Research-Based Consulting

While they may be very good at basic research many higher education students teachers or even professors around the world have never been in contact with applications of theoretical concepts they learn teach or develop. Without real-world experience it is a great challenge to get to a customer-centric solution or a recommendation for contextual specific and often urgent problems. The research-Based Consulting (RBC) process proposed in this book is intended to ease bridging this gap between basic and applied research. RBC introduces a process for delivering customer-centric acceptable immediately implementable with an appropriate level of rigor recommendations. This book is written to offer a practical guide to researcher-consultants from students to professionals for solving various types of contextual specific problems. Designed as a metro or train journey with two lounges three zones and eight stations it turns the challenge of solving practical problems into an agreeable process. Distilled from three decades of experience both in industry and academia the RBC process is field-tested with students young professionals and start-ups. This book aims to make explicit often tacit RBC skills. This makes RBC easy to acquire and transfer. It is an ideal supplement for preparing undergraduates graduate students and young professionals to be trusted problem solvers who act logically and examine issues critically.