Good consultants

One of the more interesting aspects of being a consultant is that you get to see different issues from different angles all the time since you deal with customers working in:

• different domains
• different products
• different area codes
• different maturity levels
• different solutions

Interestingly enough I am now working on 2 quite different topics where 2 major companies are their antithesis in the 2 areas...

Where company number 1 are ahead in one area they are far behind in the other... and vice versa. Since they aren't competitors they could really benefit from some exchange of ideas...

For me this is one aspect where good consultants come in play... to see how experience from one domain can be applied and build leverage in another. Corny? Cliché? Perhaps, but still many times I can count 9 out of 10 consultants as "head-count" at any larger company. I have my theories behind this but I think I'll save you the rant. Let's just say that the problem lies in both ends.

Hmm... quite interesting subject to ponder on.