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Our History

In the 20th century, Management Consultancy services have been provided by large accountancy firms or niche consultancies and independent consultants have been accessible mainly through word of mouth or resourcing agencies.

  

 
Clients needing to solve difficult operational issues and implement major change have thus had three main alternatives:  
  • Engage a traditional management consultancy to provide a ‘1-stop shop' – at a price
  • Assemble a team of niche firms or independent consultants – but:
    • take responsibility for the analysis of the problem and the opportunities to change
    • find it hard to find the right consultants using traditional agencies
    • risk creating the wrong team and a business solution that doesn’t come together as expected
  • Create an in-house consultancy – but find it hard to create and sustain an adequate network and knowledge base to make the consulting robust and up to date

Since 1997, the consulting market has ‘churned’ intensely – the sale of the Management Consulting Services practices by the big accounting firms and subsequent attrition has resulted in:

  • large numbers of the best , most senior consultants now working independently, in very small groups or alumni networks
  • clients being unable to effectively engage these consultants to address their larger problems
  • the coherent ‘how to’ knowledge of the big firms becoming fragmented
  • the lack of a credible large-scale 1-stop supplier of experienced operations and change implementation consultancy

The Knowledge Practice was formed in 2004 by a group of experienced delivery-oriented consultants and senior client executives to address this problem. We have:

  • talked to clients about what consulting capabilities they want and how they want to engage them
  • assembled and quality assured the largest group of senior level, delivery-oriented management consultants currently operating in the UK
  • engaged them in client-oriented collaboration around their unique practical experience of successful delivery and their knowledge of ‘how to…’
  • capitalised on evolving management trends and technologies to develop a truly innovative operating framework.

We offer clients and our consultants a genuinely new, client-oriented way of putting experience and Knowledge into Practice.