{"id":4207,"date":"2018-03-13T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:44:52","slug":"how-you-know-its-time-to-hire-an-interim-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/how-you-know-its-time-to-hire-an-interim-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"How you know it\u2019s time to hire an Interim Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column 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style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\">How you know it\u2019s time to hire an Interim Consultant<\/span><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>\u2026It\u2019s 6pm on a Friday and you are still in the office with a million other places you\u2019d rather be\u2026you\u2019ve got project overload, an over-stretched team and an increasingly limited budget.\u00a0 Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>You have a very limited number of options at this point (and I don\u2019t just mean retiring to the pub!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t have the budget or approval to hire a permanent employee;<\/li>\n<li>Engaging a major consulting firm would also annihilate an already overstretched budget;<\/li>\n<li>So that leaves a choice between piling more onto your existing team or exploring the benefits of an independent interim consultant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do you know whether to muddle through and manage within the existing team, or hire an interim consultant?\u00a0 In this article, I will outline how you can identify when the time is right to hire an interim consultant and why an interim consultant may be the optimum solution for you or your business.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\"><strong>Signs that its time<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard it said on the consulting grapevine, \u201c<em>Clients only use consultants when it gets\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>embarrassing<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0that something has not been done!<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 As amusing an anecdote as this may be, the real signs that you should consider using an interim consultant are when time is short, when budgets are tight and when you are aware you need external expertise to solve a particular problem or improve your business.<\/p>\n<p>I asked our B2E Business Development Director George Elkington his thoughts on this and he explained, \u201c<em>Clients usually choose to deploy transformation consultants when they want to improve process, structure, culture, people and or technology within their business\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, in essence, people choose to use interim consultants when they want to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>maintain control of both the outcome of and the approach to the project<\/li>\n<li>achieve best value for money<\/li>\n<li>gain access to the largest pool of available talent<\/li>\n<li>avoid the pitfalls of a \u201chidden agenda\u201d that can arise with alternative resourcing approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\"><strong>The age-old question &#8211; consulting firms or independent interim consultants?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Major consulting firms charge a large premium for their services.\u00a0 They harvest the cream of the graduate population, provide excellent training, have genuine global reach, and proven methodologies.\u00a0 But, you can expect highly leveraged teams with junior staff carrying the brunt of delivery, and a rigid adherence to their way of working.\u00a0 In turn, niche consultancies also charge a premium for their services and can bring genuine point expertise to bear.\u00a0 But, the \u201creal experts\u201d are in high demand and may not be able to devote as much time as you would like, and, by their very nature the point expertise they bring may not always span the full breadth of your requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the above will factor in to their pricing model the indirect overheads of running their organisations and the direct costs of their temporarily unassigned consultants.\u00a0 These factors alone can double the costs of their consultants even before any margin is applied to the price.<\/p>\n<p>Networked consulting organisations (like B2E Consulting) &#8211; have much in common with both major and niche consultancies.\u00a0 Many of the consultants in the networks are former employees of the major consulting firms, and so are also the cream of their graduate crop, and they too received the same excellent training.\u00a0 But, for them the climb to partner and the evolution of their role away from client delivery has lost its appeal, so they prefer to practice the consulting skills they have developed (away from the politics!). The commercial model through which they go to market offers a far more compelling proposition to companies, as they have virtually eliminated overheads and pay nothing for unassigned time.<\/p>\n<p>Independent consultants have varying backgrounds and are almost invariably available at a much lower price. And, if all you need are skilled practitioners to strengthen your team, then the carefully selected independent consultant may be exactly what you need.\u00a0 The good ones are highly skilled, easy to work with, focused, and will work hard for you, but be aware good teams rarely form naturally without some unifying element.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\"><strong>The 5 key benefits of an Interim Consultant<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There are 5 major benefits of using an interim consultant over embarking on a branded consulting engagement:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #f39200;\">Speed<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Interim consultants can typically start within days and create an immediate impact. \u00a0They are very adaptable and experienced in immersing themselves in a new organisation straight away and working at speed, meaning you\u2019ll start to see progress almost immediately.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #f39200;\">Experts\/ Knowledge Transfer<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Independent consultants can bring true SME (subject matter expert) knowledge.\u00a0 They tend to be experts in their field and are great for filling skills gaps in an existing project team or function.\u00a0 They will ensure that a project is carried out thoroughly and to the highest standards using well-known project methodologies.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #f39200;\">Impartiality<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Though interim consultants are open and adaptable to varying company cultures, they are also experts in separating their work from company politics or personalities. Being new to your business and coming on board to complete an assignment in a short amount of time will mean they will be strategic in their decision-making and impartial.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #f39200;\">Delivery<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>As interim managers are typically outcome focused and work tactically, they are great for delivering back to the board. They are also key for ensuring work is delivered on time and on budget, whilst working to ensure a good return on investment.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #f39200;\">Value for Money<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>And last but by no means least, in many cases an interim will manage their own business or will have experience in running P&amp;L through previous employment. Perhaps most importantly, an interim manager will know that there is an ROI figure attached to both themselves and the project they have been hired to execute. As stated above independent consultants are almost invariably available at a much lower price.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Paul Hutchison is one of our B2E Business Development leads and has engaged a large number of independent consultants during his time in industry.\u00a0 He echoed some of these benefits, saying of independent consultants \u201c<em>A side benefit was their independence from the politics that swirls around most companies, especially at times of change, so they could act as a pair of \u2018eyes and ears\u2019 for the Exec team\u2026I also saw value in external consultants being able to \u2018mentor\u2019 the internal staff as a by-product of their role.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\"><strong>The Gig Economy<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s almost as if the Gig Economy was built for interim consulting.\u00a0 In 2016, research by the European Forum of Independent Professionals showed the number of freelance workers in Europe had increased by 45% in just three years. As borderless teams, co-working spaces and freelancing are on the rise, the lines between corporate and gig life are becoming blurred. Both clients and consultants can benefit. Clients get their work at a lower cost; consultants have the benefit of greater flexibility in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>For consulting clients the flexibility of the gig economy is great news.\u00a0 They can get the benefit of experienced consultants to support specific projects.\u00a0 They bring learning from similar programmes either in the same or similar industries and are totally focused on the company\u2019s objectives.\u00a0 These benefits are reinforced by the findings from B2E\u2019s November 2017 survey of interim consultants in our network. <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/FBStv5\">Click here<\/a> to read the research findings which were also featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/VqZr3H\">Executive Grapevine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On 26 September, our own Maninder Murfin wrote about how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/time-grown-gig-economy\/\">Gig Economy<\/a> is transforming consulting. Emerging players and challenger consultancies in professional services are now linking independently minded people to high-end gigs.\u00a0 B2E is one of these challenger consultancies that use digital platforms to capture skills and preferences, communicate out roles and therefore enable their expert in-house team to rapidly match up its signed-up consultants with its client\u2019s specific needs. They also counter feelings of isolation by investing in events and fostering personal contact within their vibrant community.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #515d7a;\"><strong>What next?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Hopefully I have piqued your interest in finding out more about hiring independent consultants and looking beyond the \u2018Big 5\u2019. At B2E Consulting we offer immediate access to high calibre, expert consultants by leveraging our B2E community of over 24,000 talented individuals at significantly lower cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out more about hiring an interim consultant and how B2E Consulting can help.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-recent-works fusion-portfolio-element fusion-portfolio fusion-portfolio-1 fusion-portfolio-masonry fusion-portfolio-paging-none fusion-portfolio-one fusion-portfolio-no_text\" data-id=\"-rw-1\" data-columns=\"one\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-portfolio-1 .fusion-portfolio-wrapper .fusion-col-spacing{padding:0px;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-portfolio-wrapper\" id=\"fusion-portfolio-1\" data-picturesize=\"auto\" data-pages=\"1\" style=\"margin:-0px;\"><article class=\"fusion-portfolio-post fusion-grid-sizer\"><\/article><article id=\"portfolio-1-post-2188\" class=\"fusion-portfolio-post julie-crawford team fusion-col-spacing post-2188 fusion-element-landscape fusion-element-portrait\"><div class=\"fusion-portfolio-content-wrapper\" style=\"border:none;\"><span class=\"entry-title rich-snippet-hidden\">JULIE CRAWFORD<\/span><span class=\"vcard rich-snippet-hidden\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/author\/natalie-collingwood\/\" title=\"Posts by Natalie Collingwood\" rel=\"author\">Natalie Collingwood<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n\n<div  class=\"fusion-masonry-element-container fusion-image-wrapper\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie.png);padding-top:calc((100% + 0px) * 0.8);\" aria-haspopup=\"true\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/portfolio-items\/julie-crawford\/\" aria-label=\"JULIE CRAWFORD\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2675\" height=\"2675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Julie Crawford headshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Julie.png 2675w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 2200px) 100vw, (min-width: 640px) 1083px, \" \/>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><blockquote>\n<p>About the author, Julie Crawford<\/p>\n<p>Julie joined B2E in 2015 and is one of our Role Consultants.\u00a0 In this role, she sources the best people within our community for a variety of business &amp; technology consulting roles.\u00a0 Prior to this Julie spent 7 years with Accenture specialising in Strategy, CRM and Process change, with a specific focus on the Travel Industry. She went on to lead the EMEA Hotel Solutions Group and later the UK Meetings and Events Department for Carlson Wagonlit Travel over a 7-year period.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,72,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-consulting","category-gig-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b2econsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}