An Introduction to Professional Consulting by Dan Grijzenhout

An Introduction to Professional Consulting by Dan Grijzenhout

There are many of us. Some of us belong to professional consulting organizations, some of us are independents, some of us run our own consulting businesses, some do it full time, some part-time, some of us provide advice, some analyze and write reports, some help find resources, some do financial and investment work, others write code, build web-sites, and others physically design and build things. But the bottom line is that we are brought in under contract to complete something for someone else, either as an individual or a business entity of some sort. We are brought into a situation because we have the expertise, ability or the time to do something for another individual or company that they don't have themselves or internally within their organization. Or, they have seen or heard about us and our reputation is such that they just want us involved in what they are trying to construct. This book is primarily pointed at the new practitioner involved in the world of business and IT consulting in general although there are aspects to what I am writing about that others might find to be useful knowledge as well. If you can think of anything you can do for any business entity under contract and get paid to do it, then that will fall within the scope of what I am writing about in this book. The five core parts that my A Guide to Professional Consulting series of books on this topic will cover include the following: Part One: What It Means to Be a Consultant Part Two: Finding and Securing the Engagement Part Three: Planning, Information Gathering, Current Analysis, Requirements and Gap Identification Part Four: Strategy Development, Architecture Definition and Project Identification Part Five: Migration Planning, Project Development and Dependencies, Resourcing, Durations and Timing This first book is intended to cover Parts One and Two: Part One: What It Means to Be a Consultant Part Two: Finding and Securing the Engagement In this first book in the series, I take the reader through the decision process of whether or not to even consider becoming a consultant in the first place through to discussing niches you can become proficient in and make a living at within the professional consulting profession. Then, I show you ways that you can find clients for your services, how to position yourself so that clients can find you, and ultimately how to secure an engagement for yourself or your team so you can start working on a project. Oh yes, I will also show you things you can do and verbiage you can use in your agreements to help protect yourself financially while undertaking these projects should anything go wrong or sideways during the work effort. Enjoy the book and this series and best of luck with your consulting career. - Dan Grijzenhout - Author

Grijzenhout, Dan: - Dan Grijzenhout (1955-present) was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. For close to thirty years, Dan has been a professional business and information systems consulting professional working to executive levels for both private and public sector organizations globally, a number of which were Fortune level enterprises. Dan has founded, operated and sold an online global payment services company that moves millions of dollars on behalf of its 100,000 plus account holders annually; he has been interviewed on the show World Business Review by former head of NATO and Secretary of State, General Alexander Haig, for his work in advanced digital and online telecommunications services and nation-wide online and card based Loyalty programs; and now works at writing and building training programs to share his years of experience with others interested in online entrepreneurship. During the past few years, Dan has focused nearly all his time and energy on designing and building online marketing systems and social media marketing platforms. In fact, Dan recently completed a two year project as the project manager and chief architect to build a marketing system used by several major airlines, travel agencies and Fortune Level manufacturing corporations. Dan has written, self-published and self-marketed two books; he has written and published over 40 social media related training/learning articles, and has created training videos and knowledge enhancing video podcasts. He has gained expertise in many online content creation tool-sets including the full suite of Adobe Creative tools and Adobe Dreamweaver for website development; video and audio editing software; 3rd party social media related website services and content creation partners; and most main-stream social communication platforms including Facebook and Facebook business pages, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Reddit, Goodreads, Amazon Author Central, LinkedIn, Ezine Articles Publishing, Amazon-Kindle Book Publishing, Amazon Create Space and more. On these social media platforms, Dan has now amassed over 10,000 followers and subscribers and more are following him daily.

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ISBN 13	9780995013810
ISBN 10	0995013810
Title	An Introduction to Professional Consulting
Author	Dan Grijzenhout
Series	A Guide To Professional Consulting - The Workshop
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Howtoguru Publishing
Year published	2016-04-04
Number of pages	148
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.