How to Rebuild Professional Management Consulting
Most enterprises have employed consultants for business process re-engineering, enterprise resource planning and management information system implementation, management improvement, and other business change management consulting. And many of us have had problems executing the projects successfully and gaining quantified benefits.
Problems gaining benefit from Management Consultants
What are the basic problems that hamper the enterprise?
- The enterprise does not take full management charge and turns many of its responsibilities over to consultants. Many have not established internal responsibility for change over time
- The enterprise is not organized or managed for change. The enterprise does not have an organized business structure and has not identified, and does not have someone responsible for, each result and performance solution that must change and improve
- Change and management improvement projects are not planned, organized, or managed to produce benefits. They are organized to incur costs.
- Many management consulting services are not professional. Professional services provide experience, analysis, and judgment. Junior consultants following a methodology to produce a deliverable is a work-for-hire service
These problems are accepted as the way that things have always been done. This thinking on both the side of the enterprise and the side of the consultant prevents a new model for professional management consulting that is directed at enterprise success. The need for professional management consulting is described in the article Put Professionalism back in Management Consulting with R-pM.
R-pM puts professionalism back in management consulting
These basic problems are eliminated by Result-performance Management (R-pM), the conventional method to organize the business for 21st Century Management. R-pM organizes the results and performance solutions into one integrated business structure under responsibility of a specific result and performance managers. There is investment management responsibility for all change over time. Projects planning and management itemizes result value-added benefits as well as performance solution development and operation costs. R-pM Consultants specialize in R-pM for business change and management improvement services and utilize the R-pM consulting model to work in partnership with their customer enterprise. Downloads are available to members of the R-pM Community that explain how to select a business change consultant and the new R-pM 21st Century Management Consulting Model.
Both the enterprise and the management consultant must employ R-pM to organize the enterprise business for improvement and to rebuild professional management consulting to work in partnership with the enterprise for shared result value-added success.
Review the articles under Learn the Basics of R-pm or click on the R-pM banner to download information on the R-pM Management Consulting Model and to learn more about R-pM.
21st Century Management eliminates 20th century problems
Result-performance Management (R-pM) eliminates costly 20th century problems. Slash costs, simplify business management, and boost competitive advantage through R-pM, the conventional method for 21st Century Management.
Download your 21st Century Management Manual today
Your 21st Century Management Manual, The R-pM Toolkit, used by both R-pM Management Consultants and the enterprise, is available today and is under continual development to expand and refine 21st Century Management. Get your R-pM Toolkit, and future updates, at result-performance-management.com.
