Module BUSI45J15: Consulting

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI45J15: Consulting

Tied To

• N2P109: Management
• N2P209: Management (Finance)
• N2P609: Management (International Business)
• N5K609: Marketing

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To develop students' abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to explore problematic situations, and identify and gain agreement to actions to enable improvement.

Content

• The nature of consultancy
• Consultant Role and Responsibilities
• The Consultancy Cycle
• Organisational Change
• Consultancy Capabilities
• Ethical Consultancy and Professionalism
• Careers in Consultancy

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have a critical understanding of the different roles and responsibilities of the consultant;
• Have a critical understanding of a consultancy cycle as a way to structure a consulting assignment;
• Have a critical understanding of the ethical and professional elements of consultancy.

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have the ability to apply the consultancy cycle to scope, plan and manage a consulting assignment;
• Have the ability to apply knowledge to explore an organisational issue and identify opportunities for improvements.

• The ability to critically identify and evaluate key issues within an organisation;
• Planning, organisational and time management skills;
• Problem solving and analytical skills;
• Skills of effective self-management including motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise;
• Ability to think creatively about organisational issues and interventions to address them;
• Skills to present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders in an organisation.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The lectures and seminars will introduce a consultancy framework and key elements of the consulting toolkit. They will also consider managing key stakeholder relationships including those with clients.
• The focus in the seminars is based upon "learning by doing", so that participants can work in groups on activities and issues that are representative of those undertaken by consultants.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

The formative assignment will involve students working in groups on a live consultancy project. They will recieve feedback based on their performance in groups and how they have applied their learning to a business issue.