The Role of a Consultant
An implementation consultant takes the lead in implementing business evaluating the project goals and objectives, selecting strategic objectives, implementing these strategies successfully, designing detailed plans and charting out the specific implementation step-by-step actions needed to accomplish the project objectives, and ensuring that the planning and implementation is completed on schedule and within budget. This summary is based on a particularly broad blogger's conceptual Detdiv 2010, that includes reviews of the key concepts introduced in the introduction, and expanding on some of the key project functions discussed there. It provides a general overview of the basic roles and responsibilities of an implementing business consultant in project implementation, and gives the reader an overview of the specifics that prepare a consultant for a particular role. The key to success in a consulting assignment is job specific planning, and focus on the details of the job at hand,...