ADVISORY SERVICES CONSULTANCY SERVICES
1. Advisors leave their clients with a new
and often broader perspective. They
are better problem-definers than
solvers. At their best, they contribute
to strengthening their clients capacity
to solve their own problems.
1.1 Advisors can provide an early-
warning about emerging problems,
signals often missed by a
consultant's sharp focus on
eliminating the problem at hand.
2. Advisors use a bigger picture approach
to help you deal with ongoing
challenges to your business. They help
guide you toward improvement by
assisting in problem discovery and
advising you on where to find helpful
resources and services.
3. businesses hire and retain advisors on
an ongoing basis.
4. Advisors are more like strategists.
They help you develop a way to align
your technology with your company's
goals and processes.
5. Advisors sometimes become active in
helping business clients with process
improvements and accountability
within the organization.
6. An advisor has deep knowledge across
multiple disciplines and has
experience in working in several
functions. The role of the advisor can
be compared with a mentor or guide
around a wide scope of subjects and
differs categorically from the scope of
a task specific consultant.
7. The advisor is usually a long term
member of an organisation and
understands the organisations
strategic targets of near-, mid- and far-
1. Consultants are problem solvers. They
excel at developing and selling ideas,
and they can be great simplifiers.
2. You typically use a consulting firm to
help you discover the root cause of a
business problem, and to help fix it.
Once the problem is solved, the
consultant leaves.
3. Consulting relationships are
commonly short-lived.
4. Consulting firms have become
increasingly IT-driven, using their
expertise to determine what
technology software systems you
need. They sell the systems to you,
install them and leave.
5. Consulting relationships are
considered more independent than
advising relationships. That's because
of the shorter-term nature of
consulting work, and the limited
strategic involvement of the
consultant.
6. A consultant is engaged in fulfilling
pre-defined terms such as solving
problems or underlying constraints.
The consultant is presented with a task
after the need to solve a particular
problem has already been identified.
7. Sometimes it is expected from a
consultant to take care of the problems
on their own and report the solution to
the sponsor. More often however the
consultant will prepare options of how
to solve the problem and then
discusses pros and cons with the
sponsor.
8. In rare cases a consultant is used to
replace a management position
temporarily until a long term
replacement has been hired.
 future planning. He or she knows the
staff, the leadership, clients and all
other related individuals and their
services / products very well and is
able to translate perspective and
verbiage from one angle to another.
8. Advisors identify issues (or tasks in
general) before they become a
problem and share their opinion and
insight with the stakeholders. They
raise their concern in an adequate way
and help to address work items in
order to clear out the threat of not
engaging in this particular activity.
The advisors usually decides on their
own how much of their own time they
invest in the activities, based on the
issues severity.