Blog categorized as Consulting

Do management consultancies have a place?

When was the last time you took a step back and checked how much you spend on external consultancy fees? Do you ever justify it by saying that you’re paying for expertise or the backing of a large consultancy that’s done it before? What about the ease with which you can just buy it in? Have you been...

How do you spot when a consultancy is just looking for the next sale?

Consultancies exist to make money. They need to sell their services for survival. Whether they have dedicated sales departments or not, the entire organisation is sales focused aiming to make more money from your organisation at every opportunity. Every developer placed by a consultancy into your or...

Consulting is dead, long live consulting

The management consulting machine is long overdue a reformation. Consulting has been reinventing the wheel, recommending alternating approaches to delivery and different architectural models depending on what needs to become more popular to drive future revenue. Disruption has been recommended like ...

Consulting 2.0 - Time for Change

Management consulting is the delivery of one or more services comprised of advice, people, processes or technology into a client organisation in order to improve that organisation, either in terms of capability, efficiency or growth. That all sounds great, so why is it not working any more?


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Addressing Common Concerns With Management Consultancies

Many companies hesitate to bring in management consultancies due to familiar complaints—exorbitant costs, generic solutions, a lack of long-term accountability, and consultants who remain detached from the day-to-day business. At Forwd , we’ve built a model that directly counters these concerns, ens...