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From Solution Shop to Boutique Consulting? Capturing Recent Developments on the German Consulting Market

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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Title From Solution Shop to Boutique Consulting? Capturing Recent Developments on the German Consulting Market
 
Creator DÖTSCH, Jörg Jasper; Andrássy University
 
Description Digitalization, globalization, new technologies and shorter product life cycles are only a few keywords underlining the fact that companies are under increasing pressure for faster adaptation, innovation and hence applying a higher knowledge intensity. We assume that these conditions require an increasingly important role of consulting companies, because they seem to be the intermediaries needed to bridge the faster growing gaps between existing business models, organizational structures and accelerating market change. Market pressure is growing on the market for consultant companies as well. New technologies and digitalization should influence both the structure of the consultancy market and the business models of consultancies. Christensen suggested a trend from Dzsolution shop” to Dzboutique consulting.” To track current developments, we concentrate on the German consulting market as one of the most important consultant markets worldwide and explore changes of the last two years based on various studies. Processes of change seem to be both substantially driven by digitalization and to reflect change on the non-consultancy markets. A high willingness to switch among providers documents a high pressure on performance. The impact of digitalisation seem to be observable in structural and qualitative change. With regard to the German consulting market and the latest available data we cannot validate a tendency from a dominance of “solution shop” consultancies to “boutique” consultancy services
 
Publisher Faculty of Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
 
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Date 2016-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
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Identifier http://www.managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/166
 
Source Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy; Vol 4, No 2 (2016): Issue 12; 291-306
2392-8042
2286-2668
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/166/129
 
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