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THE Indian consultancy services industry has come a long way from its fledgling roots in the early ‘50s. With new skill sets, capabilities and expertise emerging, the industry has evolved from being the provider of low value consultancy services to an industry capable of providing sophisticated services across the world.
The spectrum of consultancy firms has been characterised by a variety of professional backgrounds such as engineering, accounting, law and banking. It can be seen that development of this industry is largely dependent on the development trends of the country. Consultancy organisations in India can be classified into broader categories such as management consultancy organisations, engineering consultancy organisations and others, which include financial consultancy organisations, socioeconomic consultancy organisations, individual experts and professionals.
Today, in India, consultancy is provided across all the major sectors including agriculture and rural development, banking and finance, construction, education, energy, environment, governance and administration, geology and mining, health and demography, insurance, information technology, law and regulation, life sciences, manufacturing, management, science and technology, tele-communication, tourism, transport, urban development, water-management, among various others.
Courses Available in Consultancy
The Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), an autonomous institution of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) of ministry of science and technology is working towards development and promotion of the consultancy profession in the country, strengthening consultancy skills and capabilities including export of services and process co-operation with other countries.
 CDC has designed a few executive development programmes to meet career aspirations of professionals as well as bridge the gap in skill-sets that companies require. Contact classes are conducted on weekends for the convenience of working executives.
The application forms for the certificate courses can be downloaded from CDC website and the last date for applying for the next batch is June 25. For more visit www.cdc.org.in
The courses on offer include MS in consultancy management, in collaboration with BITS, Pilani (two years, four semesters, contact classes at eight cities across the country). Other courses include a certificate programme in consulting skills (three months) and a certificate programme in technical consulting (three months).The last date for applying for the new batch of MS programme is June 3. |
