http://www.sourceforconsulting.com The Source for Consulting blog feed en-gb Source Syndication http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:06:19 +0000 http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/49 It came as something of a shock to me, as I was reading our recently published report on HR Consulting this afternoon, to discover the following... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:13:13 +0000 Edward Haigh http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/48 If we look for a moment at the UK consulting industry (every country is a bit different), we can divide it into three parts. On one side of... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:50:21 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/47 Consultants really dont help themselves sometimes. The word product is one most firms would like to steer clear of. They think it smacks... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:01:51 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/46 January is one of the high points of the consultant's year so far as business planning is concerned. For the firms whose financial year starts... Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:37:13 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/45 Like me, youre no doubt reeling from the revelation that Beatrix Potters The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse is actually a diatribe against consultants.... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:01:51 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/44 Internal consultants have a chequered history: one minute they are on the up, eager recipients of corporate largesse; the next they are on the... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:34:05 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/43 Recessions are extraordinarily effective tools for sorting winners from losers. Just as with retailers on the High Street, were seeing signs... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:28:58 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/42 Forget trying to sell.  You will be more successful if you can help your customers buy from you instead. Traditional sales logic says you... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:24:42 +0000 Paul Vincent http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/41 Recessions are supposedly great times for innovation. Companies, their backs against the economic wall, are forced to be creative; those that... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:03:51 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/40 People have been advising each other since the dawn of time, but it was only in the early twentieth century that they felt the need to band... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:32:41 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/39 Ive recently spent some time looking at the thought leadership produced by a selection of global consulting firms and, to be quite frank, I... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:39:43 +0000 Zoe Stumpf http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/38 Over the last 18 months, I (along with many other consultants) have worn out several pairs of shoes walking the pavements searching for clients.... Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:16 +0000 Rob Anderson, Co-Founder, Edengene http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/37 This week saw the publication of yet another warts-and-all autobiography from a former consultant, detailing the appalling way in which a consulting... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:45:50 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/36 During my corporate career I have had the relatively unique experience of operating as a Buyer, User, Approver and Supplier of consultancy services... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:14:47 +0000 Paul Vincent http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/35 I often hear my procurement friends and colleagues bemoan the fact that consultancy projects suddenly appear out of nowhere and require them... Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:53:36 +0000 Paul Vincent http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/34 Ive been asked whether my previous blog was an attack on the marketing functions within consulting firms: the answer is an unequivocal no.... Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:42:40 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/33 Organisations may need new inspiration and ideas, but the marketing departments of many consulting firms dont seem to have noticed. In our... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:55:46 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/32 Chatting to a couple of clients in the last week, a word came up that I hadnt heard for a while: multi-sourcing. The last time people really... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:03:11 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/31 I was chatting to Tim Morris, whos a professor at the Said Business School in Oxford and an expert on professional services, and we ended up... Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:05:12 +0000 Fiona Czerniawska http://www.sourceforconsulting.com/blog/30 Paul Vincent lead the transformation of BT's consultancy procurement and has since left to start his own venture, Insight Sourcing Solutions.... Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:50:09 +0000 Paul Vincent