The book is aimed at students taking dedicated management consulting modules and work placement programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is well suited to students of business as well as scientific and creative disciplines who undertake a work-based project during the course of their academic study.

Management Consulting: Delivering an Effective Project

Business & Money

Wickham, Philip A.

Wickham, Louise

Management & Leadership

Pearson College Div

Management consulting remains a popular career choice but undertaking a consulting project for the first time can seem daunting for the student or new professional. This book, now in its fifth edition, aims specifically to guide students through the consultancy process, while also giving tips and techniques to the more seasoned practitioner. This is delivered from the accumulated knowledge and insight of the authors and contributors, who all have been consultants. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect today’s dynamic business environment. The impact of new digital technologies on consulting and business in general, and the use of evidence, gained through studies on consulting, are considered. It provides a careful balance between theory and practice and is ideal for anyone who is undertaking a consulting project. Key features <ul>
<li>A comprehensive introduction to the best practice in conducting a consulting project. </li> <li>Key insights into how best to tackle the challenges that arise. </li> <li>Case studies from across a wide range of industries at the end of each chapter and a long case study running throughout the book. </li> <li>Help in choosing and developing a career in consultancy. </li> <li>Extensive references and further reading to underpin a student’s knowledge. </li> </ul> New to this edition <ul>
<li>Further links to theories developed in other courses such as strategy and management. </li> <li>In the Preface, several ‘pathways’ are provided for the different types of project a student may be required to undertake, taking into account their academic level and previous experience. </li> <li>Throughout the chapters, the key ideas are highlighted to aid the reader in navigating the book. </li> <li>New case exercises, based on real consulting projects, to put tools and techniques into practice, including a new long case study on a strategic review for a company. </li> </ul> Louise Wickham is the Director of Wickham Consulting Services Ltd and a practising consultant specialising in strategy and marketing. She has over 30 years business experience, both within companies and as a consultant, working for a wide range of consumer-facing businesses and the not-for-profit sector. Jeremy Wilcock is the Business Engagement Manager at the Business School, University of Hull. He has 27 years industrial experience with a major multi-national where he worked on numerous internal consultancy projects. He has lectured regularly in strategic management and business analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has supervised student consulting projects.

Management Consulting 5th edn: Delivering an Effective Project

Wilcock, Jeremy

Reference

Pearson

Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as to why they were created has naturally been more diverse. Depending on the background of the author, the ideas have ranged from aesthetic values deriving from art, philosophical thoughts and ideas, social and even economic forces. Occasionally some thought has been given to the influence of political ideology such as the development of the English landscape garden in the first half of the 18th century. Gardens in History: A Political Perspective looks at the creation of gardens elsewhere through a similar political 'lens' in order to move debate away from portraying the motivation behind 'garden-making' merely as painting a picture with plants and buildings. Gardens are looked at in relation to not only how they are influenced by the political ideas of their creators but also how the gardens themselves provide support and legitimacy to those in government, either covertly or directly. Each chapter explores in depth one particular garden that demonstrates the ideas put forward. Topics covered include ancient gardens as political expressions of power, with the case study of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Renaissance Italian gardens and political ideology, demonstrated by Villa Pratolino, Florence and absolutism and diplomacy in the French formal garden using Versailles, Paris. Other overseas gardens examined are Taj Mahal, Agra and Katsura Rikyu, Koyoto. British gardens also reveal much about the effects of politics on their creation; case studies here are Stowe, Buckinghamshire, looking at the landscape garden as a political tool for Whig England; Hackfall, Yorkshire and picturesque debate as a political metaphor; Birkenheard Park, Merseyside and 19th century public parks in British Reform politics; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the politics of Empire; and moving into the 20th century, Painshill, Surrey and socialist politics and conservation. Table of Contents Ancient Gardens as Political Expressions of Power. Case Study 1: Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli The Garden in the Islamic Empire’s Expansion. Case Study 2: Taj Mahal, Agra Renaissance Italian Gardens and Political Ideology. Case Study 3: Villa Pratolino, Florence Absolutism and Diplomacy in the French formal garden. Case Study 4: Château de Versailles, Paris The Landscape Garden as a Political Tool for Whig England. Case Study 5: Stowe, Buckinghamshire The Picturesque Debate as a Political Metaphor. Case Study 6: Hackfall, Yorkshire Nineteenth Century Public Parks in British Reform Politics. Case Study 7: Birkenhead Park, Merseyside Botanic Gardens, Politics and Empire. Case Study 8: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London Gardens in Japan: Religion, Politics and Culture. Case Study 9: Katsura Rikyu, Kyoto Twentieth Century Gardens: Socialist Politics and Conservation. Case Study 10: Painshill, Surrey

Gardens in History: A Political Perspective

Arts & Photography

Windgather Press

This volume aims to restore the reputation of Thomas White, who in his time was as well respected as his fellow landscape designers Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. By the end of his career, he had produced designs for at least 32 sites across northern England and over 60 in Scotland. These include nationally important designed landscapes in Yorkshire such as Harewood House, Sledmere Hall, Burton Constable Hall, Newby Hall, Mulgrave Castle as well as Raby Castle in Durham, Belle Isle in Cumbria, and Brocklesby Hall in Lincolnshire. He has a vital role in the story of how northern English designed landscapes evolved in the 18th century.The book focuses on White's known commissions in England and sheds further light on the work of other designers such as Brown and Repton, who worked on many of the same sites. White set up as an independent designer in 1765, having worked for Brown from 1759, and his style developed over the next thirty years. Never merely a 'follower of Brown', as he is often erroneously described, his designs for plantations in particular were much admired and influenced the later, more informal styles of the picturesque movement.The improvement plans he produced for his clients demonstrate his surveying and artistic skills. These plans were working documents but at the same time works of art in their own right. Over 60 of his beautifully-executed colored plans survive, which is a testament to the value his clients placed on them. This book makes available for the first time over 90% of the known plans and surveys by White for England. Also included are plans by White's contemporaries, together with later maps, estate surveys, and contemporary illustrations to understand which parts of improvement plans were implemented.

Thomas White (c. 1736–1811): Redesigning the northern British landscape

History

Turnbull, Deborah

Europe

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