In the Wake of the publication of the 8. Edition of the subject and teaching the book of classic Strategic Management of Franz Xaver Bea, Jürgen Haas led the editorial office UVK Lucius in Munich, Germany a survey of German consulting companies for strategy consulting projects. In this case, no representative selection of respondents) due to the survey design (e.g. not a scientific claim.

The respondents Consultants are mainly companies with fewer than 10 full-time employees (75%). This is the majority of short-term projects; 63% have a consultation period of less than six months. Every fourth consultancy services extends over a period of about a year.

Regarding the temporal share of the consulting services on the entire strategy process, for example, only 30% of the processes will be accompanied on the total duration. 43% of the projects to be supported under a third of the process time of Consultants.

On the client side more than five people to nearly two-thirds involved. On the consulting side, there are, however, in 83% of cases, only one or two people.

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