Buying Professional Services

Overview

Improve your skills in choosing the Professional you work with.

This Report provides expert guidance in choosing and using lawyers and other professional advisers, and will ensure you better understand the process and exactly what you are buying.

Get the best quality professional services for your business.

The principal difficulty for a buyer is knowing who will provide good services of a kind that they do not necessarily understand. Therefore, the purchasing decision is often made on “soft” grounds (for example, they like the person). Whilst it is good to work with those with whom a rapport can be built up, buyers of these services should use a range of factors in their decision to purchase.

This Report looks at the issues that often arise between buyer and advisor, and details the things that can go wrong and gives solutions to overcome the problems. It supplies firm practical advice on selecting the best professional services for your needs.

Report benefits

It will help you:
1 Ensure that the professionals you choose supply the service level you require, fulfill the need and who you feel confident in working with

2 Flag-up some of the issues which consistently re-emerge when buying professional services and what to look out for to avoid costly services which do not provide results

Who will benefit from this Report

• In-house counsel about to engage the services of private practice legal advisors
• Finance directors and managers outsourcing complex tax and accountancy needs and advice
• CEOs looking to engage the services of a specialist consultancy firm
• Heads of human resource departments who outsource complex and time consuming functions such as payroll and facilities management services