Template-driven Consulting is a book for managers who have long been searching for a way to cut costs on expensive external business advice. Every day, new stories of companies that have gone belly up or encounter severe financial troubles show up on the front pages of newspapers across the globe. Cost-cutting is again the most pressing issue in organizations - initiating massive layoffs and large-scale reductions in spending on capital goods. Template-driven Consulting (TDC) allows your company to trim down expenses at another source: external consultants. By drawing on the use of templates, TDC at last really brings about the often cited knowledge transfer from consultants to your employees. Applying TDC, your employees are to become your experts, whilst you will see the number of and cost for external consultants decrease tremendously! This book, with its clear structure and hands-on approach, lets you understand the new methodology and will help you in reaping its cost benefits in your company. It provides you all the necessary insights into how consultants are working at your company and how they should be so as not to burn cash by the hour. TDC puts you in the driver's seat and gives you a cutting-edge advantage: empowering your own employees to deliver consulting work usually done by high-priced externals. Template-driven Consulting shows you what you can expect from consultants. Besides, several case studies lay open how business could gain a long-term competitive advantage by applying the TDC methodology.

Executive Summary Template-driven Consulting: A Concise Overview

The Approach
The Methodology
The Benefits of TDC
The Bottom Line
1 Template-driven Consulting: An Introduction
The Origins of TDC
Description of TDC
Background of TDC
Objective of this Book
Approach of the 13ook
Benefits for the Reader
2 A Managerial Evaluation of the Consulting Market
The Contingency Situation
Overview and Evaluation of Key Industries
Convergence as a Driving Force
Overview in the Consulting Industry
The Changing Consulting Industry
3 The Changing Business Environment
Increasing Transparency
Boundaryless Networking
Increasing Intangibility of Knowledae
Growing Cost Pressure
Increasing Resistance Towards Consultancy
Small Is Beautiful
Trust and Personality versus Brand
Quality for Fair Price
Facilitation versus Delivery
4 The Learning Dimension of TDC
Historical Perspective and Early Approaches
Theoretical Background
Cognitive Social Learning -Core to TDC
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Its Impact on TDC
The Individual's Learning Perspective
Templates and Linked Learning Typologies
Challenges of Template-driven Learning
Advantages of Template-based Learning
Template-based Learning and Consulting
5 The Process Perspective of TDC
Temnlate-driven Conculting: The flefinition
The Core Stens of Fverv Cnrcultino Process
Conventional Consulting Processes
Kecent Lonsuiting Paradigm Shifts
Template-driven Consulting - The Four Phases
6 The Tool Dimension of TDC
Definition of Templates
Historical Development of Templates
Key Elements of Efficient Templates
Development Path of Templates
Typology of Templates and Different Types
7 The Required Skills Triad
Abstraction Ability
Dual-level Coaching
Generic Process Thinking
8 Case Study: Elastogran GmbH
TDC in the Area of Innovation Management
Descrintion of the Client
The Contingency Situation
Problem Definition and Understanding
Process Evolvement and Abstraction
Template Generation
Project Work Implementation
Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results
9 Case Study: Deloitte Consulting
TDC in the Area of Process Reengineering
Description of the Client
The Contingency Situation
Problem Definition and Understanding
Process Evolvement and Abstraction
Template Generation
Project Work Implementation
Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results
10 Case Study: Allianz Group
TDC in the Area of Organizational Development
Description of the Client
The Contingency Situation
Problem Definition and Understanding
Process Evolvement and Abstraction
Temnlate Generatinn
Project Work Implementation
Quantitative and Qualitative Project Results
The Future
Resume
11 The Benefits of TDC
Decreasing Exnendifuures
Process Thinking
Knowledge Transfer
Focus on Teams and Teamwork
Overcoming Shortsightedness and Departmental Thinking
Motivation of Employees
Conclusion
FurtherReading.