The true consulting is boring and honest.
It has little in common with sparking motivating blessing when a guru introduces The Right Solution for all known and unknown problems (and afterwards explains why everything did go wrong).
The true consulting consists of boring processes: scrupulous information gathering, thoughtful information analysis and careful comparison of alternative strategies. All three processes are interconnected and usually produce a lot of errors and mistakes that must be detected and corrected. (A Great Guru is always right.)
The main problem of the true consulting is that it must be honest. In most cases unfiltered information is bitter. And it rarely reaches upper levels of management. Most companies fear honesty.
Indeed, I rarely had seen the true consulting during the quarter of a century I work in IT and related fields.
As mentioned in the previous part below is a draft description of an interesting tool for information analysis:
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It has little in common with sparking motivating blessing when a guru introduces The Right Solution for all known and unknown problems (and afterwards explains why everything did go wrong).
The true consulting consists of boring processes: scrupulous information gathering, thoughtful information analysis and careful comparison of alternative strategies. All three processes are interconnected and usually produce a lot of errors and mistakes that must be detected and corrected. (A Great Guru is always right.)
The main problem of the true consulting is that it must be honest. In most cases unfiltered information is bitter. And it rarely reaches upper levels of management. Most companies fear honesty.
Indeed, I rarely had seen the true consulting during the quarter of a century I work in IT and related fields.
As mentioned in the previous part below is a draft description of an interesting tool for information analysis:
The Changes Acceptance Matrix
( Read more... )