ABSTRACT
Introduction Unless you are a newly minted master of business administration (MBA), you most likely started work with a hospital or a company. As your career progressed and you gained both knowledge and experience, you may have begun to entertain thoughts of becoming a consultant and running your own firm. This may be especially true if your organization has engaged an outside consulting firm and you have been working with their consultants. You may believe you are as qualified and perhaps more qualified than some of the consultants. Perhaps your position or department has been eliminated in a downsizing or you have recently retired. In this chapter, we will discuss founding a management engineering consulting firm and several of the questions you will have to answer in order to determine if this is the right step for you, at least at this time.
