At its core, innovation consulting involves bringing together technical, creative, and analytical skills to solve business problems, address societal issues, and transform ideas into reality. Innovation is an umbrella term for designing and developing new products, navigating unchartered business environments, and creating change in unexpected ways. Consultants here are forward thinkers. Some aspects overlap with […]
When asked about important skills to succeed in the consulting field, there are generally some pretty standard responses: communication, organisation, team work, problem solving, and analytical thinking. Whilst these are undeniably central to the role of a consultant, there is one skill that no one ever acknowledges. Consulting is a ‘people game’. Your role as […]
The incriminating title of this article was inspired by Charles Tilly’s book ‘War Making and State Making as Organized Crime’, which describes an instrumental, yet generally unrecognized trait of any organisation. We tend to consider our institutions as being means to a specific end, a social instrument for pursuing a distinct goal. The Ministry of […]