Course Details

Consulting Strategies

 

TCTM1-GC1030
Credit: Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management

This course will focus on understanding the roles and responsibilities of consultants, both internal and external. By examining models, approaches, and best practices used by industry consulting professionals, students will understand the process for conducting a consulting project. Topics to be covered include: preparing a proposal, diagnosing organizational culture, contracting with a client, managing client communications, accessing and assessing resources, developing the deliverables, monitoring progress, reporting results, achieving engagement closure, and re-contracting. Students will conduct a consulting project from contracting to presentation of results, working in teams, with appropriate clients under the guidance of a faculty member.

Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, each student should be able to:

1. Identify the personal, professional, cultural, technical, and organizational challenges that consultants encounter.


2. Develop and present a professional client proposal for consulting services.


3. Evaluate consulting proposals from a variety of perspectives.


4. Manage client communication and deliverables throughout a consulting project.


5. Recognize the potential conflicts of interest and other ethical issues faced by industry consultants.

Prerequisites:
Applied Research Methods ¿ Y54.1050 and student must be in their final semester.

 

To register for this course you must be an admitted student in an NYU credit or degree program or have special student status. Admitted NYU credit or degree students may visit NYUHome to register through ALBERT. To apply to an NYU-SCPS credit or degree program, call (212) 998-7100.