In many companies, the business lines continue to avoid working with  procurement executives when sourcing consultants. Why is procurement  sidelined when dealing with consulting services? It is an easy answer: TRUST.

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains how  to make my internal clients to trust me for consulting sourcing?

Over the past 20 years, the growth of in-house consulting groups has been one of the most notable elements of change in the fast-moving Consulting Industry.

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains Why should you develop an internal consulting group?

With the constant pressure on cost reductions and sustainable savings, many Companies are starting to notice their Tail Spend, even in the Consulting Category.  

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains how to take control of the consulting tail spend.

A simple scan of your consulting expenses can open the door to significant quick wins and value creation. 

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains how to improve your consulting sourcing capability

When companies face difficulties such as Covid 19 and start to be cash-constrained, they often look to reduce their expenses, and Consulting looks like a non-essential line.On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte discusses whether you should freeze your Consulting expenses during a crisis or not.

Having a consulting strategy is about aligning your consulting budget with your strategic priorities to accelerate the execution of your strategy.On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte discusses about how to make sure your consulting spend is supporting your strategy.

Disruption is pretty much everywhere which means that there are opportunities to work with consultants to take advantage or react to the disruption in your industry.

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte interviews Laurent Thomas to discuss about what is disruption in consulting.

Writing well-defined requirements is the cornerstone of a successful consulting project. Even when you don’t organize a tender..

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte discusses about the RFP for Consulting services.

When you launch a project, you know that assigning an independent task force can bring focus, speed, which is sometimes enough for the success of a project. Lets see what could be your options.

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains how Make or buy strategy  looks like for the consulting category.

Consultants can bring value to their clients that can be eiher technical or political. And it is important to measure that value.But how do you that exactly?

On this week’s Smart consulting Sourcing podcast, Consulting Sourcing Expert Hélène Laffitte explains how to measure the performance of a consulting project.