Factors influencing the success of management consulting projects

Improving enterprise resource planning (ERP) fit to organizational process through knowledge transfer

“…In return, consultants learn from their clients as well, even selecting organizations that provide an opportunity to exchange knowledge (Sveiby, 1997). Many researchers have used role theory to describe the competence of consultants (Bessant & Rush, 1995;Champion, Kiet, & Mclendon, 1990;Jang & Lee, 1998). These studies thus suggest the critical role consultants play in serving as external knowledge stock as well as in facilitating inter-firm knowledge transfer.…”

Improving Productivity and Standard Time Updating in an Industrial Company – A Case Study

“…The companies seek to find methodologies that allow them to respond to the growing challenges that are currently posed to them, and the Lean Manufacturing philosophy [1,2,8,13,15,16] and some other more or less closely related subjects are often the solution found to solve their problems [5][6][7]9,11,14,15,17,18].…”

Impact of Leadership Styles on Project Success – The Case of a Multinational Company

“…Black, Akintoye & Fitzgerald, 2000;Cheung, Yiu & Chiu, 2009;Clark, 1998;Fortune & White, 2005;Gelbard & Carmelli, 2009;Görög, 2008;Jang & Lee, 1998;Ng & Tang, 2010;Pinto & Kharba, 1996;Pinto & Slevin, 1987;Turner, 2004;Yang, Huang & Wu, 2011;Yeo, 2002;Yu & Kwon, 2011;Westerveld, 2003) These 9 factors encapsulate the most important areas which the critical success factors cover.…”