Consulting
Many organisations regularly use consultancy services, for many good reasons
- A consultant may have skills in excess of those which are available in the organisation, because the organisation doesn’t usually need them.
- A consultant can be a source of new ideas, simply by being outside your company. His thinking is not constrained by company culture or politics.
- He has probably seen many different approaches to similar problems in different companies. He may have already done what you’re thinking of doing.
You may have wondered why you should employ an “expensive” consultant, when your staff are already very good, and you’re paying for them anyway. A good consultant will actually save money for your organisation:
- You can expect a consultant to provide benefits far in excess of the costs.
- You can use consulting in the decision phase, and replace them with permanent staff in the later stable phase.
- You can use a consultant to ‘level the gaps’ in your staff resourcing
- You pay no employment costs: benefits, NI, tax, bonuses, recruitment, redundancy.
- You are the customer!