The Accredited Consulting Practice designation recognizes management consulting firms who have committed to ensuring all consulting members of their firm meet/exceed professional standards as outlined by CMC-Global & its various national Institutes of Management Consulting.
Consulting firms that meet our audit standards and continue to advance in these aspects are granted the ability to use the ACP designation to distinguish their firm from others not meeting such standards. An ACP Branding/Logos “kit” is available from CMC-Global for IMC’s to distribute to ACP firms upon certification.
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ACP Firms commit to recruit, select and train consultants towards the CMC standards.
As their consultants are deemed “ready” by the firm, they can present their consultants as candidates for the CMC assessment process by the national institute of management consulting – with advanced standing for the ethics & final examinations, plus peer review. Each national Institute will be responsible for determining the final examinations and processes required for the ACP‘s consultants; yet will be required to ensure they meet the common standards expected.
The ACP Standard
During our 2012 – 13 major rewrite of the standards for the CMC designation, this also provided the opportunity to update the standards for achievement of the Accredited Consulting Practice designation and the process of assessing candidate practices. This is embodied in:
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