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A consultant (from Latin: consultare "to deliberate") [1] is a professional (also known as expert, specialist, see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations).
A business consultant (from Latin consultare, "to discuss") is a professional who provides professional or expert advice [1] or service in a particular area such as security (electronic or physical), management, accountancy, law, human resources, marketing (and public relations), financial control, engineering, science, digital transformation, exit planning or any of many other specialized fields.
A consulting firm or simply consultancy is a professional service firm that provides expertise and specialised labour for a fee, through the use of consultants. Consulting firms may have one employee or thousands; they may consult in a broad range of domains, for example, management, engineering, and so on.
Moreover, with more online platforms that connect business executives to relevant consultants, the role of the traditional 'firm' is being questioned. [33] Large management consulting firms and professional networks have adopted a structure of industry-specific branches, with one branch per industry or market segment served.
Consulting is the activity or business of giving expert assistance on a particular subject, notably to other professionals but also to the consumer market. The following outline provides a general overview of consulting.
The role is very typical in information benchmarking and design consulting (see examples of actual design practices in the subsequent section below). The Process/People consultant assists in searching for solutions with methods that facilitate and raise creativity of the client company so that they will be able to implement solutions themselves.
It is the role of the process consultant to help the group reach consensus over the type of conflict it faces. Once the type of conflict is identified, the process consultant then helps the group work through the steps required to break the impasse.
A consultant pharmacist is a pharmacist who works as a consultant providing expert advice on clinical pharmacy, academic pharmacy or practice, public health pharmacy, industrial pharmacy, community pharmacy or practice, pharmaceutical analysis etc., regarding the safe use and production of medications or on the provision of pharmaceutical services to medical institutions, hospitals ...