Management Consulting

In the UK, there is growing scrutiny and apprehension over government expenditure on consultancy firms, particularly over recent years. For example, it is estimated that Brexit-related spending on big consultancies increased by 20% in 2019 and the Pandemic has created new opportunities for consultants (a series of articles published in Financial Times in 2020 have focused on government's spending on external consultants, for example see FT articles dated 29 January, 17 April, 19 August in year 2020). In general, it has been common practice for governments and private organisations alike to procure knowledge and expertise through consultancies large and small. We ask whether consultancies are the only source of advisory or can academic researchers fill this gap? There is ample evidence of governments commissioning University-based researchers to solve urgent problems such as the recent development of Covid-19 vaccine (also see recent calls for research funding from UKRI related to Covid-19 crisis). But such engagement tends to be mainly focused in the hard sciences (natural sciences) domain as opposed to soft sciences (social sciences), which includes management research and consultancy. Although some Business Schools in the UK are already explicitly running academic consultancy operations, how far can Universities assemble teams of academic consultants at the pace a commercial consultancy can deliver to address an immediate need for a client organisation is a moot point.

This position paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the consultancy business for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) experts, a rapidly evolving sector critical to development, humanitarian, and corporate initiatives. The paper first defines the modern M&E consultancy, moving beyond its traditional scope to encompass strategic advisory, capacity building, and complex data analysis. It then identifies and elaborates on the core competencies required for success, highlighting the crucial balance between technical M&E skills, critical soft skills, and ethical integrity. The paper also examines the primary challenges faced by consultants, such as project-based instability, data quality issues, and ethical dilemmas, while simultaneously identifying significant opportunities presented by digital M&E, specialization, and long-term partnerships. A central argument of this paper is the urgent need for professionalization within the sector, advocating for standardized certifications, a unified code of conduct, and professional bodies to enhance credibility and ensure quality. The paper concludes by presenting a forwardlooking vision for M&E consultancy, positioning it not merely as a technical service but as a strategic partner in achieving sustainable and impactful outcomes.

Projektowanie oraz aplikacja skutecznych i efektywnych modeli biznesu jest warunkiem konkurencyjności oraz zdolności do współpracy współczesnych przedsiębiorstw. Kreowanie wartości dla klienta i interesariuszy to bardzo często eksponowany komponent jak i atrybut modeli biznesu. W pracy przedstawiono koncepcję metody pomiaru wartości jakiej tworzenie umożliwia aplikowanie (stosowanie) proinnowacyjnych modeli biznesu. Prezentowany model pomiaru oparto na Strategicznej Karcie Wyników (BSC). Przedstawiono wyniki wykorzystania opracowanej metody w badanych przedsiębiorstwach.

Introductory Information System (IS) courses commonly focus too heavily on teaching application features, as opposed to teaching unstructured problem-solving skills. In response to this pedagogical gap, professors at Brigham Young University have developed integrated cases that improve the instruction for their introductory IS course. In this paper, we overview a case that provides a realistic and compelling problem-solving experience for teaching Microsoft Excel™ measurement capabilities. This case describes the customer service issues and installation problems faced by an Internet service provider, along with pertinent cost and service data. The case requires the student to play the role of a management consultant who is asked to make business recommendations using Excel™. To effectively work with this case, students need exposure to Excel™ lookups, date/time capabilities, and countif / sumif functions, as well as other basic Excel™ features. To help the instructor implement this case, we have provided teaching notes that overview the history of the case, teaching suggestions, and a highly detailed grading and discussion template.

Abstract: Introductory Information System (IS) courses commonly focus too heavily on teaching application features, as opposed to teaching unstructured problem-solving skills. In response to this pedagogical gap, professors at Brigham Young University have developed integrated cases that improve the instruction for their introductory IS course. In this paper, we overview a case that provides a realistic and compelling problem-solving experience for teaching Microsoft Excel (TM) measurement capabilities. This case describes the ...

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Fearless Church is a hipster Christian organization in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) that functions as a hub for enthusiastic youth culture. People come as they are with ripped jeans, leather jackets, t-shirts, and fearless faith. The fearless theme is prevalent at the Church and hooks in whoever wants to be a part of it. Inside is Fearless Apparel, the Church gift shop and Fear Not Coffee, the Church coffee shop. Ministries at the Church include Fearless Outreach, Brave Gen, Fearless Youth, Fearless Online, Fearless Apparel, Fearless BND (Music Ministry), and Fearless Kidz. Two major events occur annually which are Man Camp (at the Fearless Ranch) and the Fearless Conference 2025 designed to make “Jesus famous in the Earth” (Fearless Conference, 2024). The organizational features of the Church impact the processes and outcomes for a unique worldview: a scared world needs a fearless Church (What We Believe, 2025).

As a field, organisational communication began because of a confluence of national and global events. These events included military training needs and changing labour force requirements and interests, as well as growing appreciation for how communication enables particular processes and outcomes and how communication constitutes realities locally and globally (see Ashcraft, Kuhn

In this paper we want to reinforce that process mining is a powerful tool in organizations, in addition we want to demonstrate to the Peruvian entrepreneur that its application brings substantial benefits to the company and the people involved. In 2016, different process mining algorithms were applied to the sales process of a Peruvian company and its optimization was achieved, five years later it was verified that the process was still operating correctly.

Caso desarrollado por la Ivey Business School (Canadá), que simula un reto práctico de calidad en una empresa estatal china fabricante de motores diésel. El problema central es la alta tasa de defectos (44 %) en un componente clave, el eje de doble engranaje (DGS), lo cual pone en riesgo la operación, la reputación y la expansión internacional. El estudio plantea analizar causas raíz como fallas en procesos, cultura organizacional, liderazgo técnico débil y sistemas de incentivos mal diseñados. Se propone aplicar herramientas de mejora continua, enfoque preventivo y control estadístico, como lo exigen escuelas de negocios de nivel Ivy League.

The diagnostic phase is the essential part of the consultancy cycle, providing the client with interpretable data and systematic approaches to improve the consultation effectiveness, however, there are still areas for improvement in diagnostic frameworks, data analysis, and client-consultant communication. This paper will demonstrate that although the diagnosis is an ongoing activity and a crucial node linking the whole consultancy cycle, it still requires using a mix of context-specific empirical tools and fostering a sustainable client-consultant relationship, dedicated to exploring the root causes of the organizational issue. In order to explain this, the paper will firstly focus on the importance of the diagnosis. Secondly, it will evaluate the diagnostic methods and data collection ways. Thirdly, it will discuss how to provide effective feedback to clients and build strong client-consultant relationship in the diagnostic phase. Finally, the paper will summarize the critical stu...

Robert Castel, directeur d’etudesMarc Bessin, charge de recherche au CNRSDenis Merklen, maitre de conferences a l’Universite Paris-VII Protection sociale et individu mobile Le seminaire de l’annee 2007-2008 a poursuivi l’analyse des conditions necessaires pour que l’Individu contemporain puisse se conduire comme un acteur social independant, alors que l’on assiste de plus en plus a une remise en cause des systemes de protection collective qui formaient les assises essentielles de cette indepe...

Military funding is when financial resources allocated to support a nation's armed forces, including government defense expenditure, military infrastructure investments, and foreign military aid to keep the country from internal and external aggressors. Defense expenditure covers personnel salaries, equipment, and operational readiness, while military infrastructure investments focus on building and maintaining bases and other military facilities (Omonijo et al., 2023). Foreign military aid involves support for other countries, including equipment, training, and financial assistance, often given for strategic reasons like counterterrorism efforts (Sulaimon & Akindele, 2022). Thus, military funding in this study is proxied by military expenditure. Economic growth on the other hand, is the increase in the production of goods and services in an economy over time, typically measured by the rise in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP growth reflects the value of all goods and services produced within a country during a specific period. When GDP increases, it signals that the economy is expanding, which can lead to improved living standards, job creation, and higher income levels (Babatunde & Adebayo, 2021). Historically, after Nigeria gained independence in 1960, Nigeria faced political instability which led to military involvement in governance with series of military coups. As such, the military took control in governance in the country in1966, and its rule continued for much of the second half of the 20th century (Akinola & Ibeanu, 2020). This military's rule deepened ethnic divisions, as certain groups were favoured over others, which caused tensions between different regions of the country. The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) was one of the major events caused by these ethnic conflicts, and the military's role in fighting it had long-lasting effects on the country's economic growth. For instance, the military's centralization of power and disregard for democratic governance to favour certain ethnic

Les activités qui composent la fiche de poste sont appelées à évoluer en fonction des connaissances du métier et des nécessités de service Qui sommes-nous ? Sorbonne Université est une université pluridisciplinaire de recherche créée au 1er janvier 2018 par regroupement des universités Paris-Sorbonne et UPMC. Déployant ses formations auprès de 54 000 étudiants dont 4 700 doctorants et 10 200 étudiants étrangers, elle emploie 6 300 enseignants, enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs et 4 900 personnels de bibliothèque, administratifs, technique, sociaux et de santé. Son budget est de 670 M€.

We reflect on a multi-year study of practice areas within professional service firms that has resulted in impact in various ways, including research publications, class teaching, and industry dissemination. We describe the challenges in conducting academic research at the practice area level, rather than the firm level. These challenges are grouped into two camps: fieldwork challenges and conceptual challenges. While we navigated these during our project in order to achieve our goals, we believe more work needs to be done at the practice area level within the consultancy industry, especially as this unit of analysis is affected by trends in AI and ESG that were not so prominent 20 years ago. We suggest one way forward will be to utilize collaborative systems approaches through a holistic stance, rather than focus on narrow sets of variables in a reductionist stance.

A number of different authors have highlighted the need for postgraduate students to be work ready for a career in consulting. This paper examines a cohort of 21 MSc students from a UK-based University and how they addressed this issue through an assignment geared up towards this aim. The completed assessments ranged in terms of the strategies the students used to assess their development needs for a career in consultancy. Strategies used consisted of: competency analysis, SWOT analysis, psychometric tests, use of the British Psychological Society consultancy cycle (from the Qualification in Occupational Psychology) and use of consultancy cycles from other sources. Interestingly there was a lack of consistency between students in terms of what strategies they chose to be future consultants. This research is useful because it systematically demonstrates which strategies may be used by postgraduates to identify the skills and behaviours they need for a consultancy career.

There is a strong need for MSc occupational psychology courses to produce employable graduates. However, many universities and students want to know what are the skills and behaviours needed by employers? To answer this question, two job analyses were completed in a multinational management consultancy and in a boutique firm specialising in assessment and development centres . This research highlighted eight competencies that could be developed by students making them more employable. Many students have used this competency framework, not only in our successful evening-based MSc in Occupational Psychology at Gloucestershire, but at other universities and on other degrees. As such there was a call by others to ensure that the research completed over a decade ago still had currency today and that the eight consultancy competency framework was still valid. This paper sets out an update to that original research demonstrating that the framework is still relevant today.

Getting a job in occupational psychology is tough as most of the people reading this article will know. It is a brilliant career and gives you privileged access to organizations large and small, public sector and private sector, profit or not for profit. And the list goes on. So why a job in consulting? Before answering this question, I always like to draw up the distinction between internal and external consultancy. Many people do start their route as an occupational psychologist in an internal consultancy, which has its advantages and disadvantages (Biggs, 2010). Indeed, I was no exception to this, so post MSc I

Digitisation and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a must for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to keep up with the global competition. ICT is part of the ten pillars of competitiveness. Quality management systems need information and analysis of data. The adoption ladder approach shows how a company can introduce ICT to its operations. The current research is based on a survey of 1,381 Hungarian SMEs according to their use of ICT and their implementation of ISO 9001 certified quality management systems. The results show a clear advantage of SMEs with ISO 9001 certified quality management systems in the use of ICT. This advantage includes the higher likelihood of using computers in networks, having internet connections, using e-mail, having websites, and using specialised software. The biggest advantage of ISO 9001 certified companies was found in having English language websites and using specialised software.

In 1993, AT&T spent more on management consulting services than on corporate research and development, and AT&T is not alone [8, p. 60]. Wall Street analysts expect billings for consulting services to advance at twice the rate of corporate revenues over the next decade. Yet, despite the size, growth, and influence of consulting firms, business historians have remained uncharacteristically silent about the origins, development, and impact of management consulting, or "management engineering" as it was known before the Second World War. 2 In this paper, I will describe the professional origins of management consulting firms at the turn of the century and discuss why, after slow, gradual growth through the 1920s, these firms took off during the 1930s. I argue (1) that historians have wrongly assumed that management consulting arose directly out of Taylorism, (2) that engineers, accountants, and lawyers, often supervised by merchant bankers, provided counsel that later became the primary repertoire of management consultants, and (3) that the legal separation of investment and commercial banking in 1933 drove the rapid professionalization and growth of management consulting during the Great Depression. Recent historians of scientific management, including Daniel Nelson, Stephen Waring, and Judith Merkle, have traced the impact of Taylorism on contemporary institutions as diverse as business education, public administration, and British industry long after the Progressive-era craze for "efficiency" ended [29, 36, 26]. The proponents of scientific management, Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, Morris Cooke, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, and Harrington Emerson, consulted with nearly 200 businesses on ways to systematize the activities of their workers through the application of wage incentives, time-motion studies, and industrial psychology [29, p. 11]. Naturally then, historians of Taylorism have assumed that they could describe contemporary practitioners of "industrial engineering," "production This article is drawn from my dissertation, "The History of Management Consulting, 1880-980." 2 The Association of Management Consultants (ACME) defines management consulting as a service provided for a fee by objective outsiders who help executives improve the management, operations, and economic performance of institutions. Since the institutionalization and professionalization of management consulting occurred within firms, not among solo practitioners, this paper focuses on management consulting firms.

AI was designed to make human lives easier. However, as more data became available and neural networks became more complex, the technology became prohibitive rather than helpful. Today, to utilize untamed pre-trained machine learning models, an AI research group would require at least a few hundred GPUs to handle hundreds of billions of parameters. To work well, large machine learning models require massive amounts of computational, financial, and energy resources. The Multi-Agent Advisory Network (MAAN) is an AI model with supervised learning that represents an answer to the expensive requirements of pre-trained models. MAAN can maintain, optimize, share, and combine its knowledge, resulting in high-quality collaborative performance across diverse tasks. MAAN uses a splitting neural network that splits its processing and memory demands among multiple parallel agents. This means that each agent is smaller and lighter and that their larger capacities are unlocked via multi-agent collaborative learning. In contrast to most multi-agent research that leverages evolution or reinforcement learning techniques for training agents, MAAN uses easy-to-scale widely used supervised learning. While MAAN uses zero reinforcement learning techniques for multi-agent cooperative learning, it does not use zero for joint learning, reducing the overall computational demands. This allows MAAN to navigate the concept of the scalable quality generalization of smaller and easier-to-train image and language processing models. In summary, MAAN is a lightweight, flexible, agile, and efficient deep learning model based on a loose and parallel-based agent architecture.

It is relatively unusual for white, working-class men to find employment in prestigious management consultancy firms. When they do find employment in these firms, their working-class masculinity is seen as problematic, and not in line with clients’ and co- workers’ expectations. In turn, they must modify their identity, by learning and enacting what the literature refers to as “corporate masculinity”. But how does this learning process occur? And how can consultancy firms better integrate working class men, to maximise the value of their contributions? Based on empirical research we conducted (Giazitzoglu and Muzio, forthcoming), this short piece explores the experiences of a pool of white working-class men who found employment as IT specialists in a prestigious management consultancy firm. After discussing our research and what it reveals about the way professionals from working class backgrounds learn corporate masculinity, we consider some practical recommendations.

Information technology plays a critical role in the healthcare industry. Healthcare IT, if efficiently managed, can reduce expenses; enhance hospitals processes, increase patient satisfaction and patient care. From this perspective, the need to improve the management of Information Systems becomes a significant governance and structural concern in hospitals. Thus, it is essential to have an appropriate strategy for IT systems and provide means to manage them. IT Strategic Alignment is critical to developing and maintaining all kind of information and communication that supports patients’ treatment processes, business operations and improves organizational social and economic performances. Our study is an intervention research methodology, a transformative approach, conducted in a private hospital in Lebanon. As technical systems are turning out to be more complex and progressively essential to healthcare organizations, there is a rising awareness to keep up a sustainable environment...

Para o efeito, for seguido um design descritivo, tendo sido aplicados 352 questionários junto de entidades e da população. As principais conclusões apontam para:  Maior impacto económico positivo é o aumento do volume de transacções comerciais.  A valorização e preservação do património histórico e cultural é o impacto sociocultural considerado mais positivo.  Maior impacto negativo decorrente do evento refere-se ao aumento do congestionamento e tráfego urbano.  A utilização racional dos espaços é considerado o maior impacto ambiental positivo decorrente do evento. O contributo dos impactos gerados pelo evento para o desenvolvimento de SMF, é de cerca de 32%.

This short note explores how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the younger generation's ability to balance efficiency and skill retention. Using a small-scale case study involving fifth-grade students, we investigated the impact of AI tools on task performance, focusing on efficiency gains and potential skill degradation. The results revealed that while AI significantly improved task efficiency, it diminished engagement with problem-solving processes, leading to skill atrophy. This report highlights the importance of balancing AI use with skill development and provides actionable recommendations for educators.

Contemporary developments have triggered the emergence of interdisciplinarity, which fosters learning across different areas of expertise. Particularly, the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) are reshaping perspectives across all management-related areas, from private to public sectors and from strategy to policy level. This article explores the historical developments of strategy and design and how these domains are converging toward an interdisciplinary perspective: design management or strategic design. Over the last 40 years, developments in each domain have posed common questions and established the interdisciplinary intersection of design management, relying on the notion of design culture and proposing alternatives to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. These discussions have extended beyond academia to boardrooms, fostering innovative solutions and becoming focal points for management consulting firms. This article examines how this intersection and interdisciplinarity are shaping management consulting services and empowering firms that act as early adopters of collective, participatory, iterative, and evidence-based design-oriented methodologies.

Events are a key element in projecting the image of a country. Depending on their typology and size, they have different degrees of importance. Some events have exuberant media coverage, so they manage to allocate a space in the public mind. When they are watched by television or any other digital media, they are associated with their location despite the fact that they transmit an image of the destination where such an event is held. These same events have the ability to attract potential tourists, who until then, did not have at all, demographic characteristics similar to what were usual in that destination. Therefore, the realization of an event on an international scale contributes to the “loyalty” of new types of tourists from a list of issuing countries that are not the usual.
The projection of a country's brand image is something that has to be worked on thoroughly, and the opportunity to hold an international event is a point to be taken into account. It is necessary to understand who the target audience is that we want to capture and the means that
we are going to use to promote this destination.
Having said this, this project presents in its initial phase a literature review about the theme of events, as well as the importance of the association of the image and brand to a country. This project will be studied from two different points of view, demand, and supply.
Subsequently, in a second phase at the empirical level, the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Portimão is chosen as the object of study and analysis, which will be divided into two distinct parts: the first is based on a survey conducted by the public and fans, as well as people who do not follow Formula 1 at a national level. In the second phase, answers will be collected to the same survey, but this one will now be projected internationally. The aim is to understand the opinion of the public that does not belong to the country hosting the event on how it can influence the brand image of the Algarve and the country.

Health establishments have to face and cope with an uncertain and turbulent environment in their management. They are asked at the same time to cut costs and to increase their social and economic performance. Their traditional way of managing is ill equipped to solve this conundrum. Their top-down management and compartmentalization of their organizational structure are not fit to have a global strategic and operational vision that can be embraced by all the actors of the organization and deployed effectively and efficiently. This paper proposes to develop a new type of management based on the 'Complex Thought' of Edgar Morin in order to be in a favourable position to improve the performance. The use of the Complex Thought can be operationalized thanks to the 'socio-economic' approach of Savall and Zardet. This conceptual framework has been tested by a case study of an establishment for dependent elderly person in France. The epistemological conditions of health establishments, as confirmed by the case study are not favourable to the use of the Complex Thought to set up a management system. However, the recourse to the socio-economic approach an its management tools can overcome, at least in part, this obstacle and permit to an auto-eco-re-organization, according to Morin's phrase, which offers opportunities for establishments to survive and develop in today's environment.

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to provide a clearer picture of the nature of power imbalance in client‐consultant teams, which has negative consequences for the development and implementation of consultants' recommendations, and to outline ways how to avoid such an imbalance in the first instance.Design/methodology/approachThis is an empirical paper based on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with clients and consultants from the strategic consulting sector in Australia.FindingsTaking a differentiated look at the roles and responsibilities of members of client‐consultant teams, the authors propose that power within client‐consultant teams is multidimensional and the outcome of the interplay of its different forms is not predictable. It is further argued that a power balance is crucial for achieving better results from consulting projects.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings are not generalizable, due to the small sample and the focus on strategic consulting. The resul...

Nowadays, developing a branding strategy has become a must even for commodities. The main decision many producers face is opting for a producer brand, a geographical brand or a certification brand when trying to create a coherent value proposition for their agricultural product. Nevertheless, the main challenge they all encounter is how to build brand equity and establish a sound positioning strategy. In this paper we try to conceptualize the primary directions for action in agricultural consultancy regarding building brand equity. First we debate the necessity of branding for commodities. Secondly, we analyze the primary sources of brand equity for agricultural products in terms of value creation for consumers. Furthermore, we investigate the fundamentals of positioning strategies for agricultural commodities throughout the analysis of two case studies based on traditional Romanian brands.

İlaç mümessillerinin çalıştıkları firmalarda etiğin doğrudan/dolaylı kurumsallaşma algılarını belirlemek üzere bir araştırma yapılmıştır. Veriler, literatüre bağlı olarak geliştirilen bir anketin ilaç mümessilleri üzerinde cinsiyet ve çalışılan firmanın sermaye yapısına göre oluşturulan kota örneklemesi temelinde, 03.10.2019-13.12.2019 tarihleri arasında çevrimiçi uygulanmasıyla toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde; tanımlayıcı istatistiklerin yanı sıra tek örneklem t-testi ve iki yönlü MANOVA'dan yararlanılmıştır. Yabancı sermayeli şirketlerde etiğin her iki boyutta da daha fazla kurumsallaştığı belirlenmiştir. Çalışanların etiğin doğrudan kurumsallaşmasını dolaylı kurumsallaşmasına kıyasla daha yüksek algıladıkları bulgulanmıştır. Ayrıca, yabancı sermayeli firmalarda çalışanların yerli sermayeli firmalarda çalışanlara kıyasla etiğin hem doğrudan hem de dolaylı yoldan kurumsallaşmasına ilişkin algılarının daha yüksek olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Çalışma, yerli ilaç firmalarının, iyi uygulama örneği olabilen yabancı şirketlerden kıyaslama yoluyla örgütsel öğrenme yoluna gitmeleri önerisi ile son bulmaktadır.

The Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE) carried out some exploratory research into how consultants access and use outputs of academic research in their work. We investigated: • The extent to which consultants used outputs of academic research in their work; • The sources used by consultants to access the outputs of academic research; • The benefits and disadvantages for consultants of the outputs of academic research; • Consultants’ experiences in working with academics; • How consultants used academic outputs in ther continuing professional development (CPD) activities. The research found that academic work contributes to the knowledge base that consultants draw on in three main ways: It is a source of ideas underlying major types of consulting interventions and of widely used consulting tools; Outputs of academic work provide information that can be used on specific projects; Academic outputs can contribute to consultants’ CPD.

La mise en politique du genre dans l'aménagement urbain. Une contribution à la cause des femmes ? Devant l'intérêt croissant dans les arènes politique, médiatique et universitaire pour intégrer les enjeux de genre à l'aménagement urbain, cette recherche doctorale s'attache à examiner la carrière de ce sujet. Une attention particulière est portée aux manières dont il est abordé au moment de son institutionnalisation. En prenant pour objet d'étude les recommandations formulées à l'échelle nationale et internationale, ainsi que les politiques locales conduites à Lyon, la présente thèse décrypte la mise en politique française du genre dans l'action publique urbaine. Il s'agit d'identifier les conditions institutionnelles d'émergence et d'élaboration des politiques d'aménagement qui entendent intégrer les enjeux de genreet que nous nommerons « politiques d'aménagement genrées »mais aussi, et surtout, de mettre au jour le prix de leur « survie » en même temps que leurs conséquences sur la réalité sociale. Une sociologie compréhensive des acteur•rices impliqué•es dans l'élaboration de politiques d'aménagement genrées, s'appuyant sur des matériaux issus d'observations participantes et d'entretiens semi-directifs, révèle une euphémisation, voire une invisibilisation de la cause des femmes. L'objectif est alors de comprendre pourquoi la lutte pour la cause des femmes n'intervient qu'en mode mineur dans les politiques menées contre les inégalités de genre dans l'aménagement. Tout en identifiant à la fois la place de la cause des femmes dans la carrière de l'intégration du genre dans l'action publique urbaine et le rôle joué par les politiques d'aménagement genrées dans la défense des intérêts des femmes, la thèse questionne plus largement les processus de transformations de l'action publique et alimente les réflexions sur sa dépolitisation.

This paper explores the integration of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) into business analytics, particularly in simulating market dynamics for strategic consulting. By leveraging GANs' ability to generate high-fidelity simulations of complex market scenarios, businesses can model strategic interventions and forecast market trends with unprecedented accuracy. The
paper discusses the theoretical foundations of GANs, their application in business analytics, and the advantages they bring to decision-making and forecasting. Furthermore, the challenges of using GANs in business contexts, including model interpretability, computational efficiency,
and ethical concerns, are examined. Through case studies and future projections, the paper underscores the transformative potential of GANs in reshaping business strategies and highlights the future directions and innovations that will further enhance their applicability. This research aims to provide insights for business consultants, data scientists, and decision makers in navigating the complexities of an increasingly volatile and interconnected global market.

Der Supervision und Organisationsentwicklung kommen als spezifische Beratungsformen beruflicher Zusammenhänge zunehmende Bedeutung zu. Einzelne, Gruppen, Teams und Organisationen im Profit-und Not-forprofit-Bereich, in Verwaltung, WiItschaft und im psychosozialen Feld nutzen die junge Disziplin, um die Effizienz ihrer Arbeit zu erhöhen, um Personal-und Teamentwicklung zu betreiben, um ihre Organisationsstrukturen zu optimieren und die fachliche und persönliche Entwicklung der Mitarbeiter zu fördern. Im Zuge der Diskussion um die Qualitätssicherung von Arbeitsprozessen und -produkten kommt der Supervision eine zentrale Rolle zu, deren Bedeutung -so wie es aussieht -in Zukunft weiter zunehmen wird. Ein Beratungssetting ist jedoch nur so gut, wie seine Schattenseiten bekannt, vertraut und damit handhabbar sind. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist, die >Kunstfehler<, wie sie in der Supervision und Organisationsentwicklung auch möglich sind, auszuloten, und diese genauso wie die Möglichkeiten unseres Instrumentes zu bedenken. An den Anfang meiner Überlegungen möchte ich ein Beispiel für einen klassischen Kunstfehler in der Supervision stellen, welches mir im Rahmen einer Lehrveranstaltung präsentiert wurde. Ausbilderinnenjür Pflegekräfte, deren Haupraufgabe der Unterricht und die Praktikumsorganisation fiir die Nachwuchskräfte ist und die dariiber hinaus eine Art universelles Supportsystemjür die Ausbildungskandidaten darstellen sollen, \Val' in stetige Streitereien verwickelt. Man Lähmte sich gegenseitig, es gab keinerlei Verbindlichkeit untereinander, alle Mitglieder des Staj/waren /lnZltfi-ieden lind I/ng/iicklich. Eine Entscheidung.

Sommaire Il y a peu de femmes chez les professionnels qualifiés des services technologiques aux entreprises, métiers de l’informatique, en Europe comme en Amérique. Le mode d’organisation du travail qu’on y pratique est celui de la gestion par projets, qui a de multiples conséquences en termes de conditions de travail : l’importance des longues heures et la résistance à la réduction du temps de travail, les heures supplémentaires non payées, la très grande flexibilité exigée des employés, les aménagements d’heure ou de lieu de travail sujets à négociation avec le chef de projet, selon des critères arbitraires. Les femmes sont celles que défavorise un tel système, car on observe un lien entre la flexibilité à cet égard et le fait d’avoir la responsabilité principale des enfants.

(IUD) of the AFL-CIO initiated a project to gather cases from affiliated unions that would highlight aspects of the National Labor Relations Board process deserving attention from those shaping labor law reform proposals. Based on the cases submitted, we conclude that in its current form the National Labor Relations Act serves to impede union organizing. Particularly problematic are NLRB policies that allow employers to wage no-holds-barred antiunion campaigns. Even where there are legal restrictions on specific actions, the penalties for violations are so meager that they serve no deterrent effect. The cases described below cover many industries, all parts of the country, large units and small, and collectively suggest that union busting has become the convention among U.S. employers.