MANGEMENT CONSULTANCY

Management Consultancy - The Boston Consulting Group, Incorporation

Management Consultancy - The Boston Consulting Group, Incorporation

Introduction

The practice of helping organizations in order to improve their performances, primarily through an analysis on organization's existing flaws and suggesting further growth plans for improvement is often identified as Management Consulting. Organizations may rely upon on the services of management consulting for numerous reasons such as when they want to have and gain some peripheral advice on their objectives and goals of the organization they can without any difficulty contact the consultant in order to get their unusual guidance. As an outcome of their increasing exposure and improving relationships with numerous organizations, consulting firms are also reflected as that they are responsive of business best practices. On the other hand, the transferability of such practices is limited from one organization to another because of the specific nature of the circumstances under contemplation. The following paper discusses and analyses The Boston Consultancy Group based in United States of America.

Discussion

Introduce your assignment and explain why you have chosen the particular organization

Here, the organization chosen is the Boston Consulting Group which is one of the largest and leading management consulting companies in the United States, The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. serves as an advisor to clients. The firm mainly provides consultancy to clients in the public, private and also caters non-profit businesses all over the world. The reason behind choosing Boston Consulting Group, Inc. for this report is that it is the world's leading consulting firm with operations in forty three countries all around the globe with its seventy eight offices. The company is managing sixty two thousand consultants successfully. Another reason is also there that The Boston Consulting Group is a top employer of fresh graduates of the top universities of United States. Moreover, fortune magazine honored it with the title of “Best Firms to Work For” in the year 2012 and 2011.

In the current year's ranking The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. has been ranked at number four in the same category (Porter, 2008, n.d). Moreover, the firms honors and recognitions doesn't ends here the firm (BCG) has also been graded in “Consulting Magazine's” “best organizations to work for” list each year since 2001. The Boston Consulting Group is also receiving perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index for the past six years; the index was designed by the Human Rights Campaign. The firm is also rated as “One of the Best Companies” for working mothers for past six years by the Working Mothers Magazine.

The Boston consulting Group usually hires people for its consultant or an associate position with occasional so called “lateral hires” opportunities as partner, project leader or a principal. BCG typically hires graduates as for the position of associate in the United States and the outstanding performer receives rewards in the form of sponsorship to pursue Master's of Business Administration program, but having a condition of returning back to Boston Consulting Group after completing the ...