Consulting bussines
In this section you can access information on assistance provided by specialized
firms (recommendations for commercial, economic, fiscal, legal, import-export) as
well as information on topics of current business environment.
When you call the advice?
- processes when the company does not fully work
- when the company's current infrastructure is not the most appropriate
- when seeking revival activity
- when the company developed rapidly and there is a need for recalibration processes.
What entrepreneurs expect from consultants?
- To access market studies relevant to their field of activity
- Be assisted in obtaining loans
- Be assisted in the analysis of investment opportunities on the market
- Recruit qualified personnel;
- To acquire technical knowledge of the consultant and the methods
they used it to identify problems
- Can operate changes in internal flows of the company
- To learn modern techniques of business analysis - interview, diagnosis,
communication, human motivation, feedback, evaluation etc.
Benefits consulting services
Directly or indirectly, all changes generated and implemented with the help of consultants
must contribute to improving business activity.
Main benefits of advisory services are:
- increasing competence and the company in the area in which they operate;
- identifying new opportunities to assert themselves on the market
- increase execution speed, and quality products and services company.
Why entrepreneurs are reluctant to use consultants
- Identifying a competent consultant is difficult and requires more time. Entrepreneurs are not willing to invest time and energy into such a process
- Providing facts and figures relating to the undertaking by the foreign person is seen reluctantly
- Fact that a company called the advisory services can be interpreted as a lack of competence of the manager
- Consultants are experienced in Chapter poor business practice.
- Most entrepreneurs believes that only large enterprises you can afford to pay consulting fees.
What are business incubators?
Business incubators are an alternative to paid consultancy services.
These entrepreneurs make available the following facilities:
- A space for activity, with a slight rent all necessary utilities
- Activity
- Assistance of consultants specializing in business management
- Costs are borne in large measure, state or international organizations.
Disadvantages:
- When the company grows (already has a number of employees) will have to give space to another applicant;
- Network of business incubators is quite weak and restricted media.
Costs of consultancy
- Cost advisory services vary depending on complexity and can be situations, as recommended in the Management Consultants Association in Romania, between $ 50 per day for senior consultants and 500 $ / day rate charged by international consulting firms.
- Centers consultancy work on the funding approved.
- Costs of consultancy can be paid a percentage of gross profit, if the advice was a measurable increase in the turnover of the company.
What involves contracting consulting services
The developer who wants to contract professional services consultancy should cover
the following steps:
- Who to achieve a minimum information on the consultancy market:
- Who to define the issues that they want to solve through advice: contractor must
know exactly what go wrong or what could go wrong in the company, which wants to
improve, what is deemed need a specialist and can not alone solve the problem
- to define the objective advice
- to identify the most suitable consultant for the company to: This stage involves
a rigorous selection based on careful assessment of proposals companies in the field
- to develop a joint program of action agreed in consultation with the specialist:
manager must actively participate in all stages of consultancy
- to evaluate the results of implementing the proposed solutions consultants.
What to include a consulting contract
- Contracting Parties (the consultant and the recipient)
- objectives, description of work, start date, planning calendar, duration
- products of advice and reports (reports and documentation delivered to the beneficiary)
- Fees and expenses (fees to be charged the expenses to be reimbursed Consultant)
- procedure for billing and payment
- Professional Responsibility (the use of confidential information, avoid conflict
of interest and other aspects necessary).
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- Obligations (Consultant required for damage to person, minimize the burden).
- conditions for terminating the contract
- Arbitration (jurisdiction, procedure of dispute resolution).
- signature and date.