Conclusion
Clients spend a great deal of time developing vision and mission statements to provide overall guidance for their companies and employees. The practice of consulting needs the same effort. The profession needs a vision of an overarching framework that clarifies how consulting proceeds and ties together into an integrated whole. Consulting proposals serve this purpose, in part, by describing the phases of work, key tasks, deliverables, and a recommended process, and so on. But that is not enough. The consulting profession needs its own comprehensive, conceptual framework that guides how consultants work with clients. The purpose of this chapter has been to offer such a model.
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