Some notes I jotted down while browsing a consulting text by Fiona Czerniawska. Some of the thoughts are hers, some are mine. Useful considerations for risk consultants:
- Consulting is about knowledge transfer from consultant to client.
- When deciding which consultant to hire, companies look for enormous depth of knowledge in the areas their company is interested in. General knowledge does not cut it.
- Of all consultancies, process oriented ones are where executives are least impressed because the client and consultant level of expertise is not much different, and ‘consulting’ work is mostly facilitation.
- Some (not all) consulting engagements are about solving a problem.
- Some types of consulting services:
- delivering a specific service
- implementing a particular system
- creating a successful solution
- Firms hire consultants because they need the input but don’t want to replicate the skill. They don’t need the skill in-house on a permanent basis.
- Consultants provide new energy and momentum.
- Consultants are hired as a source of best practice information not available in-house.
- Consultants are also hired to provide championing of a sponsor’s project internally, something that sometimes is not possible from someone internal.
- The depth of knowledge required from a consultant is specialist knowledge.
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