An important trend in business in the last five years has come in the form of an enormous push to increase productivity by improving business processes. You could get involved in activity-based costing to get started. Business process reanalysis and design has been a large part of the consulting practice of many firms including:
A. T. Kearney
(Chicago, IL)
AT&T Solutions
(Chicago, IL)
Boston Consulting Group (Boston, MA)
Coopers & Lybrand
(New
York, NY)
CSC Index (Cambridge,
MA)
Ernst & Young (New York, NY)
Hackett Group (Hudson, OH)
JLA Consulting International
(Toronto, CA)
Price Waterhouse
Business Process
Reengineering Firms