Do management consultancies have a place?

When was the last time you took a step back and checked how much you spend on external consultancy fees? Do you ever justify it by saying that you’re paying for expertise or the backing of a large consultancy that’s done it before? What about the ease with which you can just buy it in? Have you been pressured into using specific technologies or partners off the back of a management consultancy’s advice?

Management consultancies are not here to help you. They are not on your side. They are focused on their profits, their external investors and their shareholders and you are funding that. Management consultancies have a place, but that is not in your organisation.

An increasing number of firms like yours are taking back control and are looking forwd to saving costs, time and building their own internal capabilities. We are here to help you to do that.

You can carry out digital transformation, implement generative AI solutions, build bespoke tools, configure and integrate large CRM systems within your organisation without a management consultancy holding your hand, but you don’t have to. You should do what is right for you based on your own intimate knowledge of your company and how it works. We will help you to create or expand your technology function to cater for your future so that you no longer need to rely on external consultancies or system integrators.

We work with trusted recruitment firms to find the right people, with a blend of permanent and contract resources at the right size for your organisation, at every level, from technology leadership down. We will work with you to integrate them into your team, to help them fit in with your company culture. We will help upskill both the contractors and any existing resources to ensure they are able to work together seamlessly as a single team. Your new resources will then be your technology organisation to develop further, to grow or to shrink as you see fit, under your control and working to your budget.

At Forwd, we have a simple commercial model where we charge a small fixed fee and then 2% of projected cost savings in year 1 and 1% of projected cost savings in year 2, with nothing further to pay for a team that is right for your organisation.

We look forwd to working with you.