Jim's Blog

Have you ever asked yourself who is the best consultant for the job, do they have experience in my field, are they available, are they willing to work where we need them, and most importantly what do they do?  Lots of questions but the answers do not always align with the initial intent.

In many of the roles I have had in Corporate America I found that I asked these questions each time I started searching for someone, or some firm, to help us solve or address a problem.  In many cases we needed different kinds of assistance such as advisory work, staff augmentation, or outsource services to accomplish our objectives.  The level of complexity and variation in scope was incredible and more often than not we were told by potential vendors that they could perform the work only to learn, after initiating the project, that it was not their core competence.

So rather than supply the answers to these questions we invite you to discover our solution contained in the Consult Connect platform.  We encourage you to explore and leverage our tools; these include items such as the Professional Experience Matrix™ which addresses a consultant’s experience and expertise a little differently than a standard resume. In addition the Consult Connect Dashboard™ is designed to address many of the other questions as it relates to your network of consulting professionals.   

You can preview these tools by looking at the links on the following page: http://www.consultconnect.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=frontpage&rtype=preview

You can also sign in or create a new account by going to: www.ConsultConnect.com.

I think you will find these tools, along with many others, to be beneficial in making the procurement process easier and more efficient. 

Our goal is to help you, and your team, accomplish more and we have the tools to do it.

They said it couldn’t be done. 

Now I know they were wrong however it doesn’t mean it isn’t an uphill battle.

I thought that this blog would be a great way to tell the evolving story of the business. That being the case then perhaps the best way to begin talking about it is to tell you all a little more about how we got where we are today. Starting Consult Connect has been a series of challenges since inception. The ideas built into the web site started to form almost a year and half ago and bringing it to life has been, for a lack of a better term, an adventure. For the last six months we have had a wild ride with the dedicated focus required to complete the planning and programming of the platform so we could bring it to life.  I can’t help but think about the countless meetings, hours of writing and mapping content, and months of code generation that allowed us to implement the live product.  It was chaos for a short period of time and now we have entered a new phase of chaos that is just as exciting.

So, now it is alive and growing and we are pleased to see that many of our members are responding to it in a positive manner and many are starting to grasp the power contained in the product. From where I’m sitting it is pretty exciting to see something that started out as a simple idea transitioning into something more.

I look forward to providing periodic postings where I can tell you more about this adventure we call Consult Connect.  There, I did it, I created my first posting on my blog.

Thanks for checking this out,

Jim