Consulting is a Continuation of Strategies (604)
by Daniel on September 30, 2009
Everyone Pepperdine Policy grad remembers taking strategies, a course focused on structured policy analysis and techniques that can be applied to real world problems. Prior to this course, the majority of the coursework was very theoretical and philosophical. The culmination of the coursework converges when the theory meets the application, resulting in one of the most intense and painful classes. Week after week, we develop issue statement memos, present our analysis and recommendations, and put our knowledge to work.
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Compare that to the Real World
As a consultant at a management consulting firm that specializes in performance evaluations based on the GAO model, I find that my work mirrors the course work in strategies. We use a similar issues, criteria, options, recommendations approach. Both classroom and actual world application essentially boils down to developing a defendable and useable framework for analyzing the issue and developing practical and positive changing recommendations.
How work is done whether in academia or in private sector consulting isn’t all that different. We write proposals, scope and plan, design and implement, report and defend. The terminology may be different and the motives and incentives may slightly differ, but the overall process is very similar.
Daniel has written 37 articles. Daniel Hoang is a Manager at IntelliBridge Partners, the consulting arm of Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP, a West Coast accounting, audit, tax, and business consulting firm. He advises his clients to improve their operations to efficiently and effectively manage its resources. Formerly an auditor at the California Bureau of State Audits, he performed numerous evaluations of government programs and management practices. Daniel also was the lead resource in several city and county IT strategic planning engagements as a consultant for an IT firm in Bellevue, WA.
In addition to his broad experience with many governmental issues, he brings a unique and creative perspective to his work. A graduate of Pepperdine University, School of Public Policy, he integrates his foundation in American government frameworks and analytical tools from RAND professors and researchers.
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