ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the period 1929-1939 and whilst it parallels part of time-frame associated with the previous, this is necessary in order to re-visit some of those years to view what else was going on within consultancy. The period commences in 1929 when the first wholly-owned British management consultant company was formed, Harold Whitehead and Staff, and ends at that point in time when Britain entered into a period of protracted military conflict on global scale. The eleven-year period of 1929 to 1939 was significant for management consulting because it represented a watershed in Britain. The structure of management consultancy in mid-1920s, such as it was, began to change irreversibly with the arrival of Bedaux company. The Bedaux company concentrated on direct production efficiency and payment incentive schemes. The chapter is concerned with providing an account of a period of growth in which management consulting began to expand on a limited scale in Britain through creation of three home-grown consultancies.
