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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Which proves one of the above poster's point that consultants are only used for external validation.
Speaking from experience, I trained and worked briefly as a lawyer before moving to a semi-consulting & analysis type role. The commonalities are always the same in both fields. In-house expertise is valued but at the end of the day, management will always engage an external "expert" to validate internal findings and cover their ass. In the end, we usually end up checking the external expert's work, which is sometimes far off the mark and so riddled with disclaimers and assumptions that its practically useless. Good grief man!
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If its off the mark, couldnt you share your findings as well to steer it close to the mark? After all those external consultants and whatnots would usually work closely with you, bothering your everyday with interviews about your process and your thoughts right? Or do they lock themselves in 1 of your meeting rooms and dont talk to you guys to collect information at all? If its the latter, then your company has hired consultants who dont know what they are doing.