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A business consultant (from Latin consultare, "to discuss") is a professional who provides professional or expert advice[1] or service in a particular area such as security (electronic or physical), management, accountancy, law, human resources, marketing (and public relations), financial control, engineering, science, digital transformation, exit planning or any of many other specialized fields. A consultant is usually an expert or a professional in a specific field and has a wide area of knowledge in a specific subject. Consultants can save their clients time, increase revenue, and maintain resources.[2] The role of a consultant outside the medical sphere (where the term is used specifically for a grade of doctor) can fall under one of two general categories:

* Internal consultant – someone who operates within an organization but is available to be consulted on areas of specialism by other departments or individuals (acting as clients); or
* External consultant – someone who is employed externally (either by a firm or some other agency) and whose expertise is provided on a temporary basis, usually for a fee. As such this type of consultant generally engages with multiple and changing clients.

The overall impact of a consultant is that clients have access to deeper levels of expertise than would be feasible for them to retain in-house, and may purchase only as much service from the outside consultant as desired.

In the United Kingdom between 1992 and 2011, government funding provided via Business Link could be used to enable small businesses to access business consultancy services.[3]

## Research

A large-scale survey of business consultancy assignments, reported in 2004, found that repeat business and referrals from third parties were key determinants of consultant appointments.[3]

## References

1. ↑ "Consultant | Define Consultant at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. 2004-03-09. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consultant.
2. ↑ Tordoir, Pieter P. (1995). The professional knowledge economy: the management and integration services in business organizations, p. 140.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Colin (2004). "The Selection and Control of Management Consultants by Small Business Clients". International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship 22 (5): 435–462. doi:10.1177/0266242604046295. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0266242604046295.

## Further reading

* Management consultant[Usurped!]

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Consulting

Firms|

| Management|

* A.T. Kearney
* Accenture
* Arthur D. Little
* Atos Consulting
* Bain & Company
* BearingPoint
* Booz Allen Hamilton
* Boston Consulting Group
* Capgemini Invent
* Crowe Global
* Deloitte (Monitor Deloitte)
* Ernst & Young (Parthenon)
* FTI Consulting
* Gallup
* Huron Consulting Group
* KPMG
* L.E.K. Consulting
* Marsh & McLennan Companies (Oliver Wyman)
* McKinsey & Company
* PA Consulting Group
* PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&)
* Roland Berger

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Finance|

* Analysis Group
* Aon
* BDO Global
* Capco
* Crowe Global
* Deloitte
* Ernst & Young
* FTI Consulting
* Grant Thornton International
* KPMG
* Mazars
* Milliman
* PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Protiviti
* Synechron

IT|

* Accenture
* Altran
* Atos
* Avanade
* Business & Decision
* Capgemini
* CGI Group
* Cognizant
* DXC Technology
* Fujitsu
* Hitachi Consulting
* IBM Global Services
* Infosys Consulting
* iResearch Consulting Group
* PA Consulting Group
* Protiviti
* Slalom Consulting
* Sogeti
* Sopra Steria
* Tata Consultancy Services
* Unisys

HR|

* Aon (Aon Hewitt)
* Buck
* Hay Group
* Marsh & McLennan Companies (Mercer)
* Robert Half International
* Towers Watson

Merged|

* Accenture (Kurt Salmon)
* Aon Hewitt (Hewitt Associates)
* Arthur Andersen
* DXC Technology (Hewlett Packard Enterprise * CSC)
* Ernst & Young (Ernst & Ernst * Arthur Young & Co. * Ernst & Whinney)
* PricewaterhouseCoopers (Price Waterhouse * Coopers & Lybrand)

People|

| Founders|

* James L. Allen
* Arthur E. Andersen
* Bill Bain
* Roland Berger
* Edwin G. Booz
* Marvin Bower
* William Welch Deloitte
* Alwin C. Ernst
* Carl L. Hamilton
* Bruce Henderson
* Piet Klijnveld
* William Barclay Peat
* Arthur Dehon Little
* James Marwick
* James O. McKinsey
* Andrew Thomas Kearney
* Michael Porter
* Arthur Young

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MDs/CEOs|

* Dominic Barton
* Kevin Sneader
* Charles-Édouard Bouée
* Orit Gadiesh
* Rich Lesser
* Punit Renjen
* Mark Weinberger
* Pierre Nanterme
* Paul Hermelin

Areas|

* Management consulting
* Assurance services
* Audit
* Biotechnology consulting
* Economic consulting
* Engineering consulting
* Financial adviser
* Human resource consulting
* Information technology consulting
* Performance consulting
* Public sector consulting
* Risk and strategic consulting
* Tax advisor

Books|

* The Lords of Strategy
* McKinsey's Marvin Bower

Others|

* Accounting network
* Big Four accounting firms
* Big Three (management consultancies)
* Business consultant
* Business networking
* Case interview
* Certified management consultant
* Consultant
* Consulting firm
* Enron scandal
* Grade (consulting)
* House of Lies
* Professional services network
* Professional services
* Strategy+Business
* Victor Cheng
* Time and materials
* Fixed-price contract
* MECE principle

Lists|

* List of management consulting firms
* List of IT consulting firms

* Category

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