How to choose a consultant
© 2004, Coert Visser & René Butter Nowadays many organizations find it important to go about hiring consultants critically and consciously. Hiring them too easily or uncritically can lead to too high costs and possibly to becoming too dependent on consultants. Furthermore, carelessly choosing a consultant can lead to disappointment about his approach and its results. This article offers you a few ideas to help you determine whether a consultant fits well or not with your organization. The article first outlines our view on successful consultancy projects. Next, you will find a checklist to help you select a consultant on the basis of an intake conversation. And finally, we offer some practical tips about how to evaluate the effectiveness of running or finished consultancy projects. Successful consultancy Roughly three factors cause the effectiveness of consultancy. Those are – in decreasing importance -: Client-specific factors: the most important category of factors has to do wit...