The Logic of Management Consulting, Part 2

Editor’s note: In this the second of two articles in our series, “The Logic of Management Consulting,” Staffan Canback, a consultant at Monitor Company, draws deeply on the industry background and the explanation of transaction costs detailed in the first article to present a unique rationale for the industry’s existence.

He then develops scenarios for the industry’s evolution, ending with a perspective on the future of management consulting. A future characterized by continued growth and increasing influence of consultants.

This copy of the article first shows the scanned document and then a text-searchable version.