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Review the main steps in the process of managing the sourcing of Consulting projects, from defining the needs, formalizing all the elements in the RFP, assessing the written proposals, getting closer to selecting the best provider, managing, and terminating contracts?
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Explore how companies that are managing a significant number of Consulting projects can professionalize the management of their Consulting Spend and capture quick gains by implementing a simple set of actions.
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Identify the key areas where you need to focus your efforts to maximize the Value you will get from the project. Many organizations focus on the negotiation stage when aligning the objectives, scoping and sourcing the right consultants is what creates more Value.
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Consulting Procurement Organizations should aim to reach a high level of maturity, where the team is using best-in-class practices and brings significant efficiency gains for the Procurement group and company as a whole. But before an organization can draw its path to excellence, it must first evaluate where it stands today on the Maturity Grid. Understanding the starting point of your Consulting Procurement Journey is probably as important as defining where you want to go.
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Understand how companies can generate more value through Consulting by aligning their Consulting Spend with their Strategy
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Surprisingly only 7% of executives feel well-prepared to manage their consulting projects. Don't be among the 93% of procurement executives who miss advantages of the disruption underway, by being unaware of the best practices.
Whether you plan to buy a single project or already utilize consulting regularly, these strategies will absolutely transform your approach. Designed for executives and consulting buyers, by experts in buying and using consulting services.
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From the Consulting Wiki Hall of Fame — Summer Special Part 3
We have handpicked a collection of our best articles from the Consulting Wiki Hall of Fame. In our summer special (part 3), this week, we are letting our readers re-visit our article on the right structure for consulting fees. -
From the Consulting Wiki Hall of Fame — Summer Special Part 2
We have handpicked a collection of our best articles from the Consulting Wiki Hall of Fame. In our summer special (part 2), this week, we are letting our readers re-visit our article on evaluating the quality of consulting proposals. -
12 Essential elements to include in your consulting agreement
When you launch a project, you can always hope that the consultant will understand your needs. Or you can write down the reasons why you start a project and what results you expect. Writing an RFP is not easy -
Management Consultants Salary – Best of 2022
The average management consultants salary is $85,000 per year. However, salaries can vary widely depending on experience, location, and industry. However, the job can be demanding, with long hours and frequent travel. -
What is an RFP and why should you care?
To ensure success and achieve the company goals, the RFP is an essential document. But what is an RFP, and why you should really care about it so much? Also, what are the key elements of a good RFP and why should you introduce your company to an RFP for consulting services? -
How To Use Consultants For Your Business?
To enhance the performance of your business, it is more or less mandatory to leverage management consulting so that your business can reach greater heights. Thus, in order to know how to do that, you'll need to know the 'why', 'when', and 'how' to use consultants to grow your business and scale greater heights. -
Leverage consulting to accelerate the execution of your Strategy
Strategy consulting has progressively shifted its focus from defining strategy to executing it. As a result, strategy consulting has become increasingly specialized at the crossroads of function and industry. That is why the need to leverage consulting by accelerating the execution of strategy is so critical and important because this helps boost the overall performance of the business.
Whether you plan to buy a single project or already utilize consulting regularly, these guides will transform your approach.
Have you ever found yourself browsing a consultant website and wondering: “what do they concretely do? What problems do they solve? And what are they actually good at?”
The good news if we can refer to it this way is that you are not alone. For companies that are helping others to define their value proposition, sharpen their strategy and optimize their marketing budgets, many consulting firms are quite slow to embrace the internet and even more social media.
So to facilitate your future browsing we have tried in this chapter to give you an overview of the key dimensions that characterize the DNA of a consulting firm.
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Beyond the traditional model like GLG, Third Bridge, Alphasight, or Guidepointe, new business models have emerged in the expertise-on-demand such as Machine-driven Expert Networks such as NewtonX, techspert or proSapient.
In this Guide, we present a list of these networks including the website link and the industries served
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