The Practice of Professional Consulting



Scope of Consulting

It is clear that consulting comes in many forms, and to understand the nature of consulting it is helpful to consider the practice of consulting in a broader context. In IT consulting, for example, consider two dimensions: business scope and advisory level, assessed on the basis of low to high and narrow to broad, respectively. Figure 1.1 shows a number of technical roles classified as “consulting” in relationship to the level of work being done on the two dimensions.

FIGURE 1.1 TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS BY SCOPE AND ADVISORY LEVELS

All levels and roles are part of consulting, differentiated in this ...