How to Use a Consultant in Your Company: A Managers' and Executives' Guide

ISBN-13: 9780471387275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

John J. McGonagle;McGonagle;Vella

Opis

Obtain the Best Consulting Services for Your Business

In this chaotic age of new technologies, downsizing, and reengineering, managers and executives are relying more and more on the consultant. Hiring the right consultants for your company and making effective use of them is a vital skill, and yet there has been a lack of guidance on this topic-until now.

How to Use a Consultant in Your Company delivers expert advice and practical guidelines on how to successfully create and manage the client/consultant relationship-to your advantage. John McGonagle and Carolyn Vella provide up-to-the-minute information on:
* Defining your consulting needs
* Finding and selecting the right consultants
* Managing the paper trail-corporate policies, contracting issues
* Working with an individual consultant or an entire firm
* Handling disputes, lawsuits, and complaints
* Evaluating consultants


Including forms and other materials for help in developing formal policies, billing procedures, and more that you can adapt to fit your own situation, How to Use a Consultant in Your Company is the one-book-fits-all solution for anyone responsible for getting the most out of their company's consultant.

Spis treści

Introduction.

Consulting: The Big Picture.

The Paper Trail: Corporate Policies.

The Paper Trail: Contracting Issues.

What Are Your Consulting Needs?

Budget and Financial Issues.

Finding and Selecting the Right Consultants.

Beginning the Consulting Relationship.

Keeping the Relationship Moving.

Winding Up the Relationship.

Disputes, Lawsuits, and Complaints.

Appendix A: Glossary.

Appendix B: Extracts from Sections 1 and 2, IRS Publication Number 15a, Employer′s Supplemental Tax Guide (1999).

Index.

O autorze

JOHN J. McGONAGLE, JD, LLM, is a consultant and the author or coauthor of eleven business books, including Business Agreements and The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence. He previously served with the President′s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, providing expert advice on managing consultants. McGonagle has also held senior staff and officer positions for major financial services corporations.
CAROLYN M. VELLA is the Founding Partner of The Helicon Group and the author or coauthor of eight business books, including Improved Business Planning Using Competitive Intelligence and Master Guide to Control of Corporations. Her global consulting practice encompasses clients from Australia to South Africa and from Canada to Switzerland.