What are the differences between a traditional consultancy firm and a network approach?
A traditional consultancy firm is often structured by job titles: Director, Project Managers, Expert Consultants, Senior Consultants and Junior Consultants. The set up and the carrying out of your project often follows a Top-Down approach. Each consulting firm has offices to which the consultants are attached. The network approach is based on the development of new technologies, particularly the internet. It is well developed in the USA. It allows senior consultants (with several fields of expertise) and geographically distant to propose network services to clients. The consultants are bound by a professional code of ethics. The structure is simple (consultant members of the network or Counsellor and affiliated consultants recommended by the network for their fields of expertise). The H&P Counsellor consultants are fully in charge of the projects and take care of their management. This new approach allows the setting up a reduced team of consultants contributing a maximum of added valu