Consulting Intelligence is not your typical consulting firm.  As  client-side meta consultants -- consultants on consultants -- we help organizations understand, anticipate and prevent any problems they might have with consultants or consulting firms.

If you've ever lived through a "troubled" consulting project -- or worse -- you know the importance of being thoroughly prepared. Your staff needs the appropriate skills and competencies and you need to be sure you have engaged an appropriate consultant. The key is knowledge.

We offer confidential and discreet services to help you proactively transform your organization in each of the following areas:

Readiness Assessment    Do you have the right policies, processes, organization and infrastructure in place to be able to intelligently manage your consulting resources?  Based on your anticipated use of consultants, we’ll assess your organization’s current capabilities and show you how you compare to other, well prepared organizations.  If requested, we can recommend specific initiatives to help you prepare your organization to more effectively deal with external consultants.

Consulting Firm Evaluation Assistance   Most organizations want a highly qualified consultant who will work in their organization's best interests.  Finding the "right" consultant is important, if not essential.  We ensure you're using a sound approach and current best practices to locate and evaluate consultants.
 
Contract Negotiation Assistance   We can assist you throughout the contract negotiation process.  We'll ensure desired outcomes are clearly defined and the consulting methods proposed to accomplish them -- including work breakdown structures, work products and deliverables -- are properly and adequately described.  We utilize our experience and expertise to ensure the anticipated costs and other contract terms conform to industry norms and conventions.  And, we ensure the contract terms provide you with meaningful recourse to protect your interests in the event it is needed.

Capability and Competency Assessments   We can assess individuals, teams or entire departments within your organization to determine their level of capability and competence to work with external consultants.  The results of our assessment process can help you select the right individuals to place on your project teams, the people who'll be working directly with the consultants on a day-to-day basis.  These results can also highlight areas for additional staff education or training.  In addition, we can apply this expertise to the members of the team being proposed by the chosen consultants.

Staff Education and Training   We can deliver education and training online, offline or in person.  Our objective is to ensure your internal team members have the knowledge and skills required to be an effective internal participant in a consulting engagement.

Project Assessments and Oversight   Whether you ask us to assess a project that you believe might be in trouble, participate in occasional oversight of a critical project, function as a member of a project steering committee or provide an independent PMI certified Project Manager on site, we give you the appropriate level of assistance required to ensure your consulting engagement is on track and conforming to the contract you've negotiated.

If it concerns consultants -- and you're even a little bit concerned -- it's time to contact Consulting Intelligence.