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Public and private sector organisations are spending huge amounts of money buying professional services, and most are doing it badly, without sufficiently rigorous procurement processes or an adequate understanding of the marketplace, resulting in wasted money and disappointing outcomes.Even among those organisations with formal procurement processes and techniques, many are applying them inappropriately and therefore achieve similarly poor results. On the other ...
There's scarcely a major company that does not use consultants and the public sector is increasingly turning to consultants for help in delivering public services. Three-quarters of consulting work in done for clients where the consulting firm has an established relationship. Yet the business consulting industry has changed beyond recognition in the past ten years. The spread of outsourcing and off shoring, the rise of the professional procurement department, ...