CMCE Research Awards 2022
We announced the winners of our 2022 Research Awards at this online event. The awards celebrate research into various aspects of management consulting and support our aim of sharing new and emerging practice amongst our community and the wider industry.
This year we were delighted to welcome Professor Michael Mainelli as our guest speaker. As co-founder of Z/Yen, the City of London's leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, which promotes societal advance through better finance and technology, he is well-placed to offer a personal view on how research can inform excellent practice.
CMCE exists to promote the adoption of leading and emerging practice by stimulating innovative thinking and whilst this event is a celebration, it's also an opportunity for an introduction to thinking that's at the cutting edge. If you want to be informed about the future of the consulting profession, then this is the place to be.
The 2022 CMCE Research Awards provided an opportunity to celebrate some excellent research into management consultancy. The panel of judges felt that the award winners all shed light on areas of the profession in need of more examination and had all written papers with a direct practical application. Below are the winners and links to their works or follow-on reading that they suggested during the course of the event.
The changing environment for the consultant
Winner:
The tensions of defining and developing thought leadership within knowledge-intensive firms. William Harvey, Vince-Wayne Mitchell, Alessandra Almeida Jones, Eric Knight
A short summary of the paper is here and full access is here.
Client-consultant Relationships
Winner:
Professional Fluidity: Reconceptualising the Professional Status of Self-Employed Neo-professionals. David Cross, Juani Swart
The paper can be found here.
Technology and consulting
Winner:
What are the implications of virtualisation for building trust during the management consultancy lifecycle? Luca Collina
The original paper is in the June 2021 edition of the Management Consulting Journal.
The further reading recommended by Luca Collina is here.
Urwick Prize
Winner:
The Governance of Management Consultancy Use: Practices, Problems, and Possibilities
Andrew Sturdy.
The paper can be found here.
Further reading – a policy paper on the regulation of management consultancy – can be downloaded here.
A video of the event is available here.
Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Ltd.
Michael has published over 50 journal papers, 200 professional articles, and four books. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor.
In addition to his work in Z/Yen, Michael is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Life Fellow of Gresham College; non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (national standards body) and AIM-listed Wishbone Gold plc; Alderman for Broad Street Ward of the City of London Corporation; City & Guilds Council; Trustee of Morden College; Fellow of Goodenough College, Honorary Fellow of King's College London, and Visiting Professor at the UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management.
Michael was elected one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London 2019-2021; the first time since 1228 that two Sheriffs served consecutive terms. Michael is a Freeman of the City of London, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and a Freeman of the Company of Watermen & Lightermen, as well as an Honorary Liveryman of the Furniture Makers, Water Conservators, Marketors, Tax Advisers, International Bankers, and Management Consultants, and an Honorary Freeman of the Educators.
