Product development consultancy Cambridge Consultants had this in mind when they developed their new automatic gear-shifting system for performance bicycles called The Connected Bike.
Saffron Fidgett is a career consultant and founder of Career Circus Ltd, a career development consultancy which helps young professionals develop their leadership skills, enterprising thinking and global ways of working.
Mott MacDonald, a UK-based management, engineering and sustainable development consultancy, has acquired AWT, a specialist water technology and consulting company based in New Zealand and Australia.
That sticky privilege belongs to landlords, to property developers, to local councillors moving seamlessly into well-paid jobs in "development consultancy" – in the end, not to young white men with beards, but middle-aged white men in suits.
Kevin Harris runs the Local Level community development consultancy and writes the Neighbourhoods blog.
Her father is the president of Eland, Brookbanks, Vector, a product development consultancy in New York.
Sherwyn Singh is the head of practice at people development consultancy, Fairplace Cedar.
Joseph Folkman is the president of Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy.
The Lambesis Research Group, a brand-development consultancy, was hired by one TV maker to figure out what motivates buyers.
Those struggling would-be leaders might be well served by reading a 2006 piece by Robert Kaiser and Robert Kaplan, of Kaplan DeVries, an executive-development consultancy.
That year Carana, a global economic-development consultancy (since acquired by Palladium), initiated a project aimed at creating a supply chain that could bring small maize farmers into the mainstream regional economy.
