Outline of consulting

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to consulting:

Consulting is the activity or business of giving expert assistance on a particular subject, notably to other professionals but also to the consumer market. The following outline provides a general overview of consulting.

Overview

 * Coaching
 * Contingent work
 * Freelancer
 * Gig worker
 * Temporary work
 * Division of labour
 * Employment agency
 * Focus group
 * Knowledge worker
 * Knowledge as a service
 * Professional services network
 * Professional corporation
 * Service provider
 * Service-level agreement
 * White-collar worker
 * White shoe firm

Types

 * Biotechnology consulting
 * Economic consulting
 * Energy consulting
 * Engineering consulting
 * Environmental consulting
 * Faculty consulting
 * Franchise consulting
 * Human resource consulting
 * Information technology consulting
 * Data as a service
 * Data virtualization
 * Information Technology Infrastructure Library
 * Management consulting
 * Political consulting
 * Public consultation
 * Public sector consulting
 * Trial consulting

Concepts

 * Action plan
 * Business case
 * Business reporting
 * Capacity planning
 * Production planning
 * Change management
 * Compound annual growth rate
 * Critical path method
 * Deliverable
 * Design structure matrix
 * Ethics in business communication
 * Feedback
 * High- and low-level
 * Information market
 * Leverage (finance)
 * Mind map
 * Organic growth
 * Organizational intelligence
 * Organizational diagnostics
 * Performance indicator
 * Presentation slide
 * Scenario planning
 * Scope (project management)
 * Top-down and bottom-up design
 * Utilization rate
 * Zero Defects

Formats

 * Enterprise legal management
 * Enterprise resource planning
 * Business process modelling
 * Business process re-engineering
 * Business reference model
 * Enterprise architecture framework
 * Manufacturing resource planning
 * Professional services
 * Business valuation
 * Governance, risk management, and compliance
 * Expert determination
 * Risk and strategic consulting
 * Risk assessment
 * Settlement (finance)
 * Strategy
 * Subject-matter expert

Services

 * Corporate services
 * Actuary
 * Clinical pharmacology
 * Corporate finance
 * Leveraged buyout
 * Mergers and acquisitions
 * Recruitment
 * Corporate sustainability
 * Financial services
 * Accounting
 * Assurance services
 * Environmental accounting
 * Financial accounting
 * Governmental accounting
 * Advisor
 * Audit
 * Financial audit
 * Management audit
 * Performance audit
 * Investment management
 * Liquidation
 * Wealth management
 * Outsourcing
 * Business process outsourcing
 * Professional network service
 * Business networking
 * Multidisciplinary professional services networks
 * Research and development
 * Business analysis
 * Research and development agreement

Occupations

 * Business consultant
 * Consultant (medicine)
 * Creative consultant
 * Educational consultant
 * Elevator consultant
 * Employment consultant
 * Foreclosure consultant
 * Legal nurse consultant
 * Loss-control consultant
 * Media consultant
 * Medical practice consultants
 * Process consultant
 * Sustainability consultant

Glossary

 * Benchmarking
 * Best practice
 * Bird's-eye view
 * Board of directors
 * Business-to-business
 * Competitive intelligence
 * Core competency
 * Direct-to-consumer
 * Due diligence
 * Elevator pitch
 * End of day
 * Gantt chart
 * Greenfield investment
 * Mission critical
 * Opportunity cost
 * Pareto principle
 * Professional conduct
 * Scope creep
 * Sea change (idiom)
 * Value added

Frameworks

 * Balanced scorecard
 * Boston Consulting Group's Advantage Matrix
 * Growth–share matrix
 * Managerial grid model
 * McKinsey 7S Framework
 * MECE principle
 * OGSM
 * PEST analysis
 * Porter's five forces analysis
 * Quality control
 * Strategic Grid Model
 * SWOT analysis
 * Viability study

Notable firms

 * Accenture
 * Bain & Company
 * Boston Consulting Group
 * Capgemini
 * Deloitte
 * Ernst & Young
 * Grant Thornton International
 * IBM Consulting
 * Infosys
 * Infosys Consulting
 * KPMG
 * McKinsey & Company
 * PwC
 * Strategy&
 * WSP Global

Professional bodies

 * Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand
 * Conference of Consulting Actuaries
 * Institute of Consulting
 * Institute of Management Consultants USA
 * International Council of Management Consulting Institutes
 * International Federation of Consulting Engineers

Certifications

 * Certified Consulting Meteorologist
 * Certified management consultant
 * Certified mortgage consultant
 * Chartered financial consultant