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Question Consultants have a reputation for recycling information, rather than adding value. What the tangible benefits can you offer?
Answer This is precisely why we bring a wealth of sector knowledge and practical experience, so that we can bring another perspective to the debate and challenge established thinking. We also have considerable expertise in bringing together a complex web of information and arguments into a structured decision making process, which ensures that all the key issues are addressed.
   
Question How do you justify the cost of a consulting exercise, when profitability is under pressure?
Answer Our experience is that a better defined market position accelerates business growth and reduces costs, by focusing expenditure on priority areas and cutting out peripheral activities. This is even more important when market conditions are tough.
   
Question Many consultancy projects seem to get bogged down in an over-elaborate and very costly data collection excercise, much of which is irrelevant to the decisions we have to make.
Answer We define the information needs as tightly as possible to inform the decision making process. We will rely as much as possible on information which is already available and only conduct additional research where there is a real prospect that it will make a tangible difference.
   
Question Consultants often seem wedded to a 'process' rather than to achieving a result.
Answer Our approach is designed to be flexible, focused on resolving the key issues and designing creative soloutions. We use processes but are not bound by them.
   
Question The recommendations of consulting projects are frequently too high level too impractical to be of any real value, leaving management without a clear plan of action.
Answer From our own experience of this sector, we know the devil is often in the detail and that high level strategy is useless if the practicalities have not been explored. We will work with management to ensure that all recommendations are actionable and we will support them in the implementation, as far as required
   
Question Consulting firms use their partners to sell the job, but too much of the work is delegated to junior staff
Answer

Most of our work is carried out at director level and we only use support staff in a support capacity