WHEN THE COST OF WORK UNDONE IS
GREATER THAN THE COST OF CONSULTING

When the cost to your business of uncompleted work is larger than the cost of the consultants use consultants.

Case Study 8: Ben manages IT for a Manufacturing company that produces medical devices. His staff of 18 includes 12 application developers. In the fourth quarter of 2006 within a period of four weeks five programmers left for various reasons (two resignations, one relocated, one FMLA and one on long term disability). The new system they were developing was to be deployed next quarter with a conservative savings estimate of $400,000 a year to the business. 

Ben’s company had a choice to make, lose $33,000 in savings monthly or hire experienced consultants to complete the project and insure that the savings gets realized as quickly as possible. The payback on the consultant investment was realized in less than three months. Ben’s choice was easy.