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New blood, a fresh set of eyes, or an outside perspective: No matter what you call it, the right consultant can add exponential value to any organization. How can you make sure you choose the right consultant and avoid the wrong one? Read on…
What is a Strategic Consultant?
This particular type of consultant is a professional who strategically analyzes businesses, creates solutions to problems, and helps organizations develop efficient plans for meeting their goals. As a business leader, you know your business better than anyone. But what happens when you need help or just want perspective on the direction the business is going? Anyone can offer general advice from the outside looking in, but to truly help you, they have to know your business very well--almost as well as you know it. That’s what a strategic consultant does: gets to know a business and then helps the business owner meet their goals.Read the full column here.Editor's Note: This column originally appeared in the November 2013 issue of The PCB Magazine.
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