The participants are provided with systematic guidance for scientific and analytical conducting of consultancy projects and adequate utilization of managerial theories, frameworks, and tools. The course offers two dominant approaches towards management consultancy: constructivistic and positivistic. By being trained in both approaches, the participants will be able to recognize and deduce business problem/challenge. Further, they will be able to, select, modify, combine, transform, and apply various business frameworks, methods, theories, tools, and adapt them to the specific business problem, prepare and conduct rigorous data collection and analyses for analysis-based decision making, design and execute rigorous consultancy strategy, and design and write clear, convincing, and creative consultancy report. En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:

• Recognize business problem/challenge
• Formulate business problems
• Design consultancy strategy
• Select, modify, combine, transform, and apply various business frameworks and tools for data collection and analysis
• Locate frameworks and tools within managerial disciplines
• Prepare of rigorous data collection tactics
• Prepare rigorous analyses for analysis-based decision making
• Evaluate different epistemological approaches in consultancy

Problem formulation
Consutlancy strategy
Method
Data collection
Data analysis
Recommendations and implementation plan 20. april, 2018