Strategic planning

This is the fourth in my series of blogs looking at the prospects for different segments within the consulting industry.

Engineering consultancies are the new kids on the block where management consulting is concerned, certainly still new enough for some consultants to be surprised when we include them in our analysis.

In The Big Short, Michael Lewis sets out to understand why, in the run up to the sub-prime crisis, a tiny minority of investment funds went against the prevailing sentiment and actually bet on the bubble bursting.  Were they run by geniuses?  Was there some clever bit of analysis that they did, but everyone else missed?  Were their financial models better than their rivals’?

This is the second in a series of blogs I’m doing which look at the prospects for different segments within the consulting industry.