CMC (IIMC) case studies
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The Certified Management Consultant (CMC®) is the credential IMC USA awards to management consultants in the United States, and IMC USA describes itself as the recognized certifying body in the U.S. for the designation. The CMC case studies are 5 cases and about 4,193 words.
1The Shortlist That Wasn't Independent
You run a two-person consultancy. A regional logistics group with 900 staff and €180m revenue has engaged you for a €48,000 fixed fee over 10 weeks to run a competitive selection for a warehouse management system: requirements, scoring model, vendor demos, and a recommendation to the board.
834 words, about 4 min2The Fixed Fee That Kept Growing
You are five weeks into a 12-week operating model review for a 1,800-person industrial components manufacturer, fixed fee £95,000, staffed by you plus one associate. The agreed scope is current-state process mapping across three plants, an external benchmark, and a target operating model concept.
832 words, about 4 min3The Number the Board Already Believes
You are three weeks from a board presentation for a listed specialty chemicals group. You were engaged for €120,000 to build the capital case for a €40m debottlenecking project at one of the group's four plants.
833 words, about 4 min4The Request Beyond the Boundary
You are a sole practitioner specialising in operating model design and process improvement. A 600-person insurance broker has engaged you for a 10-week operating model review at €45,000, and you are two weeks in.
856 words, about 4 min5Whose Data Is the Benchmark?
Two years ago you ran a benchmarking study for a retail bank, Client A. You brought a pre-existing cost-to-income methodology into the engagement; the bank paid for data collection, and the resulting compiled dataset of 40 anonymised peer data points belongs to them under the contract.
838 words, about 4 min