Topic > External Consultant Case Study - 1000

Internal consultants must work from project inception to execution of their projects. Internal consultants can help, observe and correct any errors in the implementation of their proposals. This allows for a greater likelihood of sustained success within the company, but can also increase the chance of losing your job if the project fails. Outsiders can also give the impression of having a bad character when it comes to projects by entering, presenting explanations and resolutions, and exiting. Jack Asgar (2002) states: “Another difference between internal and external consultants is that external consultants often have a self-serving agenda. Their recommendations to the client organization will often coincide with other available products and services. Internal consultants should not have no agenda” (Asgar, 2002). According to Beverly Scott and Kim Barns (n.d.), “in-house consultants' in-depth knowledge of the organization and business makes them valuable business partners or even be neutral and objective like an external consultant: they seem too familiar or lack a broad vision of the world” (Scott and Barnes,