Strategic management consulting : reasonable dream merchants

• Yann DUCHESNE
  Associate director, McKinsey
  
• Claude RIVELINE
  Professor of management, École des mines de Paris
  

Summary

Occasionally company directors have strategic aspirations. But are these aspirations unrealistic ? Strategic management consultants are in a privileged position as they are often called upon by the heads of companies. Their discretion, independence and objectivity help to confirm the aspirations of the boss and encourage him to accept only those which would prove to be feasible. Finally, they help transform these dreams, irrationally conceived, into reality.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Lucien CLAES.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 5.