ASSIGNMENT 1: CONSULTING APPROACHES A: Please identify the right category of consulting services for the problems listed below. Do so according to all of the classification criteria, i.e. conceptual/systemic, internal/external, core/periphery, type of core (individual/team, role) or periphery (field of competence, role). Provide a sound rationale for your choices. 1. As the EU announced plans to reduce natural gas imports from Russia, a the COO of a paper company now has the challenge that he has to quickly find new ways to supply the European plants with affordable energy. Therefore, he seeks consulting support. 2. An automotive supplier is about to finish the 4 year process of building a new high-tech production site. The plan was to shut down the nearby site and redeploy the existing workforce. Now it turns out, that neither skill nor will are sufficient. Important experts have already left the company. The success of this biggest investment in the company history depends on solving this issue. B: Analyze https://www.bearingpoint.com/en-us/about-us/ and identify the characteristics that qualify this company as either a systemic or conceptual consultancy. C: Your client wants you to redesign the sales process. It is supposed to be streamlined. Inside sales will be cut by 20%. A new CRM system will be put in place. Outline the specific challenges in this project and how you allocate these challenges to the systemic and to the conceptual consulting approach. Pick one challenge for each approach and explain how each method will work to overcome the challenge.