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Consulting is the practice of assisting an individual, group, or company to improve their performance by analyzing and identifying problems and recommend solutions to solve them.

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According to Greiner and Metzger (1982), Management Consulting is an advisory service contracted for and provided to organizations. Experts in this field assist the client organization to identify management and analyze problems, recommend solutions to these problems, and help, when requested, in the implementation of solutions.
Organizations hire consultants to gain external knowledge and advice on business matters that are not familiar or clear to them. The consultant is expected to add value to the required project displaying content, expertise, knowledge, behavior, and special skills (Weiss, 1998).

Management consultant used methodologies to guide them in identifying the ...

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