Meta-consulting

Mohe's research on meta-consulting in Germany looks at providing consultation about consulting. Mohe develops a business model to professionalize clients in dealings with consultants. From the literature he distinguishes three generic strategies to manage consultants.

1. build a consultation expertise, which focuses on consultant selection.
   
2. build in-house consulting resources
   
3. aim to build specific expertise to govern and control consulting projects. Within the UK public sector, there might be questions about if and how this strategy occurs, although Mohe's professional clients seem akin to the NAO's intelligent client.
   

Mohe conducted interviews with project owners and used surveys to identify starting points for improvement measures. Respondents were asked what worked well in consulting, what improvements could be made and how the consulting competence was evaluated. He suggests that companies are developing more professional approaches to consulting {Mohe, 2007 #687}.

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Mohe, M. (2007) How Meta-consultants could help managers to professionalize in dealing with consultants, Institute of Management Consultancy. Available from: http://www.imc.co.uk/news/professional_consultancy_article.php?item_id=622&issue=17%20