Business Consulting

Business Consulting

Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
PROJECT A..............................................................................................................................................3
Client’s Business Problem.......................................................................................................................3
Client’s requirements and the combined skills, expertise and experience of the team.............................3
PROJECT B...............................................................................................................................................4
Client’s Business Problem.......................................................................................................................4
Client’s requirements and the combined skills, expertise and experience of the team.............................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
A business consultant is a professional who offers expert advice in a specific area of
expertise. The area can range from human resources, marketing. Information technology to many
other specialized fields. Business consultants usually create solutions to problems or situations
and help businesses in developing efficient plans in order to meet their respective goals (Aronoff
and Ward, 2016). This report is about providing business consultancy services to the Information
Technology and Human Resources departments of London School of Science and Technology,
which is a privately managed college in the academic sector having four campuses. LSST is a
client company for the business consultancy team.
PROJECT A
Client’s Business Problem
London School of Science and Technology or LSST is a college that is managed
privately and has four campuses across United Kingdom. Currently, the college has nearly 4000
students studying courses in different fields. LSST aims to be recognized as a leading higher
education provider that is free from any kind of barriers of learning. But over the last couple of
years, the market has seen many new entrants entering the market which made the market very
competitive. This is posing a threat to London School of Science and Technology and can lead to
a negative pact on its overall performance (Canziani and Tullar, 2017). The target audience
LSST are students who have graduated from school and are seeking higher education in different
domains like Business and Management, IT and Computing, Social care etc. Due to entry of
new entrants in the market and offering similar education options to the students, LSST has been
facing intense competition. Seeing this, senior management of the college has decided explore
new potential markets instead to competing in the same market. This was also because the
number of students enrolling for education at the respective college as compared to previous
years also went down considerably.
Client’s requirements and the combined skills, expertise and experience of the team
After carefully assessing the business problem, the senior management of London School
of Science and Technology decided to enter new markets instead of continuing competing within
the existing market. The client is requirement to adopt online/distance learning so as to enter new