Information technology consulting (also called IT consulting) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. In addition to providing advice, IT consultancies often estimate, manage, implement, deploy, and administer IT systems on businesses' behalf.
Overview
The IT consulting industry can be viewed as a Four-tier system:
• Professional services firms which maintain large professional workforces and command high bill rates.
• Staffing firms, which place technologists with businesses on a temporary basis, typically in response to employee absences, temporary skill shortages and technical projects.
• Independent consultants, who are self-employed or who function as employees of staffing firms (for US tax purposes, employed on "W-2"), or as independent contractors in their own right (for US tax purposes, on "1099").
• Information Technology security consultants
There are different reasons why consultants are called in:
• To gain external, objective advice and recommendations
• To gain access to the consultants' specialized expertise
• Temporary help during a one-time project where the hiring of a permanent employee(s) is not required or necessary
• To outsource all or part of the IT services from a specific company
Skills
An IT consultant needs to possess the following skills:
• Advisory skills
• Technical skills
• Business skills
• Communication skills
• Management skills
• Advisory language skills
• Business and management language skills
• Technical language skills
Consulting fees
Under normal circumstances a fee is measured on a per day, per consultant basis. There is however an alternative option; fixed fee IT consulting. A fixed fee IT consulting contract applies only to projects which are well defined, for example:
• Infrastructure refreshment projects
• Network design
• Implementation of specific well described features, such as monitoring platforms
• Infrastructure capacity planning
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