From an outside perspective, it can sometimes be hard to gauge why companies would need external consultants to help their already successful business or identify the problems with their organisation, and to fix them. The old joke about consultants is that they borrow your watch to tell you the time, but in actual fact, there are many reasons companies really need consultants to help address some of the most complex changes facing the business world.
Here are our 8 top factors which often play into clients hiring consultants:
02.03.2021
Strategy
In construction the phrase 'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail' is well known, or at least it is in our book. Through our experience, poor planning and preparation have proven to be one of the key reasons for failure or a difficult project. If you are on the back foot to start with, the chances are you will be for the remainder of the project, which will mean that you have a reactive instead of proactive style of management, because you will not have sufficient time to look and plan ahead. This is us speaking from experience, and not for reasons created by ourselves, but for being part of a larger project team or witnessing it within other contractors.
23.07.2019
Pre-Construction