This book is to help you become competent in the process of management and consultancy research activities. In achieving this aim the text encompasses the skills and procedures of consultancy research. These encompass the steps in the consultancy process ranging through from initiating, planning and designing consultancy research projects through to the methods and skills of data collection and analysis. The key processes of implementing and actioning consultancy research findings in client organizations are also covered. It is envisaged that most readers using this text will be completing a project or dissertation as part of their studies through the practical application of a management consultancy project in a selected organization. The text, therefore, also aims to help develop your management competence and expertize through becoming an active part of the organizational world, thereby acquiring transferable skills needed for personal and professional development throughout your life as a manager.