Principles of consulting.

Philosophical history
Any business as a living organism. Can a company successfully develop on its own? You will say that it is real. And the man? It is not known what would happen if he did not know how to heal. And doctors successfully help him in this.
In the business environment, however, this is consulting, a service that has arisen according to the law of supply and demand. The emergence of the first consulting firms contributed to the development of the “Theory of Scientific Business Management”, which originated in the second half of the 19th century. The main postulate of this theory can be formulated as follows: “Using observations, logic and analysis, we can optimize most of the operations and business processes, making them more effective to carry out”.
Wikipedia calls Arthur D.Little in accounting, and Buuz Allen Hamilton in management consulting as the first consulting companies. By ecumenical standards, one and a half centuries is quite recently. Continue reading →