Trends in the Consulting Market

For several years now, the consulting business has been struggling with difficulties. As researchers, we are interested in the question of why the consulting business has not profited from the economic crisis as in the past, but was still highly affected.

During our research we noticed that businesses have fundamentally changed the way they make use of consulting services.

Companies tent increasingly to cut consulting expenses. This tendency has in the past effected only central value-adding processes in businesses, which was triggered partly by consulting services. Nowadays the consulting business itself has come to feel the consequence of its message. The impacts on our profession are still extensive but this provides an ongoing research topic for osb-i.