Why do businesses use consultants?
Businesses use consultants for a huge range of activities and advice (too many to list here). However, some of the most common include: • Act as troubleshooters • Coaching, mentoring and general business advice • Act as a ‘sounding board’ for owner managers • Help develop business plans and business strategy • Help management develop or implement new systems • Provide an ‘independent’ professional view from outside the organization • Implement change – in any form • Assist in financial planning, including fundraising and exit strategy planning • Assist in developing marketing and sales strategies • Help with recruitment of senior staff • Specialist advice such as Health & Safety, COSHH, ISO9000-2000 etc. We can provide advice and practical help on a broad range of business areas.
To help the business find solutions or shape an action plan.
I want to talk with you exclusively about business consultants who work with small and medium-sized businesses, i.e. with enterprises with approximately 5 to 70 employees. This work is in many ways different from what the specialists do, who are attracted in such cases by large companies.
So, today it is impossible to imagine running a business without using software. Consequently, a business consultant must be oriented in the IT sphere, have knowledge of what solutions exist, which can be implemented to order, be able to set a task for a programmer, etc.
