On more than one occasion some businessmen hire a consulting service but do not know what they are hiring.

The term business consulting is widely used to refer to the activity carried out by a consultant.

A consultant is a person who is an expert in a subject and who offers his time and his knowledge to solve a problem in a company.

If we divide business consulting by activity niche or industry, the range is also enormous. We will mention some of them:

• Financial services (study of financial situations in organizations, preparation of financial plans, etc).

• Information technology.

• Energy efficiency.

• Management systems (quality, environment, information security, food safety, safety and health, etc).

• Innovation.

• Business strategy and business operations.

• Time management.

• Selection of Human Resources.

• Search and processing of subsidies.

• Execution of projects.

In general terms, the job of a consultant is always to help companies, not to complicate their lives.

The objective is to make a company improve in terms of process management, time, quality of the product or service delivered, effectiveness, efficiency...

To achieve this, you need:

1. A good professional and expert in a subject

2. Know how to advise and transmit

3. Identify the client's needs/problems well

4. Analyze the capacity of each one to face a project (knowledge, workload and execution time)

5. Offer a solution to the client

• Detect customer needs and problems

In this phase, the client must clearly identify the situation the company is in, what problem it has and what it wants to achieve.

Through data collection, checklist or some similar tool, the situation can be identified and the process of how to solve it can be started.

• Preparation and delivery of an offer/quotation/contract/execution project

This offer must detail the solution to be delivered to the client along with the execution times and the milestones of the project in time.

• Design and tailor a solution to the client's problem

In this phase of business consulting, a series of deliverables will be prepared (documentation, software, web applications, improvement agreements, ...).

• Deliver and implement the solution

At this time, the client is advised and accompanied in the implementation of the solution.

• Monitoring the implementation of the solution

This phase is important since it is possible to detect if the delivered solution is being applied correctly in the organization and if it is working or not.

The idea in this phase is to carry out an audit to verify the degree of implementation and correct execution.

• Closing of the project

This represents the final phase in which the project is concluded once it is verified that the solution provided is helping the client.

1. A consultant can help a company a lot if the company also allows itself to be helped.

2. There is no doubt that, in general terms, it is a long process and requires many hours of analysis, design and delivery of solutions to the client, but it will be more than beneficial for a company if, after having worked with a consultant:

3. •The company manages to automate certain processes.

4. •Fewer errors appear.

5. •You learn to analyze errors to implement actions that lead to eliminating errors at the root.

6. •Communication between departments is improved