Management consulting company is to fundamentally improve the quality of enterprise, improve the operating mechanism of enterprises and enhance the dynamic adaptability of enterprises to the environment. From a deeper level, it is not only to directly improve the economic benefits and management level, but more importantly, for an enterprise, whether its survival and development depend on whether the enterprise can form a correct and adaptable operating mechanism. Therefore, the fundamental purpose of management consulting is to enable this enterprise to find problems directly through the management system, find out the reasons, constantly optimize the enterprise management mechanism, and make the whole enterprise run in a virtuous circle.
Basic procedures of management consulting company
There are basic procedures for management consulting, and a complete management consulting activity includes four stages, namely, business negotiation stage, diagnosis stage, improvement scheme design stage and implementation guidance and project summary stage. The following only briefly introduces the significance and work content of each stage.
(1) Business negotiation stage
The stage of business negotiation is the whole process from the consulting needs of customers, through mutual understanding and consultation between consulting institutions and customers, to the signing of management consulting service contracts. This stage includes the following contents:
1. Get the consulting demand information;
2. Preliminary negotiation with customers;
3. Conduct a preliminary investigation;
4. Write a project proposal;
5. Demonstrate the strength of consulting institutions;
6. Conduct business negotiations;
7. Confirmation and signing of management consulting service contracts.
(2) Diagnosis stage
The diagnosis stage is the whole process from the preparation of consultation according to the consultation service contract, through investigation and analysis, to clarify the problems existing in the customer and the causes of the problems, to clarify the direction and focus of improvement suggestions, to prepare a diagnosis report, to report to the customer, and until the diagnosis report is recognized. This stage includes the following:
1. Preparation before entering the customer unit;
2. Hold a project kick-off meeting;
3. Conduct investigation and analysis;
4. Put forward the idea and framework to solve the problem;
5. Write a diagnosis report;
6. Report and submit the diagnosis report.
(3) improvement scheme design stage
The improvement scheme design stage is the whole process of turning the thinking and framework of solving problems in the diagnosis report into an operable solution document approved by relevant customers through detailed design. This stage includes the following:
1. Formation of improvement scheme;
2. Discussion and modification of improvement scheme;
3. Report and submit the improvement plan.
(IV) Implementation guidance and project summary stage
The stage of implementation guidance and project summary refers to the process that consulting institutions guide and assist customers to implement the plan and finally end the consulting project within a certain period of time after the improvement plan is approved by customers. This stage includes the following:
1 Help customers make implementation plans;
2. Provide relevant training for customers;
3. Counseling the key links in the implementation process;
4. Solve the problems in implementation, and modify and improve the scheme;
5. Evaluate the implementation effect;
6. Make a formal project summary.