Change Lecture 2018: Do management consultants do more harm than good?

The Change Lecture has been run annually by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and this year was run jointly with the Centre.

Recently a team of academics published a paper that concluded that there was a negative correlation between the amount health trusts spent on management consultants and their performance. This received a lot of publicity, but as might have been expected, received a strong rebuttal from the consulting industry.

The academics who wrote the paper were the speakers at this year’s Change Lecture, together with Alan Leaman, CEO of the Management Consultancies Association, who made the case for the defence. See the report on the Company’s web site here.

Shown in the picture are Alan Leaman, David Johnson, Master of the Company, Bob Harris, who chaired the event, and Andrew Sturdy and Ian Kirkpatrick, two of the authors of the paper.