Requirements

Businesses are unique

It is difficult to generalise about requirements since they are invariably unique to a particular client. We have found, nonetheless, that there are some general common categories of business need:

• Short-term specialist resources to boost in-house competences
  • Quantitative: to supplement the resources needed for the day-to-day running of the business, peaks and troughs in resource loading or perhaps the implementation of a large project
  • Qualitative: providing specific skill areas such as sales, marketing, technical, financial, human resources
• Business development including product marketing and ‘go-to market’ strategies
• Mergers with other companies or divisions within a company
• Funding rounds
• Acquisitions
• Divestments
• Restructuring
• Outsourcing
• Rapid growth
• Unexpected challenges
• Rapidly changing circumstances e.g. Right sizing in a slump
• Acting as a sounding board in order to identify specific areas of issue or opportunity