tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623132.post6108518944575837741..comments2024-03-29T14:50:14.174+05:30Comments on Exploring The Future of Work : The Father of Management ConsultingGautam Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691216163099240523noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623132.post-78934252994926971512009-08-11T23:31:21.265+05:302009-08-11T23:31:21.265+05:30Its from the book 'A Class with Drucker' b...Its from the book 'A Class with Drucker' by William Cohen! <br /><br />You might also be interested in knowing the secret history of silicon valley.. chk out steveblank.com<br /><br />-Srikanth ThungaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3623132.post-84644858792526074102009-08-08T03:05:09.509+05:302009-08-08T03:05:09.509+05:30I find it interesting how the story varies based o...I find it interesting how the story varies based on the storyteller's professional background.<br /><br />I worked at one of the Big 4 firms (as opposed to one of the 'Elite' firms) Deloitte Consulting. The version of the story told there was that the Big 8 Accounting firms (which later became the Big 4 via mergers) started to offer management consulting services at the request of their clients sometime in the 1950s. Also, the story said that the first standardized management consulting methods were heavily informed by Peter Drucker's writings. According to my colleagues at other Big 4 firms, Arthur Andersen was the first firm to offer management consulting services under the aegis of accounting services. Supposedly McKinsey started to offer services more than two years after the Accounting firms did so.<br /><br />At graduate business school, the story passed around was that Mercer Management Consulting was the first firm to offer management consulting starting in 1947. Is was supposedly staffed initially with WWII veterans who were key to the logistics effort leading up to D-Day and the subsequent push to Berlin. The story goes on to say that staff from Mercer started McKinsey.<br /><br />I doubt that any of the stories told so far are definitive but each was a tributary to the current practice of management consulting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com