Articles for August 2006A consultant's guide to mastery of the universeSun, 20th Aug 2006BY THE end of the 20th century, management consultancy was a $100bn-a-year business. Considering that there is no accepted body of theory or practice for consultants to sell, it is not a profession, is unregulated and is not subject to anything resembling Penalised for making folk better? I feel sick alreadySun, 13th Aug 2006THE BIZARRE tale of Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, which has been penalised for treating its patients too quickly, shows just how hard it is for managers to manage in Labour's idiosyncratic pseudo-markets. |