All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary.
The above statement looks at the practice of hiring outside consultants in a narrow sense. Outside consultants are hired not just for suggesting improvements to current ways of operating but also for defining new ways of operating in light of changing business environment. Consultants are often hired when a specific expertise is unavailable within the company or when expertise is needed only for a one-time endeavor that the company undertakes. At times full-time employees are busy working on their day-to-day activities and consultants are the best way to get new projects done.
In this context, the statement makes a sweeping argument that the hiring of consultants is unnecessary and only if company were to involve more of its full-time employees, the projects could be executed and operational efficiencies achieved.
Lets take the example of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). Company A acquires Company B and wants to integrate the operations of the two companies. Alignment and integration covers not only the operations, but spans across policies and procedures in various domains - Human Resources, Product Lines, Sales and Marketing and Finance and above all Change Management. M&A Consultants have the right tools, frameworks and procedures to create a step-by-step road-map to achieve the end result. In fact they also help in defining what should be the end result and hand-hold the company management to get through the complete process of integration.
Another area where consultants could be of immense value is when the a company has tried all possible solutions internally and need out-of-box ideas and thought processes. Consultants can help looking at a problem from a completely different perspective and create innovative solutions. Also, in the 21st century a number of small and medium sized companies are facing the pressure to create a substantial digital presence such as e-commerce website, mobile apps, presence on social networks, digital marketing. This move to 'digital' has made it very much necessary for a company to hire outside expertise in the market. Such consultants bring to fore not only the best practices but also help in evaluating which ones make the most impact.
A company's employees may be definitely knowledgeable on the processes and the operational practices but there are a number of instances as highlighted above where seeking outside expertise is the best way forward. However, what needs to be kept in mind while hiring consultants is that full-time employees may provide the best direction or guidance in terms of the intricacies of the existing operations and help in evaluating the consultant's findings. Therefore, hiring consultants should not be seen as an exclusive activity and a company should have an inclusive approach when implementing new projects.
To summarize, consultants are not unnecessary but an integral part of creating operational efficiencies but a company must make every attempt to integrate their employees opinion and expertise.
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- All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary. 83
- The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general well-being of all its people.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developin 33
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: LETS_LET[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
Suggestion: Let's
...d operational efficiencies achieved. Lets take the example of Mergers and Acquisi...
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Line 7, column 66, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
...tants could be of immense value is when the a company has tried all possible solution...
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Line 7, column 194, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to look' or 'look'.
Suggestion: to look; look
...thought processes. Consultants can help looking at a problem from a completely differen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, while, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 33.0505617978 30% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2556.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 470.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43829787234 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05068428394 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512765957447 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 816.3 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.484717055 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.526315789 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7368421053 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.84210526316 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430194670404 0.243740707755 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128118700048 0.0831039109588 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076476036208 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227258700181 0.150359130593 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702032065669 0.0667264976115 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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