Client-consultant relationship

Among my holiday reading was Russell T Davies’ The Writer's Tale, one of the best books I’ve ever read on the process of writing. It’s a hefty tome, but one comment has lodged in my memory.

If you talk to consultants in Germany one of the post-recession trends they’re most likely to mention is the rise of in-house consulting units in multinational companies. Driven by a desire to build internal skills as much as cut the amount of money spent on consultants, these units pose a genuine threat to consulting firms there.

I know: it goes against the grain to suggest that there should be any space at all.