Smart Consulting Sourcing

How the top 5 spending industries are leveraging consultants?

In today’s world, consultants strive to stay on the cutting-edge of knowledge by evolving and enhancing their expertise. Clients get the best out of the consultants but even consultants are benefiting from this as they get to build better portfolios and ensure long-term success.
On this week’s Smart consulting sourcing podcast, I will explain how the top 5 industry are leveraging consulting.
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What is the value created by consultants?

What is the value for a consulting project? Are procurement and business leaders talking the same language? Are we talking about savings? Cost avoidance? Or is it the impact of the project on the business?    
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I want to talk about the value created by consultants.
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Reverse auctions and how they apply to sourcing consulting services

Basically, reverse auctions are a type of bidding process where suppliers undercut each other and progressively reduce their price. Do you know how, the seller lists a product at X dollars and you find yourself competing with other buyers to get the product for more than the previous bidder?  
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I will share with you my thoughts on reverse auctions and how they apply to sourcing consulting services.
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How to involve your stakeholders in choosing the right consulting services?

When you launch a project, be it a project involving consultants or not, managing change from a project perspective is necessary and convince your stakeholders that this project is essential. Who are the stakeholders exactly?
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I want to convince you that you must involve all your stakeholders in choosing the right consulting services.
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Implement demand management for consulting services.

Demand management is a term used in business to describe the process of managing demand to achieve business objectives. It is also used to describe the demand management practices of supply chains, which are used primarily to prioritize demand fulfillment and improve demand visibility.
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I explain how to manage demand management for consulting services.
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How to manage the relationships with your consulting suppliers?

Like for any other category, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a Huge Topic for Consulting Services. The way Procurement manages Consulting Providers should fit in the overall SRM practices for the company.
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I explain to manage the relationships with your consulting suppliers.
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How to work with consultants?

Managing a consulting project is, first and foremost, about managing a project. You will need to manage three aspects to increase the likelihood of success: manage the stakeholders, manage the project and manage the change.
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I explain how to work with consultants.
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Consulting fees and rates

How do consulting firms build their prices? What is the cost breakdown of a consulting firm? Understanding the different fee structures and when to use them is key to create more value when buying consulting services.
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I talk about consulting fees and rates.
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What is consulting?

Consulting is often defined as giving expert advice to other professionals. True, but I think it is a bit simplistic. Because sometimes the consultants don't give advice: they do the work !
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I want to define what is consulting.  
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5 Real-Life Lessons About Consulting Sourcing

Sourcing doesn't start when you select the consultants you want to work with. It starts with a problem you want to solve. You could say sourcing starts even before you identify the projects that are sourcing candidates. 
On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, I provide 5 Real-Life Lessons About Consulting Sourcing.  
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