The origins and development of management consulting - Third field of consultancy

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What is the third field of consultancy? And in which year did this come up? And what became popular which led to the rise of this type of consulting?

IT Consultancy. It came up in the 1950s. Mainframe computing became popular.

Which organisation became big in this period of time, and why?

IBM became a big organisation, because they were the first to mass-produce mainframes.

What regulation in the 1950s prohibited IBM and other computer manufacturers from entering the emerging field of information technology (IT) consultancy?

US Anti-trust legislation computer consultancy.
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List 2 prominent firms in the IT consultancy.

  1. Arthur Anderson
  2. CagGemini

Who entered the IT consultancy?

Accounting firms, which were banned from management audits due to the 1930s regulations.

In what year was the anti-trust suit against IBM dropped, which allowed them to enter the IT consultancy market?

1982

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