A professional and serious consultant can support his clients in management-projects (internationalization, strategic marketing etc.) in many manners, for example during:


1. Preliminary Analysis
2. Analysis of Current Situation
3. Concept Development
4. Implementation Planning
5. Implementation
6. Review and Follow-Up


1. Preliminary Analysis

  • His experience with similar problems at other companies and branches may lead to a better or even complete new definition of the problem.



2. Analysis of Current Situation

  • As an information supplier, he may be able to provide crucial information or knowledge to his clients, which will give them competitive advantages.

  • He delivers new technical and methods knowledge. Out of his rich treasure of analysis instruments, he selects the most suitable one for the specific requirements of each project.

  • He has time to analyze the problem thoroughly, while his client can attend to his day-to-day business.



3. Concept Development

  • He elaborates creative alternatives of possible solutions that were not found by his client’s employees, because they may have been possibly too close to the problem.

  • In unique and complex tasks, the usage of an external consultant is economical appropriate if the necessary knowledge is not available in the client’s company.

  • ABased on his technical and methods knowledge, he can considerably reduce his client’s time for concept development under certain circumstances.



4. Implementation Planning

  • His experience with similar projects can help to recognize earlier possible concept weaknesses concerning the implementation.

  • Because of his distance as an outsider and not being affected by the planned measures, he can estimate the consequences in an unbiased manner.

  • He is able to plan actions that are based upon his recommendations rather easily.

  • IDuring the risk analysis, he can propose suitable measures to safeguard the project-outcome.



5. Implementation

  • He can introduce problem solutions objectively, i.e. independent of internal interests, into his clients organization.

  • He can help to win the client’s personnel for planned changes.



6. Review and Follow-Up

  • Because the consultant carries out projects regularly, he can support the client in the professional review and documentation process to guarantee that the newly won experiences will be also available for future projects.