Kirk vs Spock, Spock vs Kirk or
Kirk and Spock
Wikipedia refers management consulting to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.
There are two primary characters in this dominion, the management consultant firms (the “firm”) and the industry they are serving. Or is it the other way around, that industry is serving the management consultants and its firms…..
If one reads the various management jargons and fads one begins to wonder from the industry view point which is best suited for me or if I really do need it. On the other hand from the firm point of view one is for ever searching the Holy Grail, a management practice which will be adopted by different industries, and this practice can be upgraded on to different versions aka, Windows 93,95, 2000, XP, Vista….
What we get here is a tussle, and in this bingos for search for solution and understanding the question who wins? Guess what, no one. Now in order to understand that lets look management consulting and industry in different light.
I was always fascinated by Star Trek (and a Trekkie myself), one always gets into this argument who was the most dynamic character Kirk (the human) or Spock (the Vulcan). While Kirk was a human with all the dynamism and frailty of a human, Spock half human and half Vulcan was always struggling with his Vulcan logical self and the human emotional self. Despite the difference there was a similarity between them, and they were bound with a common cause….”to go where no man has gone before”.
So what does need to do with the firm and the industry?
