Industry skills
"Real consultants, as opposed to bluffers, tend to specialise. It is desirable to know about them, but not to emulate them. There is a sharp gulf between consultants in the older professions and those in new fields of expertise. For examples of the former you need only look to consultant psychiatrists, consultant physicians and so forth. The rule of thumb is that if they call themselves consultant something, they are old school and respectable. In other words, the term consultant is almost exclusively self-applied by people who know they are not in a profession. The first recorded instance of anyone seeking consultancy advice is in the Garden of Eden. It is perhaps unfortunate for the image of the sector that the snake was the one giving it."
Nigel Viney: Bluff your way in consultancy
Manufacturing
Czech mining company: model for support restructuring and supplementary activities;
Automotive: evaluation of two foreign investors
Package producer: evaluation of requirements for operating capital
Chemical holding company: evaluation of holdings advantage
Manufacturer of air-conditioning equipment: assessment of key processes performance
Petrochemical company: methodology of management accounting
Package producer: business performance improvement
Food producer: selection of a distribution service supplier
Manufacturer of textile machines: Business Process Re-engineering
Qualification assessment of selected employees, basic motivation rules
Performance assessment of a research and development department
Food producer: business performance assessment
Foreign oil company: analysis of an acquisition target
Chemical company: analysis as a part of a new information system's implementation
Škoda Auto, a.s.: pilot project of Value Based Management implementation in production of engines and gearboxes;
CzechInvest: involvement in assistance to Czech companies as suppliers for multinational companies in electronics industry–advice on various issues to three companies.
Škoda Auto: central maintenance performance improvement
Manufacturer of fireproof doors: support in design of corporate strategy
CzechInvest: advisory services for 12 Czech companies in automotive industry, medical instruments and pharmaceuticals
Czech Manufacturing Group: design of centralisation of key decision processes including orgchart of the Group Headquarters, design of Corporate Governance policies
Financial services
Leasing company: feasibility study of banking market entry
Czech bank: business process re-engineering and cost reduction
Foreign bank: feasibility study of a new branch opening
Czech insurance company:
- Design of a management information system
- Pilot project on the allocation of overhead costs by using ABC.
Foreign bank: market analysis as a part of business planning
Czech financial institution: treasury design
Foreign bank: improvement of a credit process
Czech bank: analysis of customer relationship management
Foreign bank:
- Feasibility study of a leasing project market entry
- Feasibility study of a branch network opening
Services / miscellaneous
Supplier for telecoms: project management of a new information implementation system.
Hotel operator: feasibility study of a new hotel
International office equipment manufacturer: leasing feasibility study of market entry
Foreign GSM operator: support in bidding for obtaining GSM licence
Transportation company:
- Performance improvement of maintenance division,
- Business strategy for a foreign division.
Foreign engineering company: management audit of an acquisition target
Foreign utility: analysis of the Czech energy market
Music publishing: process improvement as a part of a new information system's implementation
Wholesale of fruit and vegetables: feasibility study of a new central warehouse.
Petrol retail: feasibility study of a new petrol station
Public institution: search for an investor for an important building
Public institution: market analysis
Czech Spa Operator Group: design of Corporate Governance policies