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- Are you a consultant or a contractor?
- You've hung your consultant shingle, but are you truly fulfilling the role? Learn the differences between consultants and contractors, and find out about two dangerous career traps. by Comprehensive Solutions
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Harassed for attempting to transition from employee to consultant
- When a TechRepublic member told his employer that he planned to resign and work for a small consulting firm which had been a vendor, his boss threatened to sue the new firm. Find out what lessons you can learn from this sweet consulting opportunity that turned sour. by Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Don't be a "prideful" PM consultant
- Too much pride can be a bad thing for project management PM consultants. Is your ego getting in the way of your client's best interest? A TechRepublic member has a wake-up call for you with five characteristics of a puffed-up PM consultant. by Beth Blakely
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Insurance for independent IT consultants: Policies to consider
- Insurance is one of the last things that independent consultants usually deem necessary when they're starting out. Find out which types of insurance policies independents should consider, and hear which types Chip Camden is considering himself. by Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- A change management primer for IT consultants
- Determining the ability of the client organization to cope with a major IT project can help consultants find the most appropriate solution. Learn how evaluating the client's roles, resistance, and resilience can help you gauge their capacity for change. by Bob Watkins
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Resist bad decisions that will waste your client's money
- If you're in a position where you believe a client's time and money is going to be wasted because of mismanagement or micromanagement by another consultant, Jeff Davis offers advice about what you should do. by Jeff Davis
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- A thieving coworker presents a sticky situation for an IT consultant
- There are no easy answers for consultants who uncover coworkers that are stealing computer equipment from clients. Here is a good example of just such a dilemma faced by one TechRepublic member, along with the problem's satisfactory resolution. by Paul Baldwin
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Good consultants know when to be "invisible"
- Sometimes you need to take a backseat to the client team so that they can fully develop the skills they'll need after you're gone. Shannon Kalvar describes becoming an "invisible consultant" in order to allow a client to become the star of the project. by Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- 10 personality traits of a highly effective independent consultant
- Many IT consultants daydream about branching out on their own without giving much thought to what skills are necessary to succeed as a freelancer. Before you commit to being an independent consultant, read Chip Camden's list of 10 personality traits that he says you should possess in order to be...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Dealing with a mistrustful client
- A CIO hires a consultant to examine the feasibility of outsourcing his IT team. When the consultant tries to handle the inevitable bad feelings of the in-house team, he finds that this extreme challenge also raises ethical questions. by Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Five tips to help you deal with people who love to hate consultants
- As an outsider coming into a company to make sometimes unwelcome changes, consultants can often find themselves the target of office politics. Here are a few survival tactics from a consultant who has been there. by Timothy Huckabee
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- An Adventure in IT consulting
- Chip Camden presents a fictitious scenario in which a project goes off the rails, and an IT consultant is called in to offer wisdom. Find out what IT consultants can learn from this example. by Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- IT consulting: The importance of naive creativity
- Tao Te Ching: "The more you know, the less you understand." There are many times that the more I learn something, the more I'm constrained by my knowledge and assumptions, resulting in my being less creative. This contradicts the conventional wisdom concerning expertise. People...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Big trouble for little white IT consulting lies
- A prospective client describes the problem domain. It seems easy enough for your abilities, and your consulting fees aren't an obstacle. You're already counting the money you're going to make from this IT consulting project, when the client says: "Oh, and we use <technology X>. How well do you know...
- Blog posts 2008-05-03
- The technology brain drain
- Why doesn’t anyone seem to know that the mentors of the IT department are reaching retirement age? Why isn't it more important? The “heart and soul†of many IT departments is slowly trickling away. What is surprising is that business hardly notices and doesn’t seem...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Four issues to consider before becoming a remote IT consultant
- I perform most of my IT consulting work from home. This arrangement is quite convenient and allows me to work when inspiration strikes. For example, I recently handed off a problem to a colleague, and then the solution occurred to me in a dream. As soon as...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Can you identify your shortcomings as an IT consultant?
- Have you ever wondered what clients might say if they had to write a critique about you? It didn't really enter my mind until I read TechRepublic member meryl_logue's comment in the discussion thread about how to become an IT consultant: I NEVER hire a consultant without at least...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Poll for IT consultants: Do you also consider yourself a Systems Integrator?
- In talking to IT consultants, I recently discovered that a lot of them also consider themselves Systems Integrators. This may sound self-evident since IT consultants are typically hired to integrate various types of systems into a client's current IT infrastructure, but I'm interested to know much overlap there really is...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- What's more important to become an IT consultant: education or experience?
- A TechRepublic member recently e-mailed me this question: "Is there a special course you have to take to become an IT consultant, or does it depend on what computer skills you have?" The topic of education vs. experience comes up a lot in the TechRepublic Forums. I...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- TechRepublic's 2008 IT Skills and Salary Report: IT pros want to keep skills up to date
- It's no surprise that TechRepublic's 2008 Skills and Salary report reveals that most IT pros are concerned with keeping their skills up to date. After all, technology changes so rapidly that if you don't keep up with it, you're sure to miss out. That's why training is essential to IT...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
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