L&A Speaks

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It’s true that the most successful businesses in the world are heavily supported by consultants who are experts in various fields.  It is one of the keys to the success of today's top organizations, and it is the same thing that world-class athletes and musical artists do.  They invest in consulting and avoid the trial-and-error route or "re-inventing the wheel” to save the dollars and time in blunders instead they walk the road to success much more quickly because they learn from the experience of others.  The motivations for consulting can be described as such:

• Achieving the aims and objectives of the organization
• Solving managerial and business problems
• Discovering and evaluating new opportunities
• Implementing changes  

ACHIEVE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION

• All management and business consulting have one overarching goal: to assist customers in making their businesses more efficient in ways that improve profitability or minimize losses. These objectives can be achieved in a variety of ways including increasing customer satisfaction or total productivity, reducing fraud or theft, increasing efficiency, introducing automation, and others.  

• The consultant's primary contribution could be to assist the client in developing a future vision, setting ambitious but reasonable goals, developing a strategy, focusing on results, and beginning to consider present problems and opportunities in light of the goals longer-term and more important to the company. 

SOLVE MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS

• The most commonly stated goal in consulting is to assist directors, managers, and other decision-makers in solving problems as a trusted advisor.  The role of the consultant is defined as expert assistance in identifying, diagnosing and resolving problems in many domains and facets of management and business.  As a result, consultants are often referred to as "business doctors," "company healers," or "trouble solvers." 

• Consultancy with a narrow focus on corrective actions targeted at restoring a prior state or meeting a standard already met by other businesses might yield significant benefits that are desperately needed.  

DISVOER AND EVALUATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES

• Many businesses hire consultants to find and exploit new opportunities. a successful and forward-thinking company with ambitions has 'problems': the desire to increase its competitive edge, to be a sector leader, to not miss a new marketing opportunity, to find a new business partner, or explore new technologies.  

• These organizations see consulting firms as a source of valuable information and ideas that can lead to a variety of initiatives, innovations, and improvements in any sector or function of the business, such as promoting new markets and products, evaluating, and implementing advanced technologies, improving quality, providing more useful services to clients, promoting and motivating employees, making the best use of financial resources, and discovering new business opportunities.

BEING THE CHANGE AGENT

• Another term used to describe consultants is "change agent", and you need someone to be focused on implementing the changes you want to see to improve your business.  And they're proud of it because it underscores another core goal of the firm: assisting clients in understanding change, adapting to it, and implementing the innovations required to thrive.  

• Projects around change management help improve adoption of the new processes limits human error which increases the quality of your service and makes it easier for new employees to do their work.  Facilitating training sessions for your team on any new policies or procedures it ideal so that everyone feels comfortable about what they need to do.