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ISO 20700 Guidelines for management consultancy services is an international standard developed for use as a guideline for people or organizations for the effective management of management consulting services.^[1] The standard offers practical guidelines to both clients and management consultants to ensure both parties are clear on what is required for an effective and efficient consultancy process, the objectives and their respective responsibilities.^[2]

The standard was developed by ISO project committee ISO/PC 280.^[3] ISO 20700 was published for the first time in 2017.^[4]

In 2018, CEN published EN ISO 20700:2018 and withdrew EN 16114 in 2019.^[5]

ISO 20700 correlates with EN 16114.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Main requirements of the standard edit

The ISO 20700:2017 adopt the following structure:

Purpose
Normative references
Terms and definitions
Principles
Contracting
Execution
Closure

References edit

^ "ISO 20700:2017". Iso.org. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
^ "Consultants" (PDF). CMC Mentorship. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
^ Naden, Clare (9 May 2016). "Taking management consultancy services to another level". ISO. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ "ISO 20700". ISO 20700. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ "CEN - Technical Bodies -". standards.cen.eu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ "Annual Meeting of Delegates: Astana 2017". ICMCI. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ "Ennsfellner Consulting - Beratungsnorm". www.ennsfellnerconsulting.eu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
^ Ennsfellner, Ilse (2014). Exzellenz in der Unternehmensberatung Qualitätsstandards für die Praxis Inklusive der EN 16114. Robert Bodenstein, Josef Herget. Wiesbaden: Imprint: Springer Gabler. ISBN 978-3-658-01462-9. OCLC 862045243.