time observation are applied, but also new quantitative management techniques such as computers and psychological tests are widely used.

With the rapid development of enterprise management consulting industry in the world, full-time institutions have been established, usually called consulting engineers association and consulting enterprises association. In addition, there are more advanced comprehensive consulting institutions called "think tanks", "think tanks" and "brain enterprises". In recent years, the emergence of the Federation of Consulting Associations has made the consulting industry form a certain scale system network from domestic to international, ensured the quality, credibility and status of consulting results, facilitated the exchange of information and experience, and consolidated and expanded the consulting scope.

Enterprise management consulting in China is a new undertaking after the reform and opening up. China Enterprise Management Association introduces enterprise management consulting from Japan, and sends 20-30 managers with practical experience to Japan to study the theory and technology of management consulting every year. At the same time, the Japanese production headquarters also sends 10-20 consultants to hold consulting training courses in China every year. With the support of superior leaders, this consulting team has been growing, which has made the business of enterprise management consulting develop rapidly in China. All provinces and cities have set up full-time institutions to carry out consultation closely around the central work of enterprise reform.