Outline of consulting

• Coaching • Contingent work • Freelancer • Gig worker • Temporary work • Division of labour • Employment agency • Focus group • Knowledge worker • Knowledge as a service • Professional services network • Professional corporation • Service provider • Service-level agreement • White-collar worker • White shoe firm == Types ==

• Biotechnology consulting • Economic consulting • Energy consulting • Engineering consulting • Environmental consulting • Faculty consulting • Franchise consulting • Human resource consulting • Information technology consulting • Data as a service • Data virtualization • Information Technology Infrastructure Library • Management consulting • Political consulting • Public consultation • Public sector consulting • Trial consulting == Concepts ==

• Action plan • Business case • Business reporting • Capacity planning • Production planning • Change management • Compound annual growth rate • Critical path method • Deliverable • Design structure matrix • Ethics in business communication • Feedback • High- and low-level • Information market • Leverage (finance) • Mind map • Organic growth • Organizational intelligence • Organizational diagnostics • Performance indicator • Presentation slide • Scenario planning • Scope (project management) • Top-down and bottom-up design • Utilization rate • Zero Defects == Formats ==

• Enterprise legal management • Enterprise resource planning • Business process modelling • Business process re-engineering • Business reference model • Enterprise architecture framework • Manufacturing resource planning • Professional services • Business valuation • Governance, risk management, and compliance • Expert determination • Risk and strategic consulting • Risk assessment • Settlement (finance) • Strategy • Subject-matter expert == Services ==

• Corporate services • Actuary • Clinical pharmacology • Corporate finance • Leveraged buyout • Mergers and acquisitions • Recruitment • Corporate sustainability • Financial services • Accounting • Assurance services • Environmental accounting • Financial accounting • Governmental accounting • Advisor • Audit • Financial audit • Management audit • Performance audit • Investment management • Liquidation • Wealth management • Outsourcing • Business process outsourcing • Professional network service • Business networking • Multidisciplinary professional services networks • Research and development • Business analysis • Research and development agreement == Occupations ==

• Business consultant • Consultant (medicine) • Creative consultant • Educational consultant • Elevator consultant • Employment consultant • Foreclosure consultant • Legal nurse consultant • Loss-control consultant • Media consultant • Medical practice consultants • Process consultant • Sustainability consultant == Glossary ==

• Benchmarking • Best practice • Bird's-eye view • Board of directors • Business-to-business • Competitive intelligence • Core competency • Direct-to-consumer • Due diligence • Elevator pitch • End of day • Gantt chart • Greenfield investment • Mission critical • Opportunity cost • Pareto principle • Professional conduct • Scope creep • Sea change (idiom) • Value added == Frameworks ==

• Balanced scorecard • Boston Consulting Group's Advantage Matrix • Growth–share matrix • Managerial grid model • McKinsey 7S Framework • MECE principle • OGSM • PEST analysis • Porter's five forces analysis • Quality control • Strategic Grid Model • SWOT analysis • Viability study == Notable firms ==

• Accenture • Bain & Company • Boston Consulting Group • Capgemini • Deloitte • Ernst & Young • Grant Thornton International • IBM Consulting • Infosys • Infosys Consulting • KPMG • McKinsey & Company • PwC • Strategy& • WSP Global == Professional bodies ==

• Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand • Conference of Consulting Actuaries • Institute of Consulting • Institute of Management Consultants USA • International Council of Management Consulting Institutes • International Federation of Consulting Engineers == Certifications ==

• Certified Consulting Meteorologist • Certified management consultant • Certified mortgage consultant • Chartered financial consultant == See also ==