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

McGonagle, John J.; Vella, Carolyn M.

ISBN 10: 0471387274 / ISBN 13: 9780471387275

Published by Wiley, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Use a Consultant in Your Company: A Managers' and Executives' Guide
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471387274
• ISBN 13: 9780471387275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Obtain the Best Consulting Services for Your Business

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

How to Use a Consultant in Your Company delivers expert advice andpractical guidelines on how to successfully create and manage theclient/consultant relationship-to your advantage. John McGonagleand 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, contractingissues
* 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 formalpolicies, billing procedures, and more that you can adapt to fityour own situation, How to Use a Consultant in Your Company is theone-book-fits-all solution for anyone responsible for getting themost out of their company's consultant.

About the Author

JOHN J. McGONAGLE, JD, LLM, is a consultant and the author orcoauthor of eleven business books, including Business Agreementsand The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence. He previouslyserved with the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control,providing expert advice on managing consultants. McGonagle has alsoheld senior staff and officer positions for major financialservices corporations.
CAROLYN M. VELLA is the Founding Partner of The Helicon Group andthe author or coauthor of eight business books, including ImprovedBusiness Planning Using Competitive Intelligence and Master Guideto Control of Corporations. Her global consulting practiceencompasses clients from Australia to South Africa and from Canadato Switzerland.