Comments on: Aspirations and Realism: Balancing Business Perspective http://www.consultingnetwork.co.in/aspirations-and-realism-balancing-business-perspective/804/?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Mathew http://www.consultingnetwork.co.in/aspirations-and-realism-balancing-business-perspective/804/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Tom Mathew Fri, 29 May 2009 08:54:16 +0000 http://consultingnetwork.co.in/?p=804#comment-392 That was a very interesting and thought provoking article...in fact, with the way some of the firms have been operating, one could say, the firms themselves are in need of consulting!!!...which brings to the question, what is it that has caused some firms to sustain their growth while others to whimper along?...a consulting profession as such a very personality and knowledge driven business, with the client facing consultant being the sole reason for a deal to work or not...hence, is it the ability of some consultants to transform, themselves, their organizations and their value offerings that has resulted in sustained performance? and is it because of stringent processes, controls and a strict regimen of consulting that has caused others to fail...a documented consulting process that has taken the joy out of consulting, wherein at times innovative and seemingly risky ideas are sacrificed for the time and tested?? And for the successful ones, have their clients really done well? has the value been delivered to them that is now reflecting in their bottomlines?? lots of questions and lots more to ponder... That was a very interesting and thought provoking article…in fact, with the way some of the firms have been operating, one could say, the firms themselves are in need of consulting!!!…which brings to the question, what is it that has caused some firms to sustain their growth while others to whimper along?…a consulting profession as such a very personality and knowledge driven business, with the client facing consultant being the sole reason for a deal to work or not…hence, is it the ability of some consultants to transform, themselves, their organizations and their value offerings that has resulted in sustained performance? and is it because of stringent processes, controls and a strict regimen of consulting that has caused others to fail…a documented consulting process that has taken the joy out of consulting, wherein at times innovative and seemingly risky ideas are sacrificed for the time and tested??

And for the successful ones, have their clients really done well? has the value been delivered to them that is now reflecting in their bottomlines?? lots of questions and lots more to ponder…

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