The main aim of Lumbee Corporate (LC) is to help organizations improve. Improvements can come in performance and meeting of objectives. A consultant can analyze problems in an organization and help develop plans for improvement.
The demand for a management consultant or consultant company comes from the need for an objective from a third party. The demand can also come due to a lack of knowledge in an organization.
Consultants typically are aware of industry best practices and requirements. Consultants along with consulting services can help an organization achieve best practices and improvements. Here is a list showing a consultant can help with
1. Change management
2. Coaching
3. Process analysis
4. Implementation of new and emerging technologies
5. Strategy development
6. Operational and performance improvement
7. Process improvements
8. Standards compliance
9. Organizational development.
In the late 1800's and early 1900's management consultants doing specialized research for organizations and helping organizations with their productivity and technical challenges. From United States the consultancy industry grew with passage of the Glass-Steagall Banking Act in the 1930's to post World War II and throughout the 1950's management consultancy operations grew globally. Management consultants can be freelancer consulting professionals or part of large firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Bain, Deloitte, McKinsey, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst & Young or emergent companies like Lumbee Corporate. Major clients of LC are from educational organizations but not limited to them.
1. Information on best practices in an industry
2. An impartial and objective perspective
3. An economic approach compared to using internal resources and hiring
4. Knowledge of a specialized skill
5. Knowledge on how to complete change management
6. Provide an expert opinion
7. Define how something should be done
8. Facilitate a client to look at their organization and how to improve it and its processes and practices