When to Hire—or Not Hire—a Consultant: Getting Your Money's Worth from Consulting Relationships

Index

A

AACSB. See Association to Advance Schools of Business (AACSB)

Accenture, 19, 25, 113

Advisory Board, 225

Affordable Care Act, 17, 28

Amazon, 43

American healthcare system, 28

American Society for Quality, 143

America, postwar growth in, 33–35

Anheuser-Busch, 210

Apple, 51

Application outsourcing, 25

Arthur Andersen, 37

Arthur D. Little, 19, 32

Asia

competent consultants in, 14

culture, 14

hiring consultant in, 13

Association to Advance Schools of Business (AACSB), 144

Assumptive close technique, 143

AT Kearney, 35

AT&T, 208

B

BAD, 19

Bad guys, consultants as, 95–97

Bad reasons, for hiring consultant. See Consultant(s):not hiring

Bain, ...