Introduction

As the inaugural Head of Publications for the ISCG, I am delighted to announce that our members will be regularly posting articles on topics pertinent to consulting and business over the coming months. We have had a record-breaking year by any metric. Membership has grown exponentially and the ISCG has surpassed all other student consulting groups in terms of projects completed. As a result, our members are more than capable of producing original content that showcases their abilities.

Mindful of Ernest Hemingway’s reflection, ‘As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand’, the publications team will be collating content from our branches that seeks to enlighten the reader as well as enrich the experience of being an ISCG member. The articles will be erudite and incisive, the contributors will approach topics as they have approached client projects: full of curiosity and vision.

The ISCG is increasingly aware of a need to produce student consultants that are equally comfortable with quantitative and qualitative data. The writing process will develop the skills required. The journalism of yesterday has become the data journalism of today, all human endeavours produce complex data sets. Of these endeavours, the act of doing business produces the most interesting. Fueled by mathematics and psychology, business decisions offer a fascinating insight into the human mind.

Forthcoming articles will be predominantly based on technology as members consider what a post-pandemic world will look like. There is a sense society is on the cusp of a great change. Our members have worked with a vast array of businesses through the pandemic and thus have been given a front row seat to this shift. Their views will therefore be grounded in experience and the knowledge developed in the wide range of degree programmes members pursue. As the project progresses, the body of work will encompass all aspects of business and entrepreneurship. The best articles will appear in the first issue of ‘The Student Consultant’, the world’s first student-run consulting publication.

I hope you are as excited about this project as I am.

Robert