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- Site offers help for becoming a top consultant
- Career advice, industry news, and active forums are on tap at Top-Consultant.com. Owned and operated by two former management strategy consultants, this site has a lot to offer anyone with an interest in the consulting industry.It’s difficult to create a niche Web site—you have to strike a balance between valuable...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Top-Consultant.com, Beth Blakely, Top-Consultant, Tony Restell, consulting
- Technical articles 2002-08-14
- Top consultant says litigation is on the rise in IT
- Author and consultant Tom DeMarco laments the loss of innovation and the trend toward legal action in the technology industry. Columnist Rick Freedman talked with DeMarco to find out what these developments mean for today's consultants.Tom DeMarco’s work has had a genuine impact on my philosophy of IT consulting. Early...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, information technology, Top-Consultant, Rick Freedman, Tom DeMarco, innovation, litigation
- Technical articles 2001-01-09
- Top consultant says emphasize value, not price, when selling your skills
- As a consultant to consultants, Alan Weiss says many in the IT field are selling themselves short by looking at their services as a commodity. Instead, he suggests they focus on the value they offer clients.When people hear the term “consultant,” they usually think of an all-knowing expert—someone who’s dishing...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Jennifer Recktenwald, Top-Consultant, Alan Weiss
- Technical articles 2000-06-29
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- What separates a good technical consultant from the pack?
- It seems like anyone can hang out a consultant shingle, but not everyone can deliver. Here are the traits that make a consultant stand out from the crowd. by Robert Bogue
- Tags: Skill, Consultant, Customer, Customer Service Customer Service, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Robert Bogue
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- 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 need to possess in order to...
- Tags: Consultant, Chip, Chip Camden, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking
- Download resources 2008-06-24
- How to Transition Away From Your ITIL Consultant
- Breaking free from the ties that bind a consultant to his or her client is a topic of some consternation and embarrassment. From the consultant's perspective, the temptation is to remain in a paid capacity, even beyond that healthy for the long term success of the client. For the client,...
- Tags: Consultant, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-01-12
- External Consultant with Internal Email
- I have been tasked with providing an external consultant with an internal email address. We want the consultant to write emails as if they were here but we don't want to give them actual credentials or a real mail bax on Exchange. PS - Pop is disabled on our mail...
- Tags: E-mail, BreakFix
- Q&A 2006-08-30
- 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
- Tags: Consultant, Contractor, Role, Consulting, Outsourcing, Professional Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Career, Comprehensive Solutions
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- 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...
- Tags: Consultant, Problem, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- 10 signs that you aren't cut out to be an IT consultant
- IT consultant job descriptionI beg your pardon for my ignorance, but please explain me if an "IT consultant" job is more with HW, rather with SW and/or business consultancy? What do you understand under the term "IT consultant"?I refer you to the wise sage of IT consultants... DogbertSource: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/Comics/Dilbert.htmlQuote: "I...
- Tags: B.Balvocius, IT-consultant, Dogbert
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- The five fundamentals of IT consulting
- Rick Freedman offers advice and observations from his book The IT Consultant: A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship. See what you can learn about building a solid foundation for good consultant-client relations. by TechRepublic
- Tags: Information Technology, Consulting, Strategy, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, TechRepublic, Consultant, Client Relationship, Rick Freedman
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- How to become a consultant
- Hi,Since there are many consultants on this forum. I am sure I will be able to get good answers to my question.I am Software Engg. currently working with a well-known Consultancy firm as engineer for past 1.5 years, this is my first job as well. I love traveling and want...
- Tags: career, consulting, MBA, swadhwa@...
- Q&A 2006-01-07
- The consultant who blogs
- Looking for consultant blogsAny consultants reading this who have their own blog, please post your URL in this discussion. I plan to do a follow-on post on this topic after I read through them.TIA
- Tags: Blogging, Sterling "Chip" Camden, blog
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- IT Consultant- Looking for some advice
- Here's a little backround: I am 22yo, I work as a network administrator full-time for a car dealership and I would like to get a few clients and do some consultant work on the side, maybe even setup a side business doing just that.I made some b
- Tags: Instant messaging, Cryptopki@..., IM
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- 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
- Tags: Consultant, Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Team Management, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Beth Blakely
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- 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
- Tags: Team, CIO, Consultant, Agent, Team Management, Management, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Looking for a Excel 2007 / VBA consultant near Baltimore MD
- Does anyone have contact info for above consultant type. Currently have a need for quick VBA / Excel application effort. Could lead to additional consulting on a variety of efforts.Thanks
- Tags: Scripting languages, Microsoft Office, ssutay@..., Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Best of 2000: Should you take a permanent job?
- Are you about to take a permanent job? Are you flirting with the idea of becoming an independent consultant? Don't miss out on this best of 2000 article to help you weigh the pros and cons.Your top client makes you an attractive offer for a permanent position. Should you take...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Beth Blakely, permanent job, job
- Technical articles 2001-01-04
- Consultant Career: Should you transfer subject matter knowledge to folks inhouse?
- IT consultants have career issues that are different fromthose of the corporate IT pro. In this regular column, we will address thoseissues that are specific to the consultant. In last week's column, we addressed
- Tags: career, knowledge, Toni Bowers
- Technical articles 2006-04-11
- What are IT consultant skills and expiriencies?
- I would like to know what are the most importtant skills for an IT Consultant.
- Tags: roygit@..., IT-consultant
- Discussion threads 2007-09-23
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