SOL12 Management Consulting

• Topics

  This course focuses on how a management consultant (MC) may work in the best interest of a client through interacting and communicating with client. Developing the MC-client relationship is emphasized to encourage collaboration and open exchange of information.

  Students will work on cases applying key theoretical tools learned in this course so that MC works appropriately with client.   

  This course aims to prepare participants to conduct management consulting in practice by elevating student competence in communicating with and giving advice to managers.

• Learning outcome

  Knowledge

  Upon course completion, the students knows and have insights into:

  • What it means to serve client's interests.
  • How the consultant develops a good relationship with the client.
  • How to communicate with client to exchange and produce information in humble inquiry.
  • Three models as a tool to help the client to solve their problems.
  • How to diagnose, define and solve client's problems.

  Skills

  Upon course completion, the students will be able to:

  • Apply knowledge on how to build a good relationship with the client.
  • Apply three models in handling the client's problems.
  • Help diagnose, define, and solve client's problems in humble inquiry.

  General competence

  • Students as future managers in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, will be able to define problems in organizations in line with theory.

• Teaching

  Three teaching hours per week. The teaching is divided into two activities; lectures including guest lectures from consulting firms - and groups working to internalize theory and their written semester paper (exam) under supervision. This course emphasizes a student-oriented teaching methodology integrating teaching and written semester paper.

  Physical attendance.

• Required prerequisites

  None

• Credit reduction due to overlap

  SOL12 is the equivalent to VOA033, and students will not get credit for both courses.

• Compulsory Activity

  Groups submit a draft of parts of the written semester paper as exam for written response.

• Assessment

  Written group-based term paper (counts 100 % of grade). 5-6 students in each group. The paper may be written in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. The groups will be working on their written term paper during the last part of the course, and have approximately seven weeks to complete the paper before the submission deadline.

  An assessment in SOL12 will not be organised in the the non-teaching semester. As of autumn 2023, only mandatory bachelor courses with an individual assessment will have an assessment in the non-teaching semester. This only applies to students with a valid course approval. The retake options that apply at all times are decided by the dean for the bachelor program and will be published in the course description.

• Grading Scale

  Grading scale A-F

• Literature

  Selected book chapters and articles (will be made available in Leganto)